Formal name: John McAndrew

Position: Honorary Lecturer

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BSc ULon., RSA Cert. TESOL UNSW, MAppLing Macq., PhD Macq.

Web Pages: Selected publications

Profile

Dr McAndrew has been a Lecturer with the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie since 2003. Previous to coming to Macquarie, Dr McAndrew worked as a teacher and researcher in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), living and working in Japan, South Korea and Columbia.

Dr McAndrew convenes postgraduate programs in Applied Linguistics and Communication in Professions and Organisations. These include LING937 TESOL in context (Distance mode), LING938 Curriculum innovation in language teaching (Distance mode) and LING948 Evaluating communication systems, processes and products (Distance mode and on-campus). Dr McAndrew attained his Masters in Applied Linguistics (1998) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (2001) at Macquarie University.

Dr McAndrew’s research is ongoing in the broad areas of TESOL, ideology and online learning. Currently this includes the co-writing of the book Focus on discourse, which discusses the implications of a discourse-based approach to pedagogy; the writing of the book Analysing ideology, which explores the relevance of intertextuality, heteroglossia and systemic functional linguistics to the analysis of ideology; and joint research into instability in online learning environments with the Centre for Studies in Educational Technology (CSET) in The Open University, England.