Formal name: Stephen H Moore

Position: Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BA UVic., M App Ling Macq., PhD Macq.

Telephone: +61 2 9850 8742

Fax: +61 2 9850 9199

Email: Stephen.Moore@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 503

Web Pages: Selected Publications

Profile

Stephen Moore has worked in the fields of English language teaching and TESOL / Applied Linguistics teacher education for nearly twenty years, and has lived and taught in Japan, Cambodia and Vietnam. His interest in critical linguistics led to Master’s and PhD research on the language of The Economist magazine and issues of power, ideology and point of view. He worked as a senior researcher in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Research Centre prior to formally joining the Department of Linguistics in 2006. He co-convenes the postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Master of Applied Linguistics programs.

Stephen also convenes and teaches LING 904 (Pragmatics), LING 944 (Current Issues in Language Testing and Evaluation) and LING 978 (Discourse Analysis) and also teaches on LING 906 (Language Testing and Evaluation), and LING 925 (Languages for Specific Purposes). He supervises a number of doctoral students principally investigating TESOL-related topics ranging from teacher and learner identities to assessment and evaluation issues.

Stephen is currently researching English in Cambodia; the academic writing of applied linguistics postgraduate students; and the English language growth of international students in Australia (ALTC-funded research). He is an editorial board member of several journals and is an advisor to CamTESOL in Cambodia (www.CamTESOL.org). He is also a member of the Linguistics Department’s Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) Research Centre. and the Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL).