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Department of Linguistics

Prof Denise Murray

Denise Murray

Formal name: Denise E. Murray

Position: Visiting Professor

Personal Title: Professor Emeritus

Qualifications: B.A. Queensland University, Cert. Ed. Teachers' College, Brisbane, M.A. (Hons) Macquarie University, PhD Stanford University

Telephone: +61 2 9850 9654

Fax: +61 2 9850 7849

Email: denise.murray@mq.edu.au

Location: W6C 103

Profile

Denise Murray is Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University and at San José State University, California. She was Executive Director of the AMEP Research Centre and of the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR) at Macquarie University from 2000 to 2006.  Prior to her appointment at Macquarie, she was founding Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University for 9 years. For 7 years, she served on the Board of Directors of TESOL, the international professional association for educators in the field of second language learning and teaching. She was President of TESOL in 1996-7.

Denise is a language educator whose research interests centre around computer-assisted language learning; cross-cultural literacy; use of L1 in the second language classroom; intersection of language, society and technology; settlement of adult immigrants; language education policy; and leadership in language education.

Publications

Selected Books

  1. 2008. Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Skills for Changing Times. London: Routledge. (with M.A. Christison). 
  2. Planning Change; Changing Plans: Innovations in Second Language Teaching. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  3. 2005. Navigating to Read: Reading to Navigate. Sydney: NCELTR. (with P. McPherson).
  4. 2005. First Language Support in Adult ESL in Australia. Sydney: NCELTR (with G. Wigglesworth).
  5. 2003. Integrating Citizenship Content in Teaching Adult Immigrants English: An Evaluation of Let’s Participate: A Course in Australian Citizenship. Sydney: NCELTR. 
  6. 1995. Knowledge Machines: Language and Information in a Technological Society.  London:  Longman.
  7. 1991. Conversation for Action:  The Computer Terminal as Medium of Communication.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Selected Articles

  1. 2007. Opening doors: Teachers Learning Through Collaborative Research. Prospect 22 (1) 19-36. (with G. Wigglesworth)
  2. 2006. Scaffolding Instruction for Reading the Web. Language Teaching Research 10, (2), 131-156. (with P. McPherson).
  3. 2005. Technologies for L2 Literacy.  Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 25, 188-201.
  4. 2004. The Multilingual Teacher: Issues for Teacher Education.  Prospect, 19, (2), 3-24.  (with E. Garvey).
  5. 2004. The Language of Cyberspace.  In E. Finegan and J. Rickford (eds.), Language in the USA. (pp. 463-479). Cambridge University Press.
  6. 2003. Changing Clients in the AMEP at the Turn of the 21st Century.  In G. Wigglesworth (ed.), The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: Learner, teacher and researcher perspectives (pp. 19-28).  Sydney: NCELTR.
  7. 2001. Whose 'standard'? What the Ebonics debate tells us about language, power, and pedagogy.  In Alatis, J. E. (ed.), Language in our time: Bilingual education and official English, Ebonics and Standard English, immigration and the Unz Initiative, (pp. 321-334). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
  8. 2000. Protean Communication: The Language of Computer-mediated Communication.  TESOL Quarterly, 34 (3), 397-423.
  9. 2000. Changing Technologies, Changing Literacy Communities?  Language, Learning and Technology, 4 (2), 43-58. 
  10. 1998. Ebonics--A Case Study in Language, Power, and Pedagogy.  TESOL Quarterly, 32 (1), 144-6. 
  11. 1996. The Tapestry of Diversity in Our Classrooms.  In K. M. Bailey and D. Nunan (eds.), Voices and Viewpoints: Qualitative Research in Second Language Education (pp. 434-448).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  12. 1992. Unlimited Resources:  Learners' Language, Culture, and Thought.  In Denise E. Murray (ed.). Diversity as Resource: Redefining Cultural Literacy (pp. 259-274).  Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
  13. 1991. Computer Conversation: Adapting the Composing Process to Conversation. Written Communication, 8 (1), 35-55.
  14. 1988. The Context of Oral and Written Language:  A Framework for Mode and Medium Switching.  Language in Society, 17 (3), 351-373.
  15. 1988. Computer-mediated Communication:  Implications for ESP.  English for Specific Purposes, 7, 3-18.

 

 

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