Formal name: Peter Roger

Position: Lecturer

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: MB BS (Hons), Ph.D (Sydney)

Telephone: +61 2 9850 9650

Email: Peter.Roger@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 502

Web Pages: Selected Publications

Profile

Peter Roger has taught in the Linguistics Department and the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research at Macquarie University since 1995. Prior to this, he worked as a medical doctor at the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, where he became interested in the assessment and rehabilitation of aphasia in linguistically diverse settings. He decided to pursue research in this area, and subsequently completed a Ph.D thesis on the topic of Linguistic Diversity and the Assessment of Aphasia.

For a number of years, Peter conducted a 'Medical English Program' for medical students from language backgrounds other than English, under the auspices of the Faculty of Medicine and the English Support Unit at the University of New South Wales. Since joining Macquarie University, Peter has taught undergraduate and postgraduate English for Academic Purposes, and has participated in the teaching of several units of the Master of Applied Linguistics program. He is currently convening LING 912 (Second Language Acquisition), and teaches on a number of other units, including LING 928 (Bilingualism), SPH 802 (Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders) and SPH 807 (Neurosciences for Speech Pathology).

Peter's research interests include interpreter-mediated interactions in health care settings, bilingual aphasia and the assessment of adult language disorders in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity, English for Specific Purposes and individual differences in second language acquisition.