Dr Alex Garcia Marrugo
Alexandra García is the Learning Hub Lead for Academic Language and Learning at CET + Learning Hub. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, a Master of Teaching from Western Sydney University, a Master of Arts in Language Teaching and Learning from the University of Liverpool in the UK and a Bachelor of Education from the Universidad del Atlántico in Colombia. Her research interests include language and ideology, systemic functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, academic literacy and online learning.
Her research interests include the study of language and ideology in politics and the media. She is currently researching the ideologies behind the representation of war in International Humanitary Law and Reports from the Truth Commision on the Colombian conflict.
She approaches the study of language from a theoretical framework based on Systemic Functional Linguistics combined with Corpus Linguistics methods.
Alexandra García is a Senior Lecturer (Education Focussed). She leads the provision of academic language development offerings from first year to HDR. This includes cross-disciplinary workshops, and discipline-specific resources developed in collaboration with Faculty in different modalities: online and Face-to-Face, and synchronous and asynchronous.
She is currently supervising two PhD students. One is investigating the representation of First Nations Peoples in the Australian press and the other is investigating the representation of women who commit crimes in the Chilean press.
- Obstacles and enablers of uptake of Academic Language support.
- Ideologies of war in International Humanitarian Law
- Towards a better comprehension of the armed conflict, the victims and the recent history of Colombia.
- ASFLA – Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- AALL – Association for Academic Language and Learning
- Sydney Corpus Lab
- PIEoneer award in Student Support
- Vice-Chancellor Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning 2023
- Colfuturo – Chevening Award Scholarship – British Council
- International Postgraduate Research Scholarship- Macquarie University
- Vice Chancellor Excellence Award on Teaching and Learning
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Women, Crime and Motherhood: women involved in crime in Chilean news discourse | Claudia CASTRO ACUNA |
Publications
Books
- Garcia, A. (2008). Technology, Environment and Progress: Exercises on Critical Reading through Systemic Functional Linguistics. Universidad del Norte: Barranquilla: Ediciones Uninorte.
Book Chapters
- Garcia, A. (2012). Measuring Ideology in Texts: Using Quantifiable Tools in CDA. In Ghitsaki, C. & Baldouf, R. (Eds.) (Eds.), Future Directions In Applied Linguistics, (pp. 292-310). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journals
- Xia, Y., Huan, C., Garcia, A. (2024). Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China. Social Semiotics. [More Information]
- Lukin, A., Garcia, A. (2024). War in law: A corpus linguistic study of the lexical item war in the laws of war. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 4(1). [More Information]
- Garcia, A., Olston, K., Aarts, J., Moore, D., Kaliyadan, S. (2023). SCANA: Supporting students’ academic language development at the University of Sydney. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, 31(2), 102-108. [More Information]
Edited Journals
- Garcia, A., Crosthwaite, P., Bednarek, M. (2020). Special Issue: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2).
2024
- Xia, Y., Huan, C., Garcia, A. (2024). Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China. Social Semiotics. [More Information]
- Lukin, A., Garcia, A. (2024). War in law: A corpus linguistic study of the lexical item war in the laws of war. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 4(1). [More Information]
2023
- Garcia, A., Olston, K., Aarts, J., Moore, D., Kaliyadan, S. (2023). SCANA: Supporting students’ academic language development at the University of Sydney. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, 31(2), 102-108. [More Information]
- Lukin, A., Garcia, A. (2023). The International Laws of War: Linguistic Analysis from the Perspectives of Register, Corpus and Grammatical Patterning. Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. [More Information]
2021
- Garcia, A. (2021). Review of Young, Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald (2018): The power of language: How discourse influences society. Language, Context and Text, 3(2), 388-391. [More Information]
- Garcia, A. (2021). Victims' voice and representation in the Colombian press: 'Dead of a Lesser God'. Discourse and Communication, 15(3), 260-280. [More Information]
2020
- Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116. [More Information]
- Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Editorial: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116.
- Garcia, A. (2020). La legitimacion de la violencia: ideologias latentes en el conflicto colombiano desde una perspectiva discursive. Desde el Jardin de Freud, 20, 437-451. [More Information]
2019
- Garcia, A. (2019). An exploratory account of the register of nursing textbooks. Can you nurse from them? Language, Context and Text, 1(1), 39-64. [More Information]
2018
- Garcia, A. (2018). Going digital: Challenges and opportunities in transforming face to face ALL workshops into online versions. Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 12(1), A115-A127.
2017
- Garcia, A. (2017). 'On the grammar of death': the construal of death and killing in Colombian newspapers. Functional Linguistics, 4(10), 1-17. [More Information]
2016
- Garcia, A. (2016). New Wars, New Media and New Journalism: Professional Challenges in Conflict Reporting by Stig A. Nohrstedt & Rune Ottosen. Discourse and Communication, 10(5), 548-549.
2013
- Garcia, A. (2013). 'What's in a name?': The representation of the illegal actors in the internal conflict in the Colombian press. Discourse and Society, 46(81), 421-445. [More Information]
- Garcia, A. (2013). Construing experience in Spanish: Revisiting a Systemic Functional Description of Nuclear Transitivity. Revista Signos: estudios de lengua y literatura, 46(81).
- García, A. (2013). Construing experience in spanish: Revisiting a systemic functional description of spanish nuclear transitivity. Revista Signos: estudios de lengua y literatura, 46(81), 29-55. [More Information]
2012
- Garcia, A. (2012). Measuring Ideology in Texts: Using Quantifiable Tools in CDA. In Ghitsaki, C. & Baldouf, R. (Eds.) (Eds.), Future Directions In Applied Linguistics, (pp. 292-310). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2008
- Garcia, A. (2008). 'As hard as it gets': A preliminary analysis of hard news reports of the internal conflict in the Colombian press. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(1), 5-30.
- Garcia, A. (2008). Lexical semantics as a tool for developing critical reading in the language classroom. Latin American Journal of Content & Language Integrated Learning, 1(1), 66-76.
- Garcia, A. (2008). Removing the veil: Developing critical reading skills through Systemic Functional Linguistics. Zona Proxima, 9, 28-45.
Selected Grants
2017
- Recognising culture and developing academic potential in Singapore nursing students., Bloomfield J, James B, Green J, Ridgway G, Harvey A, Garcia A, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2016
- Writing a literature review (Open Learning Environment - HDR), Garcia A, Harrison M, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
In the media
- Le Monde Diplomatique. Pourquois les Colombiens ont rejeté la Paix.
- Las 2 orillas. De porqué odiamos a las Farc (y no tanto a los paras)