Research Supervisor Connect
Bronwen Dyson is a Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Writing in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She has extensive experience teaching Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, academic/thesis writing and pedagogy in universities, including Macquarie and Western Sydney. She has also taught English as a Second Language in adult education and secondary schools.
Bronwen's research focuses on the learning and teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL). The major strand of her research adopts Processability Theory, a cognitive theory of Second Language Acquisition. From this viewpoint, some of the key questions which Bronwen’s research has examined are: How do learners acquire the grammar of English? How do they vary within the process? How can teaching and feedback guide the process of acquisition? How similar (or different) are the acquisition of speaking and the acquisition of writing? Is the process of language development reflected in language loss? From a socio-cognitive perspective, she has also examined questions specifically relating to writing, including: Can criteria for writing improve written development? How similar and different are supervisor and writing advisor feedback?
English and Writing, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3051