Research initiatives

Languages in Society Research Group

• Intercultural mapping project:
  cross linguistic analyses of language(s) in context
• The Hard News Project (Project Leader: Dr Elizabeth Thomson)

School Literacies Research Group

• The relationship between literacy research and classroom practice (Project Leader: Dr Pauline Harris)
• Key indicators of development in adolescent writing (Project Leaders: Dr Beverly Derewianka and Professor Frances Christie)

Tertiary Literacies Research Group

• Beyond Plagiarism: finding your academic voice (Project Leaders: Dr Ruth Walker and Dr Honglin Chen)
• Self-representation in academic writing (Project Leader: Dr Honglin Chen)
• Pathways to tertiary entrance: a study of IELTS and alternatives (Project Leaders: Dr Honglin Chen and Dr Ken Cruickshank)