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Meeta’s areas of interest include literature, linguistics and English language teaching.
'Humour in Indian Writing in English: Three novels by women writers: Namita Gokhale, Suniti Namjoshi and Arundhati Roy' was the title of her Masters (Hons) thesis. She is currently doing her Doctorate in TESOL from the University of Wollongong. Her thesis will investigate ways in which non-native speakers develop writing skills; mechanisms/strategies that they deploy to avoid plagiarism and what helps them to become competent academic writers.
Meeta trained as an EFL/ESL teacher. In a career spanning more than twenty years she has taught English language and literacy in India, the Middle East, Australia and briefly in China. She has designed and delivered courses in English For Academic Purposes and English language and academic literacy courses for a range of subjects in different disciplines. Since her employment in Learning Development, she has been involved in language and literacy support in the following subjects:
ACCY 901 (Parallel tutorials in language)
BUS FIN 921 (Writing case studies)
BUS 905 (Making Oral Presentations)
ECTE 953 (Writing Reports, Avoiding Plagiarism)
ECTE 955 (Writing Reports, Avoiding Plagiarism)
ECTE 991 (Writing Reports, Avoiding Plagiarism)
CSCI102 (Reading Critically)
IACT 201 (Reading Critically)
EDGT 983/985 (Reading Critically, Writing Critical Reviews)
NURS100 (Critical Reading, Note taking, Essay Writing)
Other than the Faculty integrated work, she enables international postgraduate and undergraduate students develop their academic language and literacy skills by preparing customised programs for them and provides tutorial support with literacy and language aspects of their work. She holds workshops on Grammar, Pronunciation, Conversation, Essay Writing for different student groups. She is also involved in the co-ordination of the Learning Resource Centre and is currently on the FEC of the Faculty of Education.
Conferences
2003: What's in a name? Class Acts of Colonisation or Global Best Practice?’16th EA Conference, Melbourne, Available online from here.
2004: A Staple EAP (English For Academic Purposes) diet: Is it Satisfying? 17th EA Education Conference, Conference Theme: English in Australia? What’s on the Menu? October, Adelaide.
2004: ‘Exploring humour in three novels by Indian Women Writers with a feminist survival kit and in Bakhtinian glasses’. Seventh International Conference organised by Forum on Contemporary Theory.
Publication
Book Chapter: ‘When Women Laugh: Humour in Namita Gokhale, Suniti Namjoshi and Arundhati Roy’ in Desert in Bloom: Contemporary Indian Women’s Fiction, 2004, Edited by Meenakshi Bharat, Pencraft International, Delhi. Pages: 121-142, IBSN81-85753-59-8.
‘What's in a name? Class Acts of Colonisation or Global Best Practice?’16th EA Conference, Melbourne, Available online from here.
Areas of interest
Academic and critical literacy; Discourse Analysis; English language teaching and learning, English For Academic Purposes; English For Specific Purposes; Applied Linguistics; postcolonial theories and literatures; theories of humour; poetry and Indian Literature.
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