Dr Marie Stevenson
Thesis Proposal Coordinator
Marie Stevenson is an applied linguist and educationalist whose main fields of expertise are literacy and language teaching. She has researched and written on a wide range of topics within these fields, including second language writing, academic literacy, literacy and technology, and teacher discourse. She has a keen interest in issues surrounding literacy and language education of both foreign language learners and migrants.
Writing, particularly in a second language
She is interested in writing from a wide variety of perspectives, and is particularly interested in how cognitive, linguistic and social perspectives on writing can be integrated.
Literacy and technology
She is interested in the critical examination of the use of technologies to develop literacy.
Discourse
She is interested in language use in written and spoken texts, and in the Discourses underlying this language use.
Equity and social justice
She is interested in issues surrounding equity and social justice in language and literacy policy and education, particularly in relation to migrants and refugees.
She is interested in supervision in the areas of:
* Writing, particularly in a second language
* Discourse and language use
* Literacy and technology
* Social justice in language and literacy policy and education
Current supervisions
She is currently supervising the following PhD projects:
Mazin Yousif: Teacher written feedback and student revision: A socio-cognitive perspective
Itsa Moonthiya: Teacher identity in the making: Experiences of non-English-dominant multilingual teachers in a TESOL teacher education program
Olga Mhilli: ESL students transitioning from High School Preparation to High School: Authorial voice in writing
* Developing a framework for writing that integrates cognitive, linguistic and social perspectives
* Critically examining cogntive and social aspects of digital technologies designed to develop literacy
* Cultural competence in language teacher education
Sweden | (University of Umea, Sweden. Professor Eva Lindgren.) Ongoing research collaboration. Current project is on language and literacy policy in UN, EU and African Union. |
United Kingdom | (University of Winchester) Co-edited book, "Transitions in Writing" with Professor Krystan Spelman Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology |
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Teacher identity in the making: A case study of trainee English language teachers of non-English-speaking background | Itsa MOONTHIYA |
Selected publications
(Brill, 2018)
(University of Michigan Press, 2009)
Selected Grants
2013
- Bridging Socio-cultural Incongruity in the Education Curriculum, Stevenson M, James B, Department of Education (NSW)/Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme (HEPPP)
2006
- On-line processes in second language academic writing, Stevenson M, University of Sydney/Early Career Researcher
- Research synthesis on automated feedback on academic writing, Paltridge B, Phakiti A, Stevenson M, Woodrow L, Education Testing Service/TOEFL Grant