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Dr Maggie McAlinden

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6909
Email: m.mcalinden@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.107  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-6371

Maggie is a Lecturer at the School of Education. Maggie coordinates and teaches the Postgraduate and Initial Teacher Education Applied Linguistics units at the school of Education. Maggie's research interests include critical perspectives of empathy.

Current teaching

  • LAN6751 TESOL Education Foundations
  • LAN6752 Secondary TESOL Education
  • LAN6271 Teaching ESL Learners
  • LAN6172 ESL Teaching Practice
  • LST6282 Using Language

Professional associations

  • 2020 - Current, Executive Committee Member, West Australian Association of TESOL
  •   2014 - 2021, Executive Committee Member, Association of Academic Language and Learning
  • 2017 - 2019, National President, Academic Language and Learning Association
  • 2014 - 2019, State Representative, Association of Academic Language and Learning
  • 2018 - Current, TESOL International Association

Research areas and interests

  • Intercultural teacher empathy and emotion
  • Intercultural communication
  • Critical pedagogies in intercultural education
  • Critical discourse analysis

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 2013.
  • Certificate in TEFLA, Wales, 1994.
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours in English, Wales, 1994.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Jogulu, U., McAlinden, M. (2023). More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion, and silence at "home". Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (95-108). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317128-9.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Hoang, D., Johnson, N., McAlinden, M. (2022). Students’ Perceptions and Real-Life Use of Mobile Technologies in EFL Learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning: an international journal, 23(3), 186-206.
  • Hoang, D., McAlinden, M., Johnson, N. (2022). Extending a learning ecology with virtual reality mobile technology: oral proficiency outcomes and students’ perceptions. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022(article in press), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2022.2070626.

Book Chapters

  • McAlinden, M., Dobinson, T. (2021). Teacher emotion in emergency online teaching: Ecstasies and agonies. Emergency Remote Teaching and Beyond: Voices from World Language Teachers and Researchers (261-287). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84067-9.

Journal Articles

  • Dobinson, T., McAlinden, M., Mercieca, P., Bogachenko, T. (2021). Finding the familiar in the strange: transcultural learning as rihla رحلة at an Australian university. Higher Education Research and Development, 40(3), 476-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1765317.

Journal Articles

  • Podorova, A., Irvine, S., Kilmister, M., Hewison, R., Janssen, A., Speziali, A., Balavijendran, L., Kek, M., McAlinden, M. (2019). An important, but neglected aspect of learning assistance in higher education: Exploring the digital learning capacity of academic language and learning practitioners. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 16(4), Article no.3.

Journal Articles

  • McAlinden, M. (2018). English Language Teachers’ Conceptions of Intercultural Empathy and Professional Identity: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43(10), 41-59. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.v43.n10.3.

Book Chapters

  • McAlinden, M. (2014). Can teachers know learners' minds? Teacher empathy and learner body language in English language teaching. Critical Perspectives on Language Education: Australia and the Asia Pacific (71-100). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06185-6.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, An Ecological and Transdisciplinary Ethnographic Study of Indonesian TESOL Returnee Lecturer Identity

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Causes of Stress at School: Giving Voice to Students' Lived Experiences

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, An investigation of ICT policy implementation in an EFL teacher education program in Vietnam

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, An exploration of virtual reality to facilitate authentic tasks in EFL learning in a Vietnamese tertiary setting
  • Doctor of Philosophy, An evaluation study of an English for academic purposes program in a Vietnamese university
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