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      Dr Anne Thwaite

Dr Anne Thwaite

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6138
Email: a.thwaite@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML16.122  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0165-7437

Dr Anne Thwaite is a Lecturer in Language Education in the School of Education.

Background

With degrees in English and Linguistics from the University of Sydney, she has taught at the Universities of Sydney, Western Sydney and New England in Australia, as well as at tertiary level in Singapore, China, Seychelles and Vietnam.

Her current research deals with educational linguistics, spoken discourse analysis and teacher knowledge about language (KAL). She has recently published on Halliday’s theory of child language development (2019), classroom discourse analysis (with Pauline Jones & Alyson Simpson 2018, 2020) and assignment prompts for academic writing (with colleagues at ECU, 2021). She is currently working on a proposal for an edited book on dialogic classroom discourse with colleagues Pauline Jones (University of Wollongong) and Alyson Simpson (University of Sydney).

Anne has supervised six HDR (Higher Degree by Research) students to completion. She has studied French, Finnish, Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish, and is currently learning Vietnamese.

Professional associations

  • 1994 - Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA)
  • 1994 - Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
  • 1994 - Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)

Research areas and interests

  • Language in education
  • Knowledge about language (KAL)
  • Discourse analysis.

Qualifications

  • PhD, The University of Sydney.
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours, The University of Sydney, 1984.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Thwaite, A. (2023). Classroom discourse analysis. Dialogic Pedagogy Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University (17-32). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296744-3.
  • Simpson, A., Thwaite, A., Jones, P. (2023). Research into dialogic pedagogy through the lens of educational linguistics. Dialogic Pedagogy: Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University (3-16). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296744-2.
  • Thwaite, A. (2023). "We’re going to do it together": Dialogic discourse with young children in Western Australia. Dialogic Pedagogy Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University (69-88). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296744-7.

Journal Articles

2022

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A., Adam, H., Urquhart, Y., Hill, S. (2022). Introduction of Phonological Concepts in an Initial Teacher Education Literacy Unit. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 47(1), 30-48. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2022v47n1.3.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A., Budgen, F., Hunter, J., Singh, K. (2021). What is complexity? Grammatical issues in assignment prompts. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 52(July 2021), Article number 100998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2021.100998.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A., Jones, P., Simpson, A. (2020). Enacting dialogic pedagogy in primary literacy classrooms: Insights from systemic functional linguistics. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 43(1), 33-46.

2019

Journal Articles

2018

Book Chapters

  • Thwaite, A. (2018). Talking about Language in a Diverse Urban Community. Talking the Talk: Snapshots from Australian Classrooms (63-74). Primary English Teaching Association.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2015). Using the Multimodal Analysis Video Program for Register Analysis: A Preliminary Study. TESOL International, 10(1), 110-125.
  • Thwaite, A. (2015). Pre-service teachers linking their metalinguistic knowledge to their practice: a functional approach. Functional Linguistics, 2(4), 17p.. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40554-015-0019-4.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2014). Teachers and teacher aides initiating five-year-olds into science. Functional Linguistics, 1(6), online. https://doi.org/10.1186/2196-419X-1-6.
  • Thwaite, A. (2014). Exploring Critical Literacy with Pre-Service Teachers: An example from Australia. Entreletras, 5(2), 194-211.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A., McKay, G. (2013). Five year olds doing science and technology: How teachers shape the conversation. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 36(1), 28-37.

2009

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A., Rivalland, J. (2009). How can analysis of classroom talk help teachers reflect on their practices?. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 32(1), 38-54.

2008

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2008). Literacy skills of Bachelor of Education (Primary) students. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 31(2), 1-15.

2007

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2007). Inclusive and empowering discourse in an early childhood literacy classroom with Indigenous students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 36(2007), 21-31.

2006

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2006). Genre writing in Primary School. Australian Journal of Language & Literacy, 29(2), 95-114.

2004

Journal Articles

  • Thwaite, A. (2004). Classroom discourse of an experienced teacher of Indigenous children. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 27(2), 75-91.

2002

Journal Articles

  • Brown, C., Chadbourne, R., Thwaite, A. (2002). Sell the sizzle,not the steak: Portfolio process or portfolio product.. Interpretations, 35(1), 33-45.

2001

Journal Articles

  • Hird, B., Milton, M., Oliver, R., Thwaite, A., Breen, M. (2001). Making sense of language teaching: teacher's principles and classroom practices. Applied Linguistics, 22, 470-501.
  • Chadbourne, R., Brown, C., Thwaite, A. (2001). Level 3 portfolios some comparisions with the U S A. Interpretations, 34, 21-29.

Research Projects

  • The Identification of Resources to Support Children Learning to Read in the Early Years of School, Department of Education and Training WA, Grant, 2007 ‑ 2008, $47,185.
  • The Identification of Resources to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development, Department of Education and Training WA, Grant, 2007, $47,185.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, West African families' experiences and perspectives regarding the Australian education system: An ethnographic study in Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Determining factors in first-year university student uptake of English language support programs at one Australian university

Co-principal Supervisor

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

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Teacher agency and the enactment of curriculum: The case of primary school EFL teachers in Vietnam
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Digital representation for assessment of spoken EFL at university level: A case study in Vietnam
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Interactive multimedia (IMM), readling, learing difficulties.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Student English achievement, attitude and behaviour in bilingual and monolingual schools in aceh, Indonesia
  • Master of Education, Teachers' perspectives on the identification of, and provisions for, gifted and talented English as an additional language students
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