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JOURNAL OF SECOND
LANGUAGE WRITING,
6 (2), 328 (1997)
Authors Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor of Language Education and Director of the Centre for International English at Curtin University, in Perth, Western Australia. He has taught in the fields of ELT and Applied Linguistics in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Myanmar and the UK. He has a postgraduate degree in Chinese literature from Fudan University (Shanghai), and he has been a visiting fellow at Beijing University. His Ph.D is in Applied Chinese Linguistics. His research interests also include contrastive language teaching and learning styles and the development of varieties of English within the East Asian region. Marcia Pally teaches at the City University of New York-Kingsborough and has been a film critic and columnist of social and political satire in the U.S. and Europe for the past 16 years. She is the author of two books on censorship and freedom of expression, Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor (1994) and Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires (1991). She is finishing a textbook which uses film studies to develop critical thinking and writing in the ESL classroom. Melinda Reichelt is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo, where she teaches ESL writing, TESL, and linguistics courses. She undertook this research with the support of a Fullbright Dissertation Fellowship. Neomy Starch is a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the ESL Program at the University of Melbourne. She is currently undertaking a Ph.D in Applied Linguistics and has published in the field of grammar instruction for adult second language learners. Joanna Tapper is a Lecturer in Communications Skills at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Ph.D in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English and her research interests include the oral discourse of practical science labs and workplace communications.
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LANGUAGE WRITING,
6 (2), 328 (1997)
Authors Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor of Language Education and Director of the Centre for International English at Curtin University, in Perth, Western Australia. He has taught in the fields of ELT and Applied Linguistics in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Myanmar and the UK. He has a postgraduate degree in Chinese literature from Fudan University (Shanghai), and he has been a visiting fellow at Beijing University. His Ph.D is in Applied Chinese Linguistics. His research interests also include contrastive language teaching and learning styles and the development of varieties of English within the East Asian region. Marcia Pally teaches at the City University of New York-Kingsborough and has been a film critic and columnist of social and political satire in the U.S. and Europe for the past 16 years. She is the author of two books on censorship and freedom of expression, Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor (1994) and Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires (1991). She is finishing a textbook which uses film studies to develop critical thinking and writing in the ESL classroom. Melinda Reichelt is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo, where she teaches ESL writing, TESL, and linguistics courses. She undertook this research with the support of a Fullbright Dissertation Fellowship. Neomy Starch is a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the ESL Program at the University of Melbourne. She is currently undertaking a Ph.D in Applied Linguistics and has published in the field of grammar instruction for adult second language learners. Joanna Tapper is a Lecturer in Communications Skills at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Ph.D in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English and her research interests include the oral discourse of practical science labs and workplace communications.
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