Mark Conroy
PhD Student
School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BSc (UNSW), MAppLing (Macquarie), MPhil (Macquarie),
CTEFLA (RSA/Cambridge)
Contact
Email: mconroy@une.edu.au
Room: 114, Arts E11
Phone: 02 6773 3517 (or +61-2-67733517 overseas)
Homepage: http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~mconroy
Mark has a background in teaching English as a second language. He has taught and managed English language programs in Australia: at TAFE from 1994 to 2003, and at universities from 2004 to 2008. He has also taught university foundation level English literacy, and has worked as a language and study skills adviser to university students.
Research interests
Second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, second language pedagogy, L2 sentence-production, computer-assisted language learning.
Current Thesis Topic/Program
Mark is currently researching structural priming as a means of second language learning.
Selected Publications
Journal articles
Conroy, M., & Cupples, L., 2010. We could have loved and lost, or we never could have love at all: Syntactic misanalysis in L2 sentence processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32(4),523-552.
Conroy, M. A., 2010. Internet tools for language learning: Second language university students taking control of their writing. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(6), 861-882
Conference Presentations
Conroy, M., 2011. A new look at the effectiveness of structural drills in language teaching. 2011 International Conference on EFL Education – Tradition and innovation, 28 May, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Conroy, M., 2011. Structural priming research: implications for a second language acquisition and pedagogy. Doing research in Applied Linguistics, 21-22 April, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok
Conroy, M., 2009. Implicit language learning through syntactic priming. HCSNet Workshop: Tools and Techniques for Conducting EEG and MEG Experiments. http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/eegmeg09. 8–9 August, University of Queensland.
Conroy, M., 2008. Internet Based Language Tools: Enabling English as an Additional Language University Students to Take Control of their Writing. Language Issues in English-medium Universities: A Global Concern. 18-20 June, Hong Kong University.
Conroy, M., 2007. Some speculation about English modal perfect. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. 12–14 April, University of Auckland.
Conroy, M., Cupples, L., Tent, J., 2006. Production and processing of English modal perfect sentences by native and advanced non-native speakers. Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface, Interpretation, Interdisciplinarity. 20–22 September, Macquarie University.
Unpublished Reports
Conroy, M., 2007. English Language Proficiency Report. University of South Australia, pp108.
Links
AusTalk: An audi-visual corpus of Australian English.