National Conference of the
Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association

"Multimodal Texts & Multiliteracies:
Semiotic Theory and Practical Pedagogy"

Faculty of Education,
Health & Professional Studies
University of New England
Armidale NSW Australia

27-29 September 2006

• Welcome
• About the Host
• About Armidale
• Invited Speakers
• Program
• Call for Papers
• Travel Grants
• Registration
 

• Conference Dinner
• Accommodation
• Travel & Transport
• Partners & Sponsors
• General Information
• Important Dates
• Contacts

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Professor Theo van Leeuwen
University of Technology, Sydney
Theo van Leeuwen is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. He has published widely in the areas of social semiotics, critical discourse analysis and multimodality. His latest book is Introducing Social Semiotics (Routledge, 2005). See abstract

Professor Jim Martin
University of Sydney
J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. Publications include Working with Discourse (with David Rose) Continuum, 2003; Re/Reading the Past (Edited with Ruth Wodak) Benjamins, 2003; Negotiating Heteroglossia (a special issue of Text Edited with Mary Macken-Horarik) Mouton de Gruyter, 2003; Language Typology: a functional perspective (Edited with A Caffarel & C Matthiessen) Benjamins 2004; and Interpreting Tragedy: the language of September 11th, , 2001 (a special double issue of Discourse & Society Edited with John Edwards) Sage 2004. He has recently completed a book on evaluation with Peter White (The Language of Evaluation, Palgrave, 2005) and a book on genre (with David Rose, in press with Equinox). Professor Martin was elected a fellow the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003. See abstract

Professor John Stephens
Macquarie University
John Stephens is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where he teaches and supervises postgraduate research in children's literature, as well as other literatures. He is the author of Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction; Retelling Stories, Framing Culture (co-authored with Robyn McCallum); two books about discourse analysis; and around seventy articles about children's (and other) literature. More recently, he has edited Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film. His current research focus is on the impact on children's literature of global shifts in politics and culture since the end of the Cold War. See abstract

Professor Peter Freebody
University of Queensland
Peter Freebody is Professor of Education at the University of Queensland. His research and teaching interests are literacy education, classroom interaction and quantitative and qualitative research methods. His recent books include Schooling the child: the making of students in classrooms (Routledge-Falmer, with Austin and Dwyer), Qualitative Research in Education: Interaction and Practice (Sage), Australian Literacies: Informing national policy on literacy education (Language Australia, with Lo Bianco) and Difference, silence, and textual practice: Studies in critical literacy (Hampton, with Muspratt and Luke). His work has appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, and the American Educational Research Journal. He has served on numerous Australian state and commonwealth advisory groups in the area of literacy education, and is currently the Academic Advisor to the Queensland Minister of Education and the Arts and the national consultant on the Le@rning Federation's on-line literacy program. See abstract

Dr Mary Macken-Horarik
University of Canberra
Dr Mary Macken-Horarik is Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education within the Division of Communication and Education at the University of Canberra. She has worked for many years in the field of English and literacy education as a teacher, curriculum developer and researcher. Mary has published widely in the field of educational linguistics, focussing particularly on classroom applications of systemic functional linguistics. Her recent work focuses on multimodal discourse analysis. She is currently writing a book for English teachers about systemic functional semiotics. See abstract

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Associate Professor Jane Torr
Macquarie University
Jane Torr is an associate professor at the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University. She teaches in the areas of early childhood language, literature and literacy. Her doctoral research consisted of a case study of the grammatical development of a child from 9 months to 2 and a half years, using systemic-functional linguistic theory as the informing framework. Her subsequent research has focused on the relationship between oral language and emergent literacy, and the implications for early childhood policy and practice. The nature and quality of caregiver talk has been a continuous thread through her work. See abstract

Dr Louise Ravelli
University of NSW
Louise Ravelli is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New South Wales. She is interested in the relationship of communication to its social context, and how communication in particular contexts can be improved. Her research includes Museum Communication, both through language and through design, and academic writing. See abstract

Dr Clare Painter
University of NSW
Dr. Clare Painter is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at UNSW, Australia with teaching and research interests in child language and literacy development, children's literature, systemic-functional (SF) discourse analysis and the applications of SF linguistics to educational questions. She has published widely in the areas of language development and educational linguistics and is the author of Learning the mother tongue 2nd ed (Deakin U.P. 1996), Learning through language in early childhood (Continuum 2000) and co-author of Working with Functional Grammar (Arnold 1997). Her current research, in collaboration with JR Martin and Len Unsworth and supported by an ARC Discovery grant, explores inter-image and text-image relations in children's picture books. See abstract

Dr Angela Thomas
University of Sydney
Angela Thomas is a lecturer in English Education at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include young people's digital worlds, online role-playing, virtual identity, digital literature and literacies, and feminism and media studies. Recent publications include: e-Selves, e-Literacies, e-worlds: Children's Identities and Literacies in Virtual Communities (2006); Digital Literacies (2006, with Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel); and Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching (2005, with Len Unsworth, Alyson Simpson and Jennifer Asha). See abstract

Professor Ian Hay
University of New England
Professor Ian Hay of the School of Education, the University of New England has published more than 80 book chapters, refereed journal articles, reports, and other articles in a range of international and national peer review publications. As a chief investigator he has been awarded competitive research funds in excess of a million dollars, and has supervised some 20 higher degree research students. His main research interests are in the domain of students with literacy and academic difficulties, the role of motivation in learning, and students' cognitive development. Before coming to UNE, Professor Ian Hay was A/Professor at the University of Queensland. See abstract

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Registrations Close:

September 15th, 2006

Welcome Reception:

September 26th, 2006

Conference Dates:

September 27th-29th, 2006

Conference Dinner:

September 28th, 2006