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Dr Mutuota Kigotho

Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education

Qualifications

BEd (University of Nairobi, Kenya), MEd (Kenyatta University, Kenya), EdD (Macquarie University)

Contact

Email:
Room: FEHPS (E7) 242
Phone: 02 6773 3829 (or +61 2 6773 3829 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3878

Mutuota specializes in English and Literacy Education and is a member of the Centre of Research in English and Multiliteracies (CREME).

Affiliations

ETA - English Teachers Association
ALEA - Australian Literacy Educators’ Association
ODLAA - National Secretary, Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia
ASFLA - Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association

Areas of Teaching

Literacy Education

Secondary English

Research interests

Distance Education and eLearning
Other interests include.....
Uptake in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in African Educational systems
Social Media: The use of ICT for Educational purposes.

Research Publications

Literacy: From recount to writing in true narrative (Conference publications 2007).

From implicit to explicit: Literacy and the oral narrative within ESL Classrooms (Conference publications 2006).

The teaching of narratives (Conference publications 2004).

Doctoral Thesis: The Structure of Kikuyu Oral Narratives and its Relationship to the Teaching of Writing in Kenyan Secondary Schools (2004).