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Dr Susan Feez

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education

Qualifications

PhD (Syd); MEd: Language in Education (Syd); Dip Ed: Infants/Primary (Armidale CAE); Dip Ed: TESOL (Latrobe); BA (Qld)

Contact

Email:
Room: Milton Building (E6) 45
Phone: 02 6773 2920 (or +61 2 6773 2920 overseas)

Susan Feez is a member of the English, Literacies and Languages Education (ELLE) team in the School of Education at UNE. Within this group, she specialises in English language and literacy education and educational lingustics. She is a member of the Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies Education (CREME). Susan also has expertise in the field of Montessori education.

Specialist Training

Certificate in Adult TESOL (ACL, Sydney)
Diploma in Montessori Elementary Education (Association Montessori Internationale, Bergamo, Italy)
Diploma in Montessori Early Childhood Education (Sydney Montessori Teachers’ College)

Affiliations

Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association  (ASFLA)
Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA
PETAA – Primary English Teaching Association of Australia
Association for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ATESOL NSW)
Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA)
Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)

Research interests

Language and literacies development
Language and literacies pedagogy and assessment
Literacy demands of the curriculum, including multiliteracies
Multimodal representations of curriculum knowledge
Applications of social semiotics, systemic-functional linguistics and the sociology of pedagogy in education
Montessori education
TESOL

Publications

Publications