Engaging with Australasia: Comparative Research on ELT and English Teacher Education

The book showcases collaborative intercultural research into English language teaching and English language teacher education across Australasia covering a broad range of topics from English education policies, curricular reform and practices, teacher professional development, and teacher and student identities. Together, the selected studies showcase how, in the shadow of the Pandemic, newer configurations in developing Asian and South-East Asian countries have complicated collaboration in teaching and research and how these contrast with practices in Australia. In particular, the studies highlight the need for both cultural and pedagogical adaptations in practitioners’ engagement with both policy and pedagogy. The book finds interested readership among emerging educators including graduate and doctoral researchers, as well as educators and policymakers.

Dr. Raqib Chowdhury is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia, and Senior Fellow of the Advance HE, UK. He taught at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1996 to 2004 and then in the Monash Faculty of Education since 2009. Raqib researches in the areas of TESOL and languages education, culture and pedagogy, international education, and social justice. His publications include 6 books, including his latest, The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2021).

Dr. Huỳnh Anh Tuấn is Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Languages and International Studies (ULIS), VNU, Hanoi. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, the UK, and served as ULIS Head of Academic Research from 2012 to 2014. Tuan has published books and journal articles on English information structure, critical discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, theories of grammar, and language testing and assessment. One of his publications is English Information Structure: Theory and Practice (VNU Publisher, 2018). Tuan was Contributor to the development of the Vietnamese Standardised Test of English Proficiency (VSTEP).