Systemic Functional Linguistics & Social Semiotics
Multimodal digital literacy education
Paralanguage (Body language, Gesture, Facial Expression and Voice Quality)
Children’s literature
My Grants
ACU Teaching Development Grant (2019-2020)
Topic: Visualising multimodal literacy teaching pedagogy in real school contexts
Explorance Faculty Research Grant (2021)
Topic: Enhancing learner satisfaction with challenging pedagogical content through student-feedback-based course redesign.
My Qualifications
Ph.D, Education Linguistics (University of New England, Australia)
Topic: Deployment of evaluative language in...view more
My Grants
ACU Teaching Development Grant (2019-2020)
Topic: Visualising multimodal literacy teaching pedagogy in real school contexts
Explorance Faculty Research Grant (2021)
Topic: Enhancing learner satisfaction with challenging pedagogical content through student-feedback-based course redesign.
My Qualifications
Ph.D, Education Linguistics (University of New England, Australia)
Topic: Deployment of evaluative language in English and Vietnamese spoken discourse
M.Ed, TESOL (University of Sydney, Australia)
Topic: Text-based and text-free English pronunciation by Vietnamese EFL students: an intelligibility approach.
My Awards
- ACU, Teaching Citation Award (2021)
- ACU, Faculty of Education and Arts, Teaching Excellence Award (2020)
My Research Activities
Ngo, T., & Unsworth, L. (forthcoming). Digital Multimodal Adaptations of Children’s Literature: Semiotic Analyses and Classroom Applications: Routledge.
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
- Systemic Functional Linguistics, e.g. evaluative language, emotional meaning making resources, meaning and expressions of meaning in different languages etc.
- Social Semiotics, e.g. static and moving images, paralanguage, film music and sounds
- Paralanguage, i.e. gesture, body language, facial expression, voice quality in Performing Arts and Teaching
- Multimodal Digital Literacy education, e.g. teaching reading viewing of multimodal texts, images, screen-based texts
- Children's Multimodal Digital Literature Adaptation, eg. semiotic comparative studies between an original literary work and its filmic adaptation, linguistic realisations of literature elements and devices.
- Film studies in Language Arts/English education, e.g. semiotics of film techniques, literary effects in films
- Gifted & Talented Literacy education, e.g. extended Gifted students's creative writing
- TESOL subject content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge (e.g. curriculum design, teaching and assessment)
My Teaching
Primary Literacy education
TESOL education
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