BA (UNSW) DipEd(UNSW) GradDip AdEd (UTS) MA TESOL (UTS) M Ed (UTS) PhD (CDU)

Senior Lecturer
Academic area: Language and Literacy

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3744
Email: Jacquie.Widin@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.544
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Jacquie Widin is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Language and Literacy programs in the faculty. She has coordinated the initial adult teacher training (Grad Dip TESOL) and is currently coordinating the Professional Practice program. Jacquie has worked in Laos, Japan and Vietnam and has research interests in the internationalisation of education, in particular university run, off-shore English language teaching projects.

Teaching Areas:
Jacquie teaches in the TESOL and Literacy and Numeracy programs, her key interests are in teaching spoken and written language and professional practice.

Research Areas:
Jacquie has undertaken research in the areas of language and literacy education, internationalisation of education, community health education and Indigenous education

During 2000 - 2007, Jacquie Widin has been involved in a community based research project (with Keiko Yasukawa, Jennifer Newman, Heidi Norman, Andrew Chodkiewicz, Anne Ndaba and others) with a local community school. This project included the establishment of a MoU with the school which will provide opportunities for on-going collaborations. During 2003 - 2005 the project was funded by the Telstra Community Development Funding scheme to focus on developing school community partnerships in an Indigenous school community.

Jacquie has recently completed (with Andrew Chodkiewicz and Keiko Yasukawa) a research project that investigated teaching practices in adult literacy and numeracy. The project produced a DVD (and an accompanying handbook) containing four case studies of teachers in different teaching contexts.

Jacquie is a member of the key professional peak bodies and an active member of the NTEU.

Publications:

Invited contributions
Kelly, S. and Widin, J., 2000, What Teachers Want to Know about Teaching Reading  Literacy Broadsheet, No. 51 (invited contribution)
Slade, D., and Widin, J., 2004, Teaching Spoken English in the Secondary School Classroom, The National Federation of the Prefectural English Teachers’ Organisation  Annual Journal, Japan.

Refereed Journal articles
Chodkiewicz, A., Widin, J. and Yasukawa, K., 2008, Engaging Aboriginal Families to Support Student and Community Learning, Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education: An International Journal, Vol.2, No.1

Professional Journals
Widin, J., 2005, Retaining a community school: the struggle to establish Alexandria Park Community School, an interview with Terry Denzil, Education Links, no.69, Spring (invited contribution).
Widin, J.  and Yasukawa, K., 2005, Editorial, Education Links, no.69, Spring. (invited contribution)

Books
Widin, J., (forthcoming), The Internationalisation of English Language Education: in whose interests?, London: Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications