BA (Hons), PhD (UNSW), MA (Concordia), MLS (McG), MA (Hons) (Syd), DipEd (Syd Tech Coll), DipLib (Lond), GradDipEdStudESL (W’gong) RSA, CertTEFL, GradDip (International Studies, UTS)

Senior Lecturer
Academic area: Education and Creative Arts

Telephone: +61 2 9514 5255
Email: Lesley.Ljungdahl@uts.edu.au
Room: K2.419
Campus: Kuring-gai

Dr Ljungdahl has taught in London, Australia and in Canada and has presented papers in the area of ESOL at conferences in Baltimore (1994), California (1995), Chicago (1996) and New York (1998). Her main areas of interest are in TESOL, TEFL and language/learning related issues. Her current research interests are in international studies with a focus on China.

Lesley is a past-president of ATESOL (NSW), the Association for Teachers of English as a Second or Other Languages. From 1989-1995 she was the Director of the Student Learning Centre on the Kuring-gai Campus of UTS.

As a member of CREA, the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, she has given courses in creative writing.

She has presented papers at conferences in Beijing, London, Havana and Granada (2004). she has been a Visiting Scholar at both Macquarie University and Sydney University (2005). She has regularly participated in overseas practicums in Kunming, PRC and Apia, Western Samoa.

Teaching Areas:
English Education, Children’s Literature, Australian Literature, Teaching ESL, Approaches to the Teaching of English

Research Areas:
ESL, Language and Literature

Current research involves: the writing of primary school children: the developmental continuum; teacher trainees and the China practicum.

PhD: Catherine Helen Spence

Publications:
Books:

Winch, G. Holliday, M. Johnston, R. Ljungdahl, L. March, P., 2001, Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children’s Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. ISBN 0- 19-550671-5

L. Ljungdahl, 1987 A Week in the Future, Hale & Iremonger, Leichhardt, NSW, 136p. illus. 28 cm. Edited by Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Editing;
prologue; annotations; notes, selection of illustrations. ISBN 86806 299 5

Other:

Ljungdahl, L.  (2006), Internationalisation: Teaching English in the People’s Republic of China, International Journal of Learning, 13(3), 73-80. (PDF download 860k)

Ljungdahl, L.  (2005), ESL education: Theory and effective practice in the creative classroom, International Journal of Learning, 12(4), 1-10.

Ljungdahl, L.  (2004), Cultural encounters in the People’s Republic of China: Learning beyond the classroom, International Journal of Learning, 11.

Ljungdahl, L.  (2003), The English language and linguistic imperialism: the Trojan horse? International Journal of Learning, 10.

Ljungdahl, L. (2002), Pre-service teachers abroad: Australians in the People’s Republic of China, International Journal of Learning, 9.

L. Ljungdahl, 1999, ‘Teachers’ choices and children’s literature’, TESOL in Context, vol. 9, no. 1, July.

L. Ljungdahl 1999, 'Children's literature and children's futures', ACTA-ATESOL Conference Proceedings, Sydney.

L. Ljungdahl, 1993, 'Teaching English Literacy: NSW and ACT Response to the Recommendations of the Report of the Project of National Significance on the Pre-Service Preparation of Teachers for teaching English Literacy, (Literacy, Language and Literacy Project. Lindfield, NSW: School of Teacher Education, University of Technology, Sydney, 72p. (with Prof. C. Deer)

L. Ljungdahl, 1990 'Galloping Illiteracy and Student Writing', Teaching for Effective Learning, ed. Bob Ross, Research and Development in Higher Education, Volume 13. Papers presented at the 16th Annual Conference held at Griffith University, Brisbane, July. ISBN 0 868573 49 3