BA (Wales), MA (Penn), MA (Syd), CertTESL (Lond), PhD (UTS)

Associate Professor
Academic area: Language and Literacy

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3851
Email: Pauline.Gibbons@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.312
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Pauline Gibbons has been involved in TESOL for the past twenty five years, and has worked as a teacher and as a teacher-trainer in Australia, Hong Kong, U.K., Iran, Germany, Poland, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and Laos.

Teaching Areas:
Systemic functional linguistics, second language development, TESOL curriculum development, assessment, second language teaching in the EFL context, teaching and learning literacy, spoken language development.

Research Areas:
These include bilingual and multilcultural education, spoken language development in the school context, second language development, and classroom discourse. Her current research interests focus on classroom discourse in relation to the learning of English as a second language in schools, and responses to cultural and linguistic diversity at the tertiary level.

Board member and Publications Director for Primary English Teaching Association, Australia, 1994-1997;
Consultant for Association of Independent Schools, NPDP Project on Spoken Language in the Middle Years, 1996-7;
Member of NSW Children's Literacy and ESL Research Node, 1993-1995;
Ongoing consultancy work with the NSW Department of School Education;
Ongoing professional development with schools and education systems across Australia

Publications:
Gibbons J., W. White and P. Gibbons (1994). Combating Educational Disadvantage among Lebanese Australian Children. In T. Skutnabb- Kangas and R. Phillipson (eds.) Linguistic Human Rights: overcoming linguistic discrimination. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Gibbons P. (1992). Assessing the language of bilingual children. In B. Derewianka (ed.) Language Assessment in the primary classroom, Sydney: HBJ

Gibbons P. (1991). Learning to Learn in a Second Language Sydney: Primary English Teaching Association

Gibbons P. (1998). Classroom talk and the learning of new registers in a second language. Language and Education, 12, (2) pp. 99-118.

Gibbons P. (1993). Talk: a bridge to learning and literacy in the classroom, ACTA Journal 3(1)

Gibbons P. et al. 1995 PD on CD: A Professional Development Course in Early Literacy, Curriculum Corporation,Melbourne (publication on CD ROM)

Books/chapters
o Gibbons J., W. White and P. Gibbons (1994). Combating Educational Disadvantage among Lebanese Australian Children. In T. Skutnabb- Kangas and R. Phillipson (eds.) Linguistic Human Rights: overcoming linguistic discrimination. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
o Gibbons P. (1992). Assessing the language of bilingual children. In B. Derewianka (ed.) Language Assessment in the primary classroom, Sydney: HBJ
o Gibbons P. (1991). Learning to Learn in a Second Language . Sydney: Primary English Teaching Association
o Gibbons P. (co-author)(1985). Link Up, The British Council English Course for Primary Schools , (Hong Kong). London: Evans

Journal articles
o Gibbons P. (1998). Classroom talk and the learning of new registers in a second language, Language and Education, 12, (2) p. 99-118.
o Gibbons P. (1995). Learning a new register in a second language: the role of teacher/student talk. Working Papers in Language and Literacy: Paper No. 1, Centre for Language and Literacy, University of Technology, Sydney.
o Gibbons P. (1993). Talk: a bridge to learning and literacy in the classroom, ACTA Journal 3(1)
o Gibbons P. (1992) Supporting Bilingual Students for Success, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 15(3)
o Gibbons P. (1990). A systemic format for assessing the development of children's writing,Network

Professional development materials and resources
o Gibbons P. et al. (1995). PD on CD: Aprofessional Development Course in Early Literacy, Curriculum Corporation,Melbourne (publication on CD ROM)
o Gibbons P. (1991). Finding Out: a resource kit for teachers K-6 for assessing written and spoken language: Sydney, CEO (DSP action research project, with teachers)

Selected Conference papers
o The role of the teacher as demonstrator in the development of children's writing, ATESOL Conference: 'Language and Power', University of Sydney 1987.
o A diagnostic approach to the assessment of oral language, TESL Teacher Training Conference, Brisbane 1990.
o The assessment of oral language, PETA Conference, 'Language as the Core', University of Wollongong 1990.
o Spoken language, learning and literacy , RAS Conference, Sydney 1991.
o Using the mother tongue in the early years of school, Arabic conference, University of Melbourne 1991.
o Assessment and ESL learners (leader of 4 day workshop), Language and Education Conference, University of Wollongong 1990.
o Assessment workshop (leader), CEO curriculum conference, Sydney 1990.
o Supporting Students for Success, (plenary) Literacy, Social Justice and Genre Conference, South Australia, July 1992.
o Spoken Language: Building on the Resource, ATESOL Conference Sydney 1993.
o Supporting bilingual students: (plenary), The Right to Learn Conference, New Zealand Reading Association, Manawatu, June 1993.
o Making a Difference: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Second Language Learner, PETA National Conference, Sydney, January 1994.
o Making Space for Talk: Spoken Language, Learning and Literacy, WATESOL ACTA National Conference, Perth, January 1994.
o Talking as a bridge to learning and literacy, ATESOL Conference, Sydney, January 1995.
o Participating in Talk: a route to learning and literacy, ARA conference: Celebrating Difference, Confronting Literacy, Sydney, July 1995.
o Spoken language and literacy (plenary ) andWriting assessment : Literacy and the ESL Learner , ATESOL NT Conference, May 1995.
o Classroom talk and second language learning: helping or hindering, plenary address to SATESOL association, South Australia, June 1995.
o Social Justice, Statements and Profiles and ESL students, Early Childhood Winter School, Adelaide 1995.
o It feels like a strong wind: student talk and the learning of school registers in a second language, International Systemics Conference, Sydney 1996.
o Oral Language in the Classroom, (plenary) NPDP Literacy Conference, Sydney, June 1997.
o The Centrality of Talk (plenary) QATESOL Conference, October 1997.
o Transition to Literacy: from spoken to written language, JALT Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan, October 1997.
o Teaching as mediation, RELC Conference, Singapore, April 1998.
o Scaffolding Spoken Language (plenary) and workshop leader, in AIS Conference, Options, Opportunities and Outcomes, Sydney, June 1998.
o The Role of Scaffolding in Opening the Gate, (plenary) CLESOL National Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1998.
o (forthcoming) Classroom second language development as a socially mediated process, AILA Conference, Tokyo, August 1999.