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Mr Paul Mercieca

Ed.D; M.Ed. TESOL; B.A. (Hons.) History and Politics; UCLES/RSA Dip. TEFLA; UCLES/RSA Cert. TEFLA.

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    • Role:
    • Lecturer
    • Department:
    • School of Education
    • Location:
    • Humanities 326
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 4224

Paul is the MA Applied Linguistics Vietnam Offshore Course Co-ordinator in the School of Education.

Paul has worked in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Oman and Australia as an English language teacher, teacher educator and administrator. He is an IELTS, CUTE and TEE Examiner. He is employed as a consultant by NEAS, a national accreditation board for language teaching centres for overseas students. For more than twenty years Paul has been a course tutor, director and assessor for the Cambridge ESOL Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults course (CELTA), a pre service teacher education course accredited by the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate and offered world wide by different providers. Paul has had many articles and conference papers published. He is the Executive Editor of the EA Journal.

Research Interests

Teacher education, intercultural literacy, cultural identity and orientalism.

Research Projects

Paul recently completed doctoral research into music, cultural identity and literacy in a migrant subculture.

Teaching - Undergraduate

Paul lectures on language teaching units in the Bachelor of Education course.

Teaching - Postgraduate

Paul lectures on units in the MA Applied Linguistics and in the Graduate Diploma in Education courses.

Teaching - Administration

MA Applied Linguistics Vietnam Offshore Course Co-ordinator

Memberships

Curtin University Test of English Board WATESOL Association

Awards

Innovative Teaching Practice Award, Curtin University 2000.

Excellence in Teaching Award, Honourable Mention, Curtin University Student Guild 2005.

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Dobinson, T, and Mercieca, P. 2008. Learners, Lessons and Vocabulary: Factors Affecting Recall and Retention (Australia). In Language Teacher Research in Australia and New Zealand, eds Anne Burns and Jill Burton, 61-83. Virginia USA: TESOL inc.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Mercieca, P. 2007. Reflective practice in TESOL teacher education: do teachers learn from what learners teach?. 11th English in South East Asia Conference, 12/12/2006. Curtin University of Technology Perth, Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.