Dr Deborah Hill
Lecturer
TESOL and English Language

Bio: Deborah has previously co-ordinated Supervised Teaching Practice in the program. Deborah has a B.A. (Hons), M.A. and PhD in Linguistics (ANU) and a Graduate Diploma of Education (UC). She has had teaching and research experience at universities in Australia and Holland and has taught in the programs offshore programs in Vietnam and China since 2003. Read more

Dr Jeremy Jones
Senior Lecturer
TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching

Bio: Dr Jones has had many years of experience teaching both English as a foreign or second language and language teacher education. In addition to his work in Australia, he has taught in Canada, England, the Middle East, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan and China. His current teaching responsibilities are in the area of language teaching methodology, testing and assessment and language and society. Read more

Dr Eleni Petraki
Lecturer
TESOL and English Language

Bio: Eleni has over fifteen years of experience in EFL and ESL and university education. She taught in Greece, UK, USA, Vietnam and Australia. Her current teaching comprises Discourse Studies, Language Acquisition, Research Methods, Study of Language and Grammar and Communication. She has supervised many postgraduate students in various fields of TESOL. She is a consulting editor in the international journal of Qualitative Sociology Review. Read more

Dr Elke Stracke
Senior Lecturer
TESOL/Foreign Language Teaching/Applied Linguistics

Bio: Dr Stracke is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL/Foreign Language Teaching/Applied Linguistics in the Faculty. She has held university teaching and research positions in Germany (University of Muenster), New Zealand (University of Otago) and in Australia (Australian National University) before joining the University of Canberra in 2007. Her current teaching responsibilities in the TESOL/Foreign Language Teaching Program are in the area of language teaching methodology, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. Read more

Dr Yanyin Zhang
Senior Lecturer
TESOL and Applied Linguistics

Bio: Yanyin's research interests are in the areas of second language acquisition (Chinese, English), intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics, and language pedagogy. Read more