Biography

Jeremy F. Jones BA (Hons), CertTESL, M AppLing, PhD

Dr Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Program of TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching. He 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, and he is the Primary Supervisor of several PhD students. He has researched and published work on testing, self-access learning and learner autonomy, cross-cultural rhetorical styles, teaching research skills, teacher beliefs and academic writing.

Selected recent publications and papers

(2010 in press) Using metadiscourse to improve coherence in academic writing. In Soryong, Om (ed.) CamTESOL Selected Papers 2010. Phnom Penh: IDP/CamTESOL.

(2008) (with Fong, T.) Investigating the influence of secondary EFL teachers’ beliefs and experience on their practice: The case of Macau. In Soryong, Om (ed.) CamTESOL Selected Papers 2010. Phnom Penh: IDP/CamTESOL.

(With Fong, T.) (2007) The impact of teachers’ beliefs and educational experiences on EFL classroom practices in secondary schools. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching 17, 27-48.

(2007) Losing and finding coherence in academic writing. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL 2(2), 125-148.

(2004) A cultural context for language anxiety. English Australia Journal 21/2, 30-39.

(2004) The many benefits of a research component in English language teacher education. Prospect: An Australian Journal of TESOL 19/2, 25-38.


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