Dr Julie Harrington - Researcher Profile

Biography

Julie works in the Faculty of Education at Monash University as a Lecturer. Before coming to Monash, Julie Harrington taught for many years in the US, Canada and Sydney at secondary, tertiary and adult education levels in the subject areas of Spanish and English. She also worked as a Research Fellow in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. In addition to teaching units in postgraduate programs at Clayton and supervising research students, during her time at Monash she has taught for the Education Faculty in South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

Research & Supervision Interests

Reflective practice in educational contexts; research methods in education; cross-cultural communication and pedagogy; language teaching in international contexts, classroom-based research in second language education,

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 1993

Publications

Conference Proceedings

Winter, R.V., Harrington, J.M., 2012, Who do we think we are? Finding our roots and finding our roles in a postgraduate research cohort, Extending inquiry communities: Illuminating teacher education through self study, 15/08/2012-19/08/2012, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah United States of America, pp. 297-300.

Jensen, M., Harrington, J.M., 2008, Developing the language awareness of second language teachers, Proceedings of AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, 25-29 November 2007, AARE, Coldstream Vic Australia, pp. 1-23.

Other

Harrington, J.M., 2005, Ourselves to know: the role of reflective practice in the work of experienced second language teachers.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Exploring the teaching beliefs of immigrant Chinese language teachers in mainstream secondary school.

Supervisors:

Harrington, J (Main), Deppeler, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Role of Learning Strategies When Learing a Language Other Than English..

Supervisors:

Harrington, J (Main), Filipi, A (Associate).