Ms Margaret Gearon

Job title:	Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:	B.A.,M.Ed.Studs., Maitrise des Sciences du Langage (Montpellier), D.E.A. (Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle), PhD
Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 326
Phone:	+61 3 990 52769
Email:	Margaret.Gearon@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 52779

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Teaching commitment

• EDF6201
  
• EDF6234
  
• EDF4117
  
• EDF6210
  
• EDF4411
  

Research Interests

Assessing foreign and second language teachers' oral and written proficiency. The classroom oral discourse of second language teachers. Curriculum renewal and the development of a communicative syllabus in languages other than English. The development of teacher education models for teachers of second / foreign languages in universities and ethnic schools.

Professional Associations

• Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria (MLTAV)
• Association of French Teachers in Victoria (AFTV)
• Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)
• Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers

Community Service

• Association of Independent Schools seminars for teachers of languages
• Community Languages Australia - teacher education programs for teachers of community languages

Supervision

Miscue Analysis of Thai students reading in English and Thai

Publications

Gearon, M. (1996). The oral discourse of teachers in the Languages Other Than English classroom: a help or a hindrance to learners acquisition of a second language. Paper delivered at MLTAV Primary LOTE Teachers Conference, Melbourne, August.