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Teaching commitmentBiographyAn avid learner of other languages, I worked for a decade or so teaching English as a foreign and second language in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, in both child and adult settings. This led me to further study in applied linguistics and a career in teacher education. My current research focuses on teacher education in the second language field. Topics include the metalinguistic knowledge of language teachers and visual resources for teacher education.
Research InterestsSecond and foreign language teacher education; Language awareness of (language) teachers; native and non-native teachers of ESL; Second language acquisition; second language teaching methodology, classroom interaction (corrective feedback); language and the law.
Professional Associations
- Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
- Victorian Association of TESOL and Multicultural Education
- Australian Council of TESOL Associations
- TESOL (USA)
Community Service
- Member, Joint Education Systems and Tertiary Institutions ESL Forum, Victoria
- Member, Scholarships committee, English-Speaking Union, Victoria
Supervision2008
Doctoral theses (80,000-100,000 words)ongoing (Main supervisor):
-Exploring Native and Non-Native raters' decision-making behaviour in the assessment of the Chinese College English Spoken English Test
-Teacher-student classroom talk in three Malaysian primary school classes
-Pre-service and in-service Omani EFL teachers' beliefs about teaching English and the influence of practice on them
-ESL parents' expectations of literacy teaching in Australian primary schools
Masters minor theses (16,000- 20,000 words)completed:
-Negotiation of meaning in Indonesian-Chinese international Postgraduate Student Interactions
-Social support and willingness to communicate in a second language
-Motivation and English learning habits of Japanese university students
Masters minor thesis (16,000- 20,000 words)ongoing:
-How Japanese postgraduates seek opportunities for developing English language use
2007
Doctoral thesis (80,000-100,000 words)completed:
-Exploring the role of social and cultural factors in English language learning: Fourth formers in Kedah, Malaysia, PhD
Masters minor thesis (16,000- 20,000 words)completed:
-Japanese learners use of L1 in L2 Listening comprehension, M Ed minor thesis
2006
Masters minor theses (16,000- 20,000 words) completed:
-Issues of performance by overseas students in VCE Physics examinations
-English with a Japanese accent in English classrooms in Japan
2005
-Interlanguage syntax of Indonesian English learners at post-graduate level
-Taiwan secondary school English teachers' understandings of CLT
-Silent seminars - International perspectives on participation-based learning
-A case study: Teachers' and students' perceptions of the Basic English course in a Mongolian university
-Analysis of textbooks for intercultural communication between Japanese and American business people
-An exploration of issues in English education in a Japanese primary school
2004
Ed D theses (80.000-100,000 words) completed (Associate supervisor):
-South Korean adult learners' perceptions of the learning environments in their English language
-Changing culture, changing practice: Overseas born teachers in search of self
-Staging Macbeth in Japan: The chameleon approach
-The role of teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge in teaching writing at university level: Perceptions of some Indonesian lecturers
-English language teaching techniques in the adult EFL context in Indonesia
2003
-Native speaker norms and EIL awareness: Japanese teachers' perspectives about English pronunciation teaching
-Thai ESL students' motivation in learning speaking in CLT classrooms
-Assessing writing skills in a communicative paradigm: An evaluation of the Secondary School Certificate English examination in Bangladesh
-Communicative materials and activities in primary ESL: Can Australian practice suggest new ways of teaching English in Nepal?
-An evaluation of English materials for first year engineering students at the Politeknik Sulawesi Selatan
-Perspectives on EFL Communicative Language Teaching in a Vietnamese university,
-How well do English language comprehension tests predict performance in a university Foundation Studies program?
PublicationsJensen, Marie-Therese. (2002). Corrective feedback to spoken errors in adult ESL classrooms. PhD thesis. Faculty of Education, Monash University.
Harrington, J., Jensen, M.T. and Rosen, R.R. (2002). Strangers in a strange land: a collaborative Australian - Korean M Ed (TEFL) program. In Intensive English Programs in Postsecondary Settings. Alexandria, Virginia:TESOL Inc.
Jensen, Marie-Therese. (1995). Linguistic evidence accepted in the case of a non-native speaker of English. In D. Eades (Ed.). Language in evidence. Sydney: University of NSW Press.
Clarkson, R. & Jensen, M.T. (1995). Assessing achievement in English for professional employment programs. In Language assessment in action. Sydney, Macquarie University: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research
Jensen, Marie-Therese. (1991). Differences between a written police record of interview and tape-recorded interview with a NESB defendant. Melbourne Working Papers in Applied Linguistics.
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