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Paul Dufficy

dufficyp@edfac.usyd.edu.au


Teaching Background

EFL

1976, Tokyo, Japan / 1981 Tokyo, Japan

 

1994 Bangkok, Thailand

ESL

1983-6 Bonnyrigg / 1989 Beverly Hills

Primary

1978-9, Campbelltown / 1982 [NWFP, Pakistan]

ESL Consultant

1987 NSW Dept of School Education

Teacher Ed.

1988-90 Sydney Teachers College

 

1991-present University of Sydney

Current Interests

  • teacher education
  • classroom interaction
  • philosophy of TESOL
  • classroom research in TESOL
  • planning for teaching and learning

Publications

 2001

 TESOL Notes (available here on the web)

1996

Vocabulary Teaching and Bilingual Student Language Development: To Be Or Not To Be...., The Primary Educator, 2:6

1993

Pedagogy of PreService TESOL Teacher Education, Journal of Education for Teaching, 19:1

1992

Learning a second language through science, in Investigating, 8:4

1991

Literacy and the Second Language Learner, in Furniss,E., Green,P.(eds) The Literacy Agenda, Portsmouth,NH:Heinemann (with Pauline Gummer)

1988

Science: Learning and Language
NSW Department of Education

 

Language Development in the Multicultural Classroom
1. "Discussion Starters" (coproducer,teacher)

 

2. "A Science Unit" (coproducer, writer, narrator, teacher) SCAE Video Group, SCAE

 

Integrating a student with minimal English into a mainstream classroom, in Topics in ESL 8 NSW Department of Education

 

Language Development in the Multicultural Classroom, in Proceedings: Hunter Region English as a Second Language Conference, University of Newcastle

1987

Effective ESL Organisation in Primary School" in The Changing Role of the ESL Teacher

 

ATESOL Bulletin 15

 

Collaborative Learning and Teaching, in Hodge,A.(ed) Early Language Development of Bilingual Children, SCAE Multicultural Centre

dufficyp@edfac.usyd.edu.au

(ps - look out for Paul about to go surfing - hooking a boat onto a helicopter next time you watch Apocalypse Now)