Staff profile

Mr Craig Taylor

FBEL Academic Language & Learning Team, Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Room 326, Donald Whitehead Building, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B.A Journalism (Monash), Grad. Dip Education - Secondary: TESOL & Media (La Trobe), Cert IV TAA, M.A Applied Linguistics - Program Evaluation and Language Testing (Melbourne) Economics of Education for Policy Makers I, World Bank Institute

Brief profile

Craig Taylor is a Lecturer in Academic Language & Literacy for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. He has worked in Education at different levels for more than a decade both here and abroad.

Craig has presented domestically and internationally on such topics as cultural diversity in the ESL classroom,  English for Academic Purposes (EAP), factors affecting international student acculturation and Academic Literacy.  He attained a Masters of Applied Linguistics (Program Evaluation and Language Testing) from the University of  Melbourne, and is strongly interested in test crafting, assessment practices and curriculum design. He is currently working toward a PhD investigating the role culture plays in the application of Critical Thinking processes.

His current research involves the the application of critical evaluation skills in higher education,  how we define critical literacy (and the cultural factors that affect it), factors affecting student acculturation, and intervention strategies for at-risk students.

Teaching units

MGT1FOW Future of Work

The BRIDGEWORKS Communicative Stream

Academic language and Learning Seminars and Workshops for MGT2HRM, THS1ITH, THS1SPF and THS1ISM, ECO1HOG

 

 

Consulting

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