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Jennifer Alford is Associate Professor in the Griffith Institute of Education Research and School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, commencing in Nov 2022. She is a senior researcher in Griffith Institute for Education Research (GIER). Jennifer's research and teaching impacts the ways teachers provide high quality education for high school English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) learners from migrant and refugee-backgrounds, and in how they interpret and enact literacy curriculum with EAL/D learners. She teaches in the fields of first and second language acquisition and language/literacy teaching pedagogy, as well as intercultural understanding. Her research interests include socio-cultural approaches to teacher knowledge and policy enactment with a special interest in critical literacy with English language learners. Jennifer is interested in critical discourse analysis as a theorised method of analysing teacher knowledge and practice of critical literacy and student engagement with critical literacy. From July 2017- Dec 2020 she was leader of the Literacies, Language, Texts and Technologies (LLTT) Research Group at QUT, a vibrant team of established and emerging scholars working on diverse projects. From Dec 2019 to Dec 2020 she co-led QUT's Master of Education course accreditation.
Research projects:
i. ARC DECRA DE210101782 - This project investigates how migrant and refugee-background youth learn to read critically in school, and in everyday, out-of-school contexts. Youth engage in the complex online worlds of websites, Apps, digital gaming and other media, posing both opportunities and risks. Their challenge is navigating learning to read English, and to read critically in English. Using qualitative methods, this study will identify the critical reading practices of these youth, and create resources to enhance their critical reading skills out-of-school. Drawing connections between in and out of school reading benefits migrant and refugee-background youth and teachers to strategically manage critical reading in complex, contemporary reading environments.
ii. A critical analysis of Inclusive Education policy ensembles in Qld, NSW and Vic, Australia with Assoc Prof Terri Bourke and Dr Sofia Mavropolou, QUT.
iii. A study of how the introduction of new state English syllabuses and assessment processes has reshaped English teachers' practices- with Dr Sherilyn Lennon (Griffith University) and Danielle Gordon (PhD cand./lecturer, QUT).
iv. A systematic review of recent studies in interdisciplinary secondary teacher education - with Assoc. Prof Terri Bourke, Dr Lyra L'Estrange and colleagues at QUT.
v. A longitudinal mixed methods investigation into how long it takes English language learners in Queensland schools to reach academic parity with the English speaking peers and what socio-educational variables contribute to this being achieved (with Assoc. Prof Margaret Kettle - lead CI (QUT); Dr Sue Creagh (UQ); Prof Barbara Comber (UniSA) and Assoc. Prof Paul Shields (adjunct, QUT).
vi. A scoping review of studies on teacher agency within English teaching 2008-2018 (with Assoc. Prof James Chisholm, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA).
See publications on Griffith Experts page.
In 2016, Jennifer's PhD won a QUT University Outstanding Thesis Award. This award is given to theses in the top 5% of each of the six University Faculties. In 2015, her thesis won the QUT Faculty of Education Outstanding Thesis Award. Her thesis also won the 2015 national Penny McKay Memorial Award for outstanding doctoral research in the field of languages education in schools. Her PhD thesis is available on her QUT e-prints publications list.
Her book titled "Critical Literacy with adolescent English language learners: policy and practice in global contexts" (based on her PhD research) was published by Routledge in May, 2021.
Jennifer is a founding member of the TCLN Transnational Critical Literacies Network with over 120 members worldwide. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Literacies, a volume that captures global theory and practice about critical literacy in education (Sept 2021).
Jennifer co-edited a landmark, special issue of ETPC - English Teaching Practice and Critique, a Q1 journal, on English teacher agency. Due to its popularity, a second special issue on Teacher Agency is set for 2023.
Jennifer features on the QUT Podclass #2, a series of podcasts promoting the work of QUT Education academics hosted by award-winning radio host and journalist Madonna King. www.qut.edu.au/education/engage/teacher-podclass.
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BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORKno. 5 (2023): 2860-2877
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Intercultural Communication Educationno. 2 (2023)
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACYno. 3 (2023): 301-316
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