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PhD (University of Queensland), Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (Griffith University)
Associate Professor Margaret Kettle is an applied linguist who researches and teaches in second language education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Her research and teaching focus on the factors impacting second language use in workplaces, schools, higher education and communities.
Margaret has led and been a member of a number of research projects including three Australian Research Council (ARC) projects, a Queensland Department of Education Horizon project and a number of QUT-funded projects. Project outcomes include the development of website designs for English language teaching in China; volunteer language teaching materials for adult migrants; understandings of academic development for English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in schools and international student engagement in higher education; and strategies for using student home language in schools to promote learning and school-family connections.
Margaret teaches and coordinates the Master of Education (TESOL) and research methods in the Doctor of Education. She has conducted consultancies in regional schools with culturally- and linguistically-diversifying student populations and the associated benefits of increasing teaching capabilities and student inclusion. In addition, she has led a professional development project with English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) teachers at a university in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the goal of building teacher capability in EOP course design, implementation, and evaluation.
Margaret completed her PhD at The University of Queensland in 2007, with her thesis winning The University of Queensland Varghese Prize for Best Thesis in Comparative Education (2008) and the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Excellence Award for Research Thesis (2009). She has published a book on international higher education titled International student engagement in higher education: Transforming practices, pedagogies and participation (2017) with leading publisher Multilingual Matters.
Additional information
Margaret's teaching and research are designed to maximise the benefits of collaboration and knowledge-sharing with partners in workplaces, schools, government departments and community organisations.
- Type
- Membership of Review Panels on Prestigious Grant Applications
- Reference year
- 2021
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- An ARC assessor since 2016.
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- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2020
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- A consultancy with the Queensland Department of Education Darling Downs South-West region region.
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2020
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- APJTE is a Q1 journal and leader in the field of teacher education.
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- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2018
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- Keynote presentation. VietTESOL International Convention. Hanoi University of Industry, Vietnam.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
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- Publication Award: Faculty of Education Publication First - Book - International student engagement in higher education: Transforming practices, pedagogies and participation.
- Kettle, M., (2021). Building School-Migrant Family Connections in Culturally- and Linguistically-Diversifying Rural Communities: A Participatory Study from Australia. In S. White & J. Downey (Eds.), Rural education across the world: Models of innovative practice and impact (pp. 107–128). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213884
- Kettle, M., (2021). Conceptualising the complexity of international student engagement: Antecedents, actions and accomplishments. In Z. Zhang, T. Grimshaw & X. Shi (Eds.), International Student Education in Tertiary Settings: Interrogating Programs and Processes in Diverse Contexts (pp. 107–124). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207134
- Alford, J. & Kettle, M. (2021). Defining bilingualism, multilingualism and plurilingualism in education: Innovations in teaching for diversity in mainstream classrooms. In R. Arber, M. Weinmann & J. Blackmore (Eds.), Rethinking Languages Education: Directions, Challenges and Innovations (pp. 167–178). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127150
- Smith, J., Kettle, M. & Alford, J. (2021). Scaffolding homework for foreign language and self-regulated learning: Lessons from an Australian primary school. Education 3-13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/214241
- Kettle, M., Heimans, S., Biesta, G. & Takayama, K. (2021). Examining teacher education research methodology: practices, priorities and politics. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49(3), 245–248. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213885
- Takayama, K., Kettle, M., Heimans, S. & Biesta, G. (2021). Thinking about cross-border experience in teacher education during the global pandemic. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49(2), 143–147. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213886
- Kettle, M. & Macqueen, S. (2020). Applied linguistics and education. In GW. Noblit (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202068
- Le, L., Kettle, M. & Pillay, H. (2020). Using Corpus Analysis in a Needs Analysis of Key English Vocabulary for Petroleum Engineers in Vietnam. Asian EFL Journal, 24(1), 45–68. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199869
- Biesta, G., Takayama, K., Kettle, M. & Heimans, S. (2020). Teacher education between principle, politics, and practice: Editorial. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48(5), 455–459. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206053
- Kettle, M., (2017). International Student Engagement in Higher Education: Transforming Practices, Pedagogies and Participation. Multilingual Matters. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103570
- Title
- Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools: A Longitudinal Study of Graduates at Work in Low Socio-Economic Status Schools
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100613
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Quality Teaching; Low Ses Schooling; Teachers Work
- Title
- Images, Perceptions and Resources: Enhancing Australia's Role in China's English Language Education
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP100200397
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Web Based Learning; China; TEFOL; ICT and Education
- Title
- Images, Perceptions and Resources: Enhancing Australia's Role in China's English Language Education
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP100200397
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Web Based Learning; China; TEFOL; ICT and Education
- Investigating the Alignment between English Language Academic Support Courses and Students' Transition to English Medium Instruction at a Sri Lankan University
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Hitendra Pillay - Mothering Infants in a Digital Age: Digital Dilemmas and Social Interaction
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Susan Danby
- Bilingual Curriculum Enactment in Vietnam in an Era of Economic and Social Reform (2021)
- Language Change: Identity Management and The Boundaries of Acceptable Verbal Conduct in School Settings (2019)
- Rethinking Homework for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Primary School (2019)
- Aligning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum with Industry Needs: Language Practices for Vietnam's Globalised Workplaces (2017)
- Aligning Specialist English Language Curriculum in Higher Education with Development Imperatives and Workplace Communication Needs in Vietnam: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Petroleum Industry (2017)
- Conceptions of Care in International Higher Education in Australia (2017)
- An Exploratory Study of the Current Assessment Practices for Improving the Learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Two Vietnamese Universities (2015)
- Conceptualisation and enactment of critical literacy for senior high school EAL learners in Queensland, Australia: Commitments, constraints and contradictions (2015)
- Teaching Pragmatics in an EFL Context: Implications for Coursebook Design, Teaching and Learning (2015)
- A case study of pedagogical responses to internationalisation at a faith-based secondary school in Australia (2013)