Kieran lectures in the graduate TESOL and Modern Languages Education programs, supervises postgraduate research projects and conducts research, mainly in the area of second language assessment.

Kieran is a member of the Victorian Association of TESOL and Multicultural Education (VATME), the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA,) the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALA

Kieran holds a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma of Education, Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics) and PhD (Applied Linguistics) from the University of Melbourne as well as a Graduate Diploma of Tea

Kieran teaches a range of subjects in the postgraduate TESOL and Modern Languages Education programs including Second Language Assessment, English for Specific Purposes and Teaching English in the Int

Kieran's main research interests are in a) second language assessment, b) English for academic purposes, c) the teaching of literature in second language classrooms and d) social identities in second

Selected recent publications:


O’LOUGHLIN, K. (2009) “Does it measure up?” Benchmarking the written examination of a university English pathway program. Melbourne Papers in Language Testing. 14,1:

With Dr Russell Cross, Kieran is currently working on a project funded by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education entitled "Enhancing classroom-based assessment in University English preparation pr