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Dr Michele de Courcy |
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Language and Literacy Education
Phone: +61 3 8344 8377
Fax: +61 3 8344 8612
Email: m.decourcy@unimelb.edu.au
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Membership
Role
Michèle de Courcy is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne
Michèle taught in high schools for ten years, teaching French, Music, English (as first, second and foreign language) and Geography in France, Scotland, and several Australian states.
After retraining as an ESL specialist, she taught ELICOS before moving into univeristy research and teaching in the area of second language teacher education.
She is a member of the editorial board of several journals, including the "International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism" and "Language and Education".
She is the coordinator of the Postgraduate programs in TESOL and the Chair of the Faculty Human Ethics Advisory Group.
Associations
Michèle's previous academic appointments have been as a Senior Lecturer in Literacy and TESL at LaTrobe University, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Canberra, and Lecturer and Research Assistant at Griffith University.
She is involved with a number of professional organizations and journals, principally the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
Qualifications
Michèle has a BA and DipEd in French and Music from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Lingusitics, a Master of Philosophy and a PhD from Griffith University. Her Masters and PhD theses were in the area of second language immersion.
Teaching Areas
Michèle's main teaching is on the subjects, "Language and Language Acquisition", "Bilingual Education", and "TESOL Curriculum Design and Methodology".
Her current thesis supervision includes the following topics:
- Exploring the dialogic in a Chinese EFL setting
- LOTE education in rural Victoria
- Early mixing of a bilingual child
- Development of literacy in non-alphabet languages and ESL
- Experiences of Chinese students in an Australian university post graduate program
Research
Michèle's research, teaching and publications centre on bilingual education with an emphasis on second language acquisition processes and content-based language instruction. She has written and supervised theses in the following main areas:
- Content-based language teaching and learning
- Immersion programs – evaluation and learning processes
- Language learning strategies (especially reading)
- Acquisition of character-based languages
- Cross-cultural communication
Her Masters and Doctoral theses, undertaken at Griffith University, were ethnographies conducted in late immersion schools in Queensland and she has published widely on immersion education in Australia. Her recent projects have included commissioned evaluations of French and Indonesian immersion programs in Victoria. She is currently working with colleagues Lynda Yates and Howard Nicholas of LaTrobe University on a longitudinal investigation of English language acquisition and cultural adaptation of Iraqi refugees living in a Victorian regional setting.
Publications
Books
de Courcy, M. C. (2002). Learners’ experiences of immersion education: Case studies in French and Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. 163 pp.
Truckenbrodt, A. & de Courcy, M. (2002). Implementing a bilingual program. Melbourne: Association of Independent Schools Victoria. 78 pp.
Chapters in books
de Courcy, M. C. and Mård-Miettinen, K. (in press) Output-related teaching strategies emphasized by late immersion students. Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Proceedings of the language teacher education conference. 24 pages. CARLA, University of Minnesota. To appear May 2007.
de Courcy, M. C. (in press) Disrupting preconceptions – the invisibility of the ESL learner. Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Proceedings of the language teacher education conference. 24 pages. CARLA, University of Minnesota. To appear May 2007.
de Courcy, M. C. (2005). Language teachers’ experiences of language learning and their effect on practice. in Bigelow, M., & Walker, C. (Eds.). Creating teacher community: Selected papers from the third international conference on language teacher education. (pp. 259-279) Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.
de Courcy, M. C. and Mård-Miettinen, K. (2004). Output-related teaching strategies emphasized by late immersion students. In Siv Björklund & Martina Buss (Eds) Kielikylpyä: Kasvua ja kehitystä/Språkbad: Samverkan skapar styrka (Language immersion: Cooperation creates strength), pp. 60-77. Vaasa: Levón-Institute.
de Courcy, M. C. (1997). Benowa High: A decade of French immersion in Australia. In Johnson, R. K. & Swain, M. (Eds.). Immersion: International perspectives, pp. 44-62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
de Courcy, M. C. (1995). "You just live in French": Adolescent experiences of French immersion. In Berthold, M. J. (Ed.) Rising to the bilingual challenge, pp. 77-97. Canberra: NLLIA.
Papers in refereed journals
de Courcy, M. C. (2007). Invisible learners: Disrupting preconceptions about ESL children. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 28(3), 188-201.
de Courcy, M. C. (2007). "The role of first language literacy in the acquisition of English as an additional language. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 2, 1-16.
de Courcy, M. C. (2006). The influence of bilingual children’s experiences of literacy in Hebrew on their acquisition of English as a Second Language. Babel: Journal of the AFMLTA, 41(2), 4-9, 38.
de Courcy, M. C. (2005). The effect of learning a new language on ESL teachers’ beliefs about language pedagogy. Australian Language and Literacy Matters. 2(3), 7-12, Spring/Summer, 2005.
de Courcy, M. C. (2005). Policy challenges for bilingual and immersion education in Australia: literacy and language choices for users of Aboriginal languages, Auslan and Italian. in Hornberger, N. (Ed.) “Heritage / Community Language Education: US and Australian Perspectives”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. special issue. Volume 8(2&3), 178-187.
de Courcy, M. C. (2003) French Takes Over Your Mind: Private Speech and Making Sense in Immersion programs. Journal of Educational Thought. Vol. 37, #3. (invited article which was also refereed)
de Courcy, M. C., Warren, J. & Burston, M. (2002). Children from diverse backgrounds in an immersion programme. Language and Education. 16(2), 112-127. (I held the pen. Agreed % 70-30-30)
de Courcy, M. C, & Burston, M. (2000). Learning Mathematics through French in Australia. Language and Education. 14(2), 75-95.
de Courcy, M. C. (1999). L’immersion en Australie. Babylonia. 4, 43-44. Basel, Switzerland: Fondation Langues et Cultures.
de Courcy, M. C., Burston, M. & Warren, J. (1999). Language development in an Australian French early partial immersion program. Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. 34(2), 14-20, 38.
de Courcy, M. C. (1997
Projects
* Children's experiences of biliteracy in non-alphabetic languages and ESL
* Language acquisition and cultural adaptation of Iraqi refugees/immigrants in a rural community
* Development of ESL progression measures for Victorian schools
Other Information
Professional Development Seminars and Workshops
de Courcy, M. C. (2006, May). “Using African singing and clapping games with ESL children”. Workshop presented at the New Arrivals Program Professional development day, Hotel Eden on the Park, Melbourne, May 28, 2006.
de Courcy, M. C. (2005, November). “Genre-based approaches to the teaching of text in the language classroom”. Workshop presented at the TED-ELTC ETeMS Conference, 2005, “Fostering schools that learn”, Holiday Villa, Selangor, Malaysia, 22-24 November, 2005.
de Courcy, M. C. (2005, November). “Strategies used by students to understand word problems in Mathematics in a second language”. Seminar presented to the staff of INTEC, at the University of Technology, Mara, Malaysia.
de Courcy, M. C. and Mård-Miettinen, K. (2005, May) “Output-related teaching strategies emphasized by late immersion students”. presented to the Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, May 27, 2005.
“Strategies-based language learning”. Workshop presented to the staff of the School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane, 10 June, 2004.
“What makes a good LOTE program? Does bilingual education offer an alternative?” presented to Victorian Department of Education and Training, LMERC, August 21, 2003.
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