Dr Lindy Woodrow
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About Dr Lindy Woodrow
Lindy is passionate about optimizing the learning experiences of learners and users of English as a second language through investigating learner characteristics, practice and context.
Lindy Woodrow is an expert in language learning motivation, anxiety, self perceptions and academic writing.
Lindy Woodrow is the Convener of the MEd TESOL and a lecturer in TESOL at the University of Sydney. She is also the convenor for the University of Sydney’s MEd TESOL in China. She is a regular visitor to China for teaching and research purposes. She has over 30 years’ TESOL experience in UK, Europe, Australia and Asia. She has taught postgraduate courses in a number of areas in English language learning and teaching including Thesis and Dissertation Writing, English for Specific Purposes, Methodology and Language Testing. She has a MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Her PhD was in motivation of pre-sessional EAP learners in Australia.
Lindy’s. research interests concern issues in language learning motivation of Confucian heritage learners. She is interested in language learning self-efficacy, anxiety and language learning strategies. Her current research is focuses on self-beliefs and apprehension in academic writing. Lindy also researches the acquisition of academic literacies by international tertiary students. She has published in both of these areas. Her publications include articles in Foreign Language Annals, Modern Language Journal and TESOL She has a forthcoming co-authored book on academic writing (Paltridge, Harbon, Hirsh, Shen, Stevenson, & Woodrow, (2008).
Lindy currently supervises students researching willingness to communicate in English as a second language, language learning motivation, English for Specific Purposes and teaching English in Asian contexts.
Selected publications
Paltridge, B., L. Harbon, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H. Shen, M. & L. Woodrow (2008) Teaching Academic Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Woodrow, L. J. (2006) A model of adaptive second language learning, Modern Language Journal. 90 (3) 297-319
Woodrow, L. J. (2006) Anxiety and speaking English as a second language English language speaking anxiety in a second language environment. RELC Journal,37 (2),: 308 -328
Woodrow, L. J. (2005). The challenge of measuring language learning strategies. Foreign Language Annals, 38, (1) 90-100.
Woodrow, L. J. (2006) English in academic settings: A postgraduate course for non-English speaking background students. In L. Kamhi-Stein and A. Snow (eds) Designing a New Course for Adults. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, pp197-218
Woodrow, L. J. (2006) Academic success of international postgraduate education students and the role of English proficiency. University of Sydney Papers in TESOL. 1,51 – 71
Woodrow, L. J. (2006) English in academic settings: Helping international postgraduates cope. AARE Conference Proceedings WOO05108: <http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/abs05.htm#W>
Woodrow, L. J. (2005) Affect in second language learning. 39th IATEFL Conference
Proceedings, pp. 113-115.
Woodrow, L. J. & Chapman, E. (2002) Assessing the motivational goal orientations of international English for academic purposes students. Current Research in Social Psychology, 7 (15): 257-274.
Woodrow, L. J. & Chapman, E. (2002) Second language speaking anxiety of learners of English for academic purposes in Australia. AARE Conference Proceedings. WOO02227 <http://www.aare.edu.au/02pap/woo02227.htm>