Germana has taught across the TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Initial Teacher Education and Australian Language and Culture programs at UTS.

Subjects she has been involved with include:

Language Teaching Methodology
Literacy and Numeracy across the Curriculum
Professional Experience subjects
Classroom Talk
Language in Use
ELT Practices
Language Development
Language and Power
Programming, Assessment and Evaluation
Learning Academic English
Academic Literacies in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Academic English (for Exchange and Study Abroad tertiary students)
Teaching English to International Students

Main themes covered in the above subjects include:
Academic Literacies

Systemic Functional Linguistics and its application in the classroom

Scaffolding and the teaching/ learning cycle
Systemic Functional Linguistics and Genre- based approaches to teaching literacies
ICT, Technology Enhanced Learning; using Multimodal and online resources to teach language and literacies
International education and teaching English to international students; EFL, ESL, EOL and EAL/D
TESOL & LOTE teaching methodologies, skills and strategies
L1 and L2 Language Development
Translanguaging perspectives in learning contexts
Curriculum design/programming
Diversity & social justice issues in education
Teacher identity & teacher development
Sociolinguistics and the relationship between language & culture
Globalisation, pedagogy and curriculum content
Learner assessment and course evaluation
English as a Lingua Franca, global Englishes, and language and power

DrGermana Eckert

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