Research Interests
Language focused content teaching, listening skills, teacher development, classroom-based second language acquisition.
 

Qualifications
BA, MA, (Wellington) Dip Tchg, Dip ELT.

Biography
A former primary and secondary school teacher Susan Gray has been Programme Leader of the Graduate Diploma in TESSOL since 1995. She teaches courses in task-based language across the curriculum and materials design. She has also been involved in school-based professional development of teachers in New Zealand, and worked with teacher educators in Kiribati and Vietnam. Her doctoral research examined the way pairs of secondary content teachers drew on the theoretical input from their TESSOL programme to take a language focus in content teaching. Susan is CoEditor of the TESOLANZ Journal, chair of the AUT Language Teacher Education Advisory Committee and a member of the Ministry of Education National Reference Group for Literacy as well as holding a number of other advisory roles.
 

Publications

• Contribution to Diversity chapter in V, Carpenter, H. Dixon, E. Rata, and C. Rawlinson (Eds) (2000) Theory in Practice for Educators Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
• Gray, S.M (1999) More to learn: The development of planning frameworks English in Aotearoa 38, 7-11.
• White, C & S. M. Gray (1999) Creating a culture of respect: A state secondary school’s journey Set 1(1) 1-4.