Greg Restall is a Senior Lecturer in UniSA Education Futures and is the Program Director for the Master of Education program. His teaching and doctoral supervision focuses on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in local and international education settings. His research draws on his professional and academic expertise in digital technologies and languages education.
Greg majored in French language and literature and Chinese language and literature in his undergraduate studies; completed methodologies in modern languages and TESOL in his graduate teaching qualification in secondary education; studied and conducted research on language and culture in education in his Masters degree; and researched online... Read more
About me
Greg Restall is a Senior Lecturer in UniSA Education Futures and is the Program Director for the Master of Education program. His teaching and doctoral supervision focuses on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in local and international education settings. His research draws on his professional and academic expertise in digital technologies and languages education.
Greg majored in French language and literature and Chinese language and literature in his undergraduate studies; completed methodologies in modern languages and TESOL in his graduate teaching qualification in secondary education; studied and conducted research on language and culture in education in his Masters degree; and researched online collaborative learning in his doctoral studies.
Greg conducts postgraduate teaching in blended and collaborative teaching spaces and his research focuses on the application of socio-linguistic, socio-cultural and collaborative learning theories to a range of educational circumstances, such as classroom pedagogies, pre-service teacher off-shore mobility programs, professional learning communities, intercultural collaborations, and online and virtual learning environments. His publications include a co-authored book chapter on Asia Literacy in the Australian schooling context, co-authored journal articles on team-based learning as a pedagogical strategy in higher education contexts, various co-authored articles with doctoral candidates under his supervision, and a co-authored article from a recent recent research project on immersive virtual reality to improve communicative competence in South Korean learners of English.
Greg was Program Director of the Master of Education program(s) for six years from 2011 to 2017 and has taught mostly on the Master of Education (TESOL) program. He will resume this role in 2024. He has supervised numerous doctoral students in TESOL to completion and currently is supervising six doctoral students.
Greg has been awarded New Colombo Plan funding to manage study tours to South Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam, and has also managed self-funded international study tours and internship programs. In doing so, he has researched intercultural learning for Australian pre-service teachers and its influence on their professional identity development and presented the findings at both the ACTA 2018 conference in Adelaide and at Universitas Indonesia in Depok, West Java.
Greg was awarded DFAT funding from the Australia-Korea Foundation to lead a small team in the development of immersive virtual reality modules with embedded language learning resources to support the development of spoken communicative competence amongst South Korean secondary school students of English. The project commenced in late September 2021 and was completed in July 2022. Greg presented the findings with team members at the ACTA 2022 conference in Brisbane, at the SEAMEO-RETRAC TESOL conference in Ho Chi Minh City and at the KATE and KAMALL conferences in South Korea.
Greg is on the committee of SA TESOL, and has involvement with Educators SA and ACTA.
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University
Master of Educational Studies The University of Adelaide
Graduate Diploma of Education South Australian College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Education The University of Adelaide
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages);
Asia Literacy;
Collaborative Learning:
- in online and virtual learning communities
- in team-based, flipped and blended learning arrangements
- in teacher/educator professional learning communities
- in intercultural or transcultural educational settings using multilingual resources
Immersive Virtual Reality for communicative competence development in EFL settings.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
Open access
42
19
1
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
4
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2015 |
Open access
42
19
1
|
Research
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages);
Asia Literacy;
Collaborative Learning:
- in online and virtual learning communities
- in team-based, flipped and blended learning arrangements
- in teacher/educator professional learning communities
- in intercultural or transcultural educational settings using multilingual resources
Immersive Virtual Reality for communicative competence development in EFL settings.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Islamic University of Malang | INDONESIA |
| STKIP Yapis Dompu | INDONESIA |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | UNITED STATES |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Academic Board MemberTabor College |
2021 |
Board MemberTabor College, Adelaide and Perth |
2021 |
PresidentSouth Australian Educators Association for TESOL (SA TESOL) |
2021 |
Academic Board MemberTabor College |
2020 |
Board MemberTabor College, Adelaide and Perth |
2020 |
PresidentSouth Australian Educators Association for TESOL (SA TESOL) |
2020 |
Academic Board MemberTabor College |
2019 |
Board MemberTabor College, Adelaide and Perth |
2019 |
PresidentSouth Australian Educators Association for TESOL (SA TESOL) |
2019 |
MemberSouth Australian Educators Association for TESOL (SA TESOL) |
2018 |
MemberSouth Australian Educators Association for TESOL (SA TESOL) |
2017 |
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| `Exploring embedded cross cultural NVC/B emotional value among an Australian primary class: raising awareness through a film based project' | Current |
| 111053 - Developing the Communicative Competence of International STEM Students through Immersive Virtual Reality | Current |
| An investigation of the influence of TEFL on secondary school students¿ learning of intercultural communicative competence in China: An Exploratory Case Study | Current |
| Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) to develop listening skills of adult migrant students in the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program in foundation skills, TAFE SA | Current |
| Language and cultural adjustment to mainstream learning in regional secondary schools: migrant and refugee student experiences | Current |
| Moving beyond linguistic competence: Investigating communicative competence development through interactional VR environmentsv | Current |
| Supporting Chinese migrants in Australia: Examining the potential of emerging technologies | Current |
| An investigation into learning for ethical leadership in a law enforcement environment | Completed |
| An investigation of how cultural factors influence Australian Aboriginal students¿ reading performance: an exploratory and participatory case study | Completed |
| Contextual and individual factors influencing grammar learning: a case study at a university in Indonesia | Completed |
| Developing English language proficiency among migrant and refugee teenagers: mediation through mobile devices. | Completed |
| English as an international language (EIL) : relationship to English studies in the Asia-Pacific region | Completed |
| IELTS test takers¿ perceived use of reading strategies in testing and non-testing situations: a sequential mixed methods study | Completed |
| Language learning beyond the classroom (LBC): a case study of secondary school English language learners in a rural Indonesian pesantren | Completed |
| Learner-centeredness in teachers¿ beliefs and practices: a study of secondary teachers of English as a foreign language in China | Completed |
| Learning to speak English in a second language classroom at a Malaysian public university: a sociocognitive case study | Completed |
| Managing curriculum change: project-based learning with Thai undergraduate English learners | Completed |
| Navigating through identities: A case of Iranian first generation migrants in South Australia | Completed |
| Teaching writing in a Thai university context: considerations for introducing a genre-based approach | Completed |
| The attributes of an effective educator in cultural perspective: a case study of Saudi international students studying English for Academic Purposes in Australia | Completed |
| Uptake and retention of (re)source-rich feedback on academic writing for adult learners of English | Completed |
| Willingness to communicate in English among Chinese postgraduate business majors in Australia: a longitudinal study | Completed |
