Toan Pham is a lecturer and tutor in TESOL and applied linguistics. He has teaching and research experience in both Australian and overseas environments. He has worked at UniSA since 2015, in roles of a tutor, lecturer and coordinator in Applied Linguistics in UniSA Justice & Society and especially in the TESOL area in UniSA Education Futures, delivering both on-campus and online core courses of undergraduate and Master degrees. Prior to Australia, he worked as a tertiary TESOL lecturer in Vietnam, where his work was closely associated with school-based teaching and learning.
His research interest areas include TESOL especially English Medium Instruction (EMI), Interlanguage Pragmatic... Read more
About me
Toan Pham is a lecturer and tutor in TESOL and applied linguistics. He has teaching and research experience in both Australian and overseas environments. He has worked at UniSA since 2015, in roles of a tutor, lecturer and coordinator in Applied Linguistics in UniSA Justice & Society and especially in the TESOL area in UniSA Education Futures, delivering both on-campus and online core courses of undergraduate and Master degrees. Prior to Australia, he worked as a tertiary TESOL lecturer in Vietnam, where his work was closely associated with school-based teaching and learning.
His research interest areas include TESOL especially English Medium Instruction (EMI), Interlanguage Pragmatic Development, and Language and Culture in Education. His PhD research, completed in 2013, focused on Interlanguage Pragmatic Development of Vietnamese Learners of English as an Additional Language. He has been working collaboratively on several projects in EMI and Higher Education.
He is currently co-ordinating and teaching Learning English as an Additional Language (EDUC 5180), Theories and Theorists of learning and Development (EDUC 5220) and Curriculum and Evaluation in TESOL (EDUC 5112). He has also been co-teaching English for Academic Use in Australia (LANG 1052), Language in Society (LANG 1056), Intercultural Communication (LANG 1054), Research in Education (EDUC 5030) and English Language Studies (LANG 46).
About me
SA TESOL – South Australian Association for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
VietTESOL Association – Vietnam Association of English Language Teaching and Research
TESOL Researchers Group (TRG), School of Education, University of South Australia
Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia
Vietnam EMI Club
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
2015-date: Course coordinator, lecturer and tutor School of Education, School of Creative industries, UniSA College – University of South Australia
1995-2015: Lecturer in TESOL, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam
2012-2013: TESOL Teacher, Adelaide Hills Community Centre
2006-2009: Chairman of Board, course coordinator and teacher of English SG Foreign Language Centre, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
2009 Vietnam Ministry of Education & Training – University of South Australia President’s Postgraduate Scholarship
2005 Vietnam National University President’s Award for Academic Excellence
1999 Visiting Scholar Award, Auckland College of Education, New Zealand
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Dialogic practice with multilingual learners of English, Adelaide Secondary School of English, 01/03/2023 - 30/04/2024
2020 Current situation and solutions to developing student teachers’ reflective and reflexive practice – a project funded by Quy Nhon University (2020-2021), with Dr Linh Bui.
2019 English as a medium of instruction in Vietnamese higher education of social sciences and humanities: current situation and solutions for international integration – a project funded by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (2019-2020), with Dr Ngoc Doan, Dr Cuong Pham, Dr Min Pham, Dr Trang Nguyen, Dr Tuan Anh Nguyen, Dr Kham Tran.
2017 Institutional links to address issues in higher education in Vietnam – a project funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2017-2018), with Dr Ngoc Doan, Dr Jenny Barnett, Dr David Caldwell, Dr Kathleen Heugh, Dr Min Pham, Dr Toan Pham, Dr Kham Tran.
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
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2018 |
6
1
1
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Book chapter
Toan Pham and Jenny Barnett. (ongoing). Student perspectives on EMI at Vietnamese universities: Agency at the intersection of policy, curriculum and pedagogy in EMI practices for higher education in Vietnam: Multi-disciplinary classroom narratives, Min Pham and Jenny Barnett (Ed.)
Journal articles
Toan Pham & Nga Nguyen. (2015). Thanking in Vietnamese and Australian English, Language and Life, 9, pp. 13-20
Toan Pham. (2013). The influence of social distance on expressions of gratitude in Vietnamese. The internet Journal Language, Culture and Society, no 36, pp. 88-101
Toan Pham & Nga Nguyen. (2008). Teaching gambits to English non-major students at tertiary level. Journal of Science. Quy Nhon University, Vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 95-100
Toan Pham. (2007). From the saying: “One should select words to please one another” to the appropriateness in linguistic behaviour. Language and Life, no. 6-2007, pp. 42-44
Toan Pham. (2005). Vocabulary Puzzle. Teacher’s Edition, no. 17, pp. 38-39
Textbooks
Toan Pham & Nga Nguyen. (2008). English for electronics and computer science. Quy Nhon University, Vietnam
Toan Pham. (2005). Listening Activities 4. Quy Nhon University, Vietnam
Toan Pham. (2004). Listening Activities 3. Quy Nhon University, Vietnam
Toan Pham. (2003). Listening Activities 2. Quy Nhon University, Vietnam
Conference presentations and proceedings
Kham Tran, Toan Pham & Cuong Pham (2018), University Student Experiences in EMI Programs in Vietnam: Implications for Curriculum Development and Classroom Pedagogy, English as medium of instruction in university social sciences in Vietnam: Policies and pedagogies, co-organised by the University of South Australia-School of Education, and the Vietnam National University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi. December 2018.
Toan Pham. (2013). Interlanguage pragmatic development: Expressions of gratitude under the effect of social distance, International IJAS Conference for Academic Discipline, organized at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. March 2013
Toan Pham. (2011). The influence of social distance on linguistic behaviours: A study on expressions of gratitude in Vietnamese. ALAA-ALANZ Conference, organized at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. November 2011
Research
2009 Vietnam Ministry of Education & Training – University of South Australia President’s Postgraduate Scholarship
2005 Vietnam National University President’s Award for Academic Excellence
1999 Visiting Scholar Award, Auckland College of Education, New Zealand
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Vietnam National University, Hanoi | VIET NAM |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
MemberSA TESOL |
2022 |
MemberVietTESOL Association |
2022 |
MemberVietnam EMI Club |
2022 |
Member, VietTESOL Association – Vietnam Association of English Language Teaching and Research
Member: SA TESOL – South Australian Association for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Member: Vietnam EMI Club
Networks with universities and institutions throughout Vietnam including Vietnam National University – Hanoi, Danang University, Quy Nhon University, Ho Chi Minh Open University and SEAMEO RETRAC
Voluntary work for pre-departure organization of Vietnam study tour – Columbo Plan, School of Education, University of South Australia (2019)
Scholar Exchange Program by Quy Nhon University, Vietnam and Champasak University, Laos: organizing and delivering a series of workshops on English language teaching methodology for teachers of English at Champasak University, Laos. (2008)
Scholar Exchange Award offered by Auckland College of Education, New Zealand: Exchanging experience in English language teaching methodology and intercultural teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (1999)
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| 111053 - Developing the Communicative Competence of International STEM Students through Immersive Virtual Reality | Current |
