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My teaching expertise and interests fall into three key areas: The application of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre theories to the study of language and academic discourse in order to develop students' knowledge and skills in academic literacy. This includes the study of learning context and theory, collaborative learning in the discourse community and apprenticeship in academic reading and writing for the improvement of learning outcomes and graduate attributes. Pedagogical approach to teaching and learning in higher education, in particular the deployment of educational technology to provide flexible and blended learning. Educational design, using the pattern-based approach to develop reusable and sharable resources for the support of teaching and learning. Educational design patterns capture and share well proven experience, knowledge and practices and can be used to provide new teachers with principles and guidelines for their work.