About
Dr. Linh Tran is an education-focused Lecturer at the School of Educational Psychology & Counselling, Monash University, Australia. She specializes in initial teacher education and master’s-level coursework, with extensive experience in TESOL/EAL education across higher education, adult migrant programs (AMEP), and English language institutes (ELICOS). Her teaching portfolio includes units on second language assessment, curriculum development, and adolescent learning.
Education:
- PhD in Teacher Education (Language), Monash University (2017)
- Master of TESOL, VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2005)
Research Focus: Dr. Tran investigates TESOL pedagogy, multilingual education, and teacher development through sociocultural lenses. Her work emphasizes affordances in educational contexts, language assessment innovations, and policy impacts on classroom practices. Research themes include digital literacy in linguistically diverse settings and task-based teaching methodologies.
Publication Trends: Recent outputs analyze digital plurilingual strategies (2024), teacher educators’ experiential influences on pedagogy (2022), and policy-driven reforms in Vietnamese teacher training (2019). Common threads include sociocultural theory applications, cross-cultural education, and transformative language teaching practices.
