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Jane Torr is an Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor at the Macquarie School of Education, Macquarie University. Her research focuses on language development in early childhood, educator-child interactions, and literacy practices in diverse settings. Key areas include infant communication, bilingual education, and the role of multimodal discourse in learning.
Her projects explore topics such as educator-infant talk in childcare centers, literacy-oriented interactions during shared reading, and the impact of technology in language education. She has conducted studies on cross-cultural parent-child communication, the effectiveness of tablet-based learning tools, and the quality of early childhood pedagogy.
Notable contributions include analyzing mealtime conversations as language-learning contexts, evaluating children’s television for educational value, and investigating the linguistic diversity in early childhood settings. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks like systemic functional linguistics with practical applications in educational practices.
- Key Projects:
- Investigating educator-infant talk and peer interactions in childcare (2014–2021)
- Literacy-oriented talk in mother-child reading interactions (2014)
- Quality of educator-infant interactions in childcare (2013)
- Research Themes:
- Infant language acquisition
- Multilingual education
- Technology in early language learning
- Pedagogical discourse analysis
