Katina Zammit

Associate Professor Katina Zammit is a leading literacy education specialist currently serving as President of the Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA) and on the ALEA Sydney West Local Council. She holds a leadership position with the International Literacy Association (ILA) for the 2024-2027 term and serves on the International Development of Oceania Committee, supporting literacy initiatives in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and the Cook Islands.

Her research focuses on critical areas of literacy education:

• Student engagement strategies for disadvantaged learners
• Writing pedagogy and development
• Multiliteracies and translanguaging practices
• Teacher professional development
• Connections between pedagogical changes and student outcomes

Zammit actively collaborates with schools to improve literacy outcomes for socio-economically disadvantaged and culturally linguistically diverse students. She contributes to evidence-based literacy practices through ALEA's professional journals: Practical Literacy in the Primary and Early Years, Literacy Learning the Middle Years, and Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. Her work emphasizes practical applications of research in classroom settings to bridge theory and practice in literacy education.