Lisl Fenwick

Lisl Fenwick is Senior Lecturer in Professional Experience at UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia. Her research investigates how genre pedagogy and dialogic teaching approaches support disciplinary literacy development, particularly in science education contexts.

Research focuses on:

• Language-based pedagogy in content areas
• Systemic functional linguistics applications
• Classroom dialogue strategies
• Curriculum design impacts
• Science text comprehension

Recent publications examine how teachers facilitate student discussions about disciplinary language during text analysis activities. Fenwick's work demonstrates that intentional language scaffolding improves student engagement with scientific texts and concepts.

As research degree supervisor, Fenwick mentors graduate students investigating literacy practices across educational contexts.