About
Biography
Dr Michael Carey has taught and conducted research within linguistics since 1992 in the fields of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), speech science (perception and pronunciation modification), academic writing, language testing and assessment, and preparation for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
Michael has published curriculum materials on IELTS preparation and journal articles on placement testing and high-stakes testing. He has won several competitive research grants within the field of language testing and for international development projects aimed at building the capacity of English teachers in Indonesia. For his work in Indonesia he has been awarded an Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning as a member of the IPG "For stimulating systemic educational reform in Indonesian Papua through a unique, outcome-driven teacher education program for students within an Australian university".
Dr Carey's teaching role at USC includes teaching language and literacy courses. In 2014 he was awarded a Commonwealth Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Individual Citation) “For excellence in developing curricula, resources and services that improve the English language skills and knowledge of pre-service teachers, colleagues and the wider student cohort”. He also supervises a number of Masters and PhD research students in various fields of linguistics.
Expert Media Commentary
Dr Michael Carey is an applied linguist and English language teacher educator with an interest in raising awareness and acceptance of non-mainstream forms of English language spoken and written discourse: international and transcultural English voices. He is highly-cited for his research investigating English speaking test rater bias in high stakes international speaking tests.
Research areas
- language and literacy in English language education
- teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)
- language acquisition
- language proficiency testing and assessment
- grammar and discourse style in written texts
- pronunciation instruction
Teaching areas
- The English Language
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Interlanguage Phonology
- Language, Culture and Second Language Learning
Supervision
PhD supervision completions
As principal supervisor
- Ibrahim, Abed (2015). Teaching and Learning of English in Libyan Universities. A case study investigating the English language teaching knowledge of Libyan pre-service teachers of English in Libya.
- Sweeting, Arizio (2021). From "Cinderella" to "Sleeping Beauty": Taking pronunciation instruction on the CELTA course beyond “listen and repeat”.
- Bytheway, Julie (2021). Connecting to Figure Out How to Teach ESOL: A Grounded Theory.
- Fiharsono, Albertus (2021). Culturally-Based Learning Needs of Indigenous Students of Indonesian Papua.
- Szocs, Stefan (2022). A neural and behavioural analysis of speaking test rater assessment of familiar and unfamiliar pronunciation in two presentation modes: audio-only and audio-visual.
As co-supervisor
- Nataprawira, Halim. (2018). Recognising the sociolinguistic reality of spoken Indonesian: a corpus and usage analysis of a middle diglossic variant.
- Gardiner, Michael. (2019). Understanding value in the market and social research context.
- Smith, Anthony. (2020). Assessing the practice competence of undergraduate students in paramedicine in Australia and New Zealand: A grounded Theory Study.