Dr. Ana Maria Ducasse
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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anamaria.ducasse@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1970-6671
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Collaborative projects
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Media enquiries
About
Dr Ana Maria Ducasse, Senior Lecturer Spanish Studies, Global and Language Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT Melbourne..
Ana Maria Ducasse is an English/Spanish Bilingual/Bicultural Applied Linguist teaching Spanish language and culture at all proficiency levels in the Bachelor of International Studies, and sociolinguistics Masters of Global Studies and Masters of Interpreting and Translating.
Her current research interests are Higher Education Classroom Based Language Assessment and Feedback and AI LLM language bias effects on research. She also researches and supervises in the areas of discourse analysis, language teaching and English for Academic Purposes.
Awards:
2024 Erasmus +
2022 Fellow of HERDSA Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
2017 Erasmus +
2011 La Trobe University Vice Chancelors Award for teaching excellence awarded to the Spanish Program
2009 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding contribution to Student learning: for developing innovative assessment and curriculum practices
2008 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding contribution to Student learning: developing effective communication skills and engage learning with content in a bilingual subject
Industry Experience:
Office of Tertiary and Further Education course writing ESL Literacy
NEAS accreditation as Director of Studies for an ELICOS centre
Australian Language Level test checking for ACER
VCE Spanish exam writing
Professional interests-
Asian Association for Language Assessment: AALA
ALAA (The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia)
Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ)
European Association for Language Testing and Assessment
HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia)
International Language Testing Association (ILTA)
LCNAU – Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities
Reviewer for:
Applied Linguistics
Assessing Writing
Educational Assessment
Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
Language Assessment Quarterly
Language Testing
Studies in Second Language Learning
System
Publons public link (https://publons.com/researcher/1551650/ana-maria-ducasse/)
Research fields
- 3904 Specialist studies in education
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 4703 Language studies
- 470310 Iberian languages
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 4 Quality Education
- 17 Partnerships for the Goals
Degrees
- Bachelor Degree (Honours) Level, Language and Literature
- Monash University
- Australia
- 1983
- Doctorate Research, Society and Culture
- University of Melbourne
- Australia
- 2009
- Graduate Diploma, Teacher Education
- Monash University
- Australia
- 1984
- Masters Degree by Coursework, Teacher Education
- University of Melbourne
- Australia
- 1998
Supervisor projects
- Conceptualizations of Love in Saudi Arabic
- 1 Aug 2024
- Australia-Based International Students' Development of Intercultural Competence
- 1 Aug 2024
- The influence of linkages between Latin America and Latin Europe on international student mobility: The case of Australia as the destination country
- 25 Jun 2024
- Language Culture & International Education
- 29 Jan 2024
- Intentional Teaching Gestures in the Additional Language Classroom and how they can minimise the need for Teacher Interruptions.
- 30 Jun 2023
- A Cultural Linguistics Approach to Humour Translation: A Persian Study
- 28 Apr 2021
- Language Teachers’ Writing Assessment and Feedback Practices in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Classes at University Level in Pakistan
- 1 Feb 2018
Teaching interests
Course options at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level
LANG1325 / 1390 - Language and Society (12 CP)
SOCU1049 / LANG - Language in the Global Workplace (12 CP)
LANG1409 / LANG1168 / LANG1177 - Spanish 1 (12 CP)
LANG1432 / LANG1200 / LANG1201 - Spanish 4 (12 CP)
LANG1433 / LANG1208 / LANG1207 - Spanish 5 (12 CP)
LANG1278 / LANG1294 - Spanish Language and Society (12 CP)
Research interests
Linguistics, Specialist Studies in Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Education Systems, Language Studies
Current research projects-
2021-2025: Inter_ecodal (https://www.upf.edu/web/ecodal/miembros-interecodal)
Current supervision projects
