Julia’s background is in Romance languages and TESOL. Her current research interests include pedagogical lexicography and English idioms (the subject of her ongoing PhD); anglicisms in modern European Portuguese; the English article system; and the teaching of English prepositions to non-native speakers of English. She has also produced a DVD on academic oral presentation skills and recently published her first novel. She is currently employed in the Student Learning Centre at Flinders University in Australia, where she is a lecturer in academic skills and ESL.
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