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• Margaret Merga is a lecturer and researcher working in the areas of adolescent literacy, English curriculum and education. She has taught in Australia and internationally. She currently lectures at Murdoch University, where she is a unit coordinator...More

  Margaret Merga is a lecturer and researcher working in the areas of adolescent literacy, English curriculum and education. She has taught in Australia and internationally. She currently lectures at Murdoch University, where she is a unit coordinator for English and the Curriculum units in the School of Education. Margaret is keenly interested in exploring the impact of social influences on recreational book reading. In 2012 she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake the West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading, which examined adolescents’ attitudes toward reading books for recreation, and the impact of social influences on adolescent engagement in the practice. She has had finding from this study published across many Australian and international journals. Less

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