Rate My Professor Jill Murray

Dr. Jill Murray is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, where she serves as a lecturer and researcher following retirement from full-time academic work. She teaches postgraduate units on pragmatics, intercultural communication, and the role of context in language teaching and learning. With many years of experience as a teacher and teacher educator, Murray lived and worked in Greece early in her career. She holds a PhD and commenced a major research project on Greek-Australians in 2015. Murray supervises research on language maintenance and shift and is a member of the Macquarie Multilingualism Research Centre as well as an associate member of the Centre for Ageing Cognition and Wellbeing.

Her research specializations include the teaching and learning of pragmatics; assessment of pragmatic competence in specialist contexts, such as overseas-trained professionals seeking work in Australia; language test design and impact; experiences of Greek-Australians in homeland contexts; language maintenance and shift in community languages; and presentation of pragmatic information in EFL, ESL, and heritage language teaching materials. Key projects include Primary Chief Investigator for the Multilingualism Research Centre (2019–2022), "Lifelong language learning: a mixed method study of the experiences of older learners and their teachers" (2019), and "A qualitative study of pragmatic competence and migrant identity: sociolinguistic and pedagogical implications" (2015). Murray's major publications encompass "Enhancing Huber’s evaluation framework for teacher professional development programme" (2024, with W. Hiew, Professional Development in Education), "Migrant grandparents in Australia: English learning and well-being" (2024, with A. Chik, ELT Journal), "‘Without the video I wouldn't have known’: an experienced EFL teacher learning to provide oral corrective feedback" (2024, with X.V. Ha and B.L. Reynolds, International Journal of Applied Linguistics), "Corrective feedback: beliefs and practices of Vietnamese primary EFL teachers" (2023, with X. Ha, Language Teaching Research), "High school EFL students’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback: the role of gender, motivation and extraversion" (2021, with X.V. Ha and A.M. Riazi, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching), "The impact of a professional development program on EFL teachers’ beliefs about corrective feedback" (2021, with X. Van Ha, System), and "Pragmatic content in EFL textbooks: an investigation into Vietnamese national teaching materials" (2020, with A.T. Ton Nu, TESL-EJ).