Andrea Paul

Andrea Paul is a lecturer in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning & Teaching for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne. She provides language and communication skills support to students in the clinical years of the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery degree. Her research interests include: the application of systemic functional linguistics to inform the teaching of language/communication skills in discipline specific contexts; the relationship between discourse features and their effect on social, professional and academic interaction; and the relationship between text and visual images in the construction and decoding of meaning. Andrea has worked as an ESL/EFL teacher in various countries, and in a range of institutions and programs, including a secondary immersion program in Japan and postgraduate language development university courses in Australia.