Fiona Cotton

Fiona Cotton (BA, Dip Ed, RSA Cert TESOL, M App Ling) was until recently Senior Lecturer in English Communication at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. She is founder of the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) Unit and coordinated the program from 2006-2009, for which she won a Learning and Teaching Award in 2006. Before being employed in her current position, she taught ESL for many years in Asia and Australia. Her current teaching and research interests include academic writing and literacy development in university contexts. She has been an IELTS examiner since 1994.