Judy Cross

Judie Cross is a teacher and researcher at Wollongong and Macquarie Universities. Prior to this, she was Senior Head Teacher (Languages) at Sydney Institute of TAFE, where her role included development and implementation of language preparation courses for overseas trained teachers.

Judie’s interest in researching the impact of language assessment arose directly from her experiences working with test candidates. Togethe with Jill Murray, she has published several articles on the attitudes and motivation of candidates undertaking high stakes tests. Her other main areas of research interest are: the blended delivery of training for overseas trained and TESOL teachers; communication and literacy practices; multimodality, and curriculum design.