Lucy Sun
Associate Lecturer and Learning Skills Adviser
B.Ed (University of Hong Kong), M.Ed, TESOL (University of Sydney)
Contact Campus |
Launceston |
Building |
Student Centre, Building Y |
Room Reference |
Y 245 |
Telephone |
61 3 6324 3735 |
Fax |
61 3 6324 3788 |
Lucy joined the University of Tasmania in 2006 in the capacity of an English Language Support for International Students (ELSIS) Co-coordinator. In 2011, she became one of the Learning Skills Advisers of the Student Learning and Academic Development Team. She supports the development of English language and academic skills of all students enrolled in degree programmes through individual consultations and workshops. She also works in collaboration with academic and professional staff of the School of Nursing & Midwifery, the School of Architecture and the Clinical School in Launceston to focus on the specific needs of their students.
Lucy has more than twenty years of teaching and research experience. She taught English language in a secondary school in Hong Kong for eight years before she took up research work and teaching in tertiary education. She researched into the learning difficulties of students from various faculties in a Hong Kong university and developed cognitive, motivational and interpersonal strategies for learning. She taught discipline-specific academic and professional English to university students studying Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Economics, Business Administration, Science and Engineering. She also taught basic writing skills and effective communication to adult learners in continuing education programmes. In 2005, she moved to Tasmania and has since worked in a language and development role at UTAS.
Lucy is interested in the development of cultural awareness and communication strategies of students. Currently, she is one of the co-investigators of the Cultural Competence Project run by the Faculty of Health Science and the Division of Students and Education of UTAS. She is also pursuing her own studies and research in the provision of language support which takes academic, cultural and professional contexts into consideration.