STAFF PROFILE
Dr Anamaria Ducasse
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399259769
Email:
anamaria.ducasse@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Ana Maria Ducasse is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Studies in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
Ana Maria Ducasse is an English/Spanish Bilingual/Bicultural Applied Linguist teaching Spanish language and culture at all proficiency levels, and sociolinguistics in the Bachelor of International Studies.
Her current research interests are Higher Education Classroom Based Language Assessment and Feedback. She also researches in the areas of discourse analysis, language teaching and English for Academic Purposes.
Awards
- 2022 Fellow of HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia)
- 2011 La Trobe University Vice Chancelors Award for teaching excellence awarded to the Spanish Program
- 2009 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding contribution to Student learning : for developing innovative assessment and curriculum practices which develop effective communication skills and engage learning with content in a bilingual subject
- 2008 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding contribution to Student learning
Grants
- 2020: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Grant (with J. Coburn, , M. Northcote, L. Partridge, N. Samarawickrema and L. Swiatek)
- 2014-2017: EMO-FUNDETT funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FFI2013-47792-C2-1-P). Projects: EMO-FUNDETT EMOTION and EMO-FUNDETT PERSUASION
- 2011: International Language Testing Association (ILTA) with Javier Menéndez and Juan Robisco: from Instituto Cervantes Manila: Testing Spanish as a foreign language in secondary schools in the Philippines.
- 2011: Comparing TOEFLiBT™ speaking tasks with real world academic speaking tasks: Tasks performance features and assessment. Educational Testing Service Board of Examiners grant with Dr Annie Brown Australian Council of Educational Research
- 2009: Completed: IDP Australia grant principal investigator, collaborating with Dr Annie Brown. ‘The role of interactive communication in IELTS speaking and its impact on candidates’ preparedness for study or training contexts’. IELTS
- 2009: Spanish Cultural Cooperation Grant Ministry of Education and Culture with Dr Lilit Thwaites.
Current research projects
- 2021-2025: Inter_ecodal
Current key activities and roles
- Senior Lecturer, Spanish Studies
- Director, Spanish Resource Centre
- Member, Centre for Global Research
Teaching (undergraduate and postgraduate)
- PhD, Language testing The University of Melbourne 2009
- MAppLing The University of Melbourne 1995
- DipEd (LOTE-TESOL) Spanish/French/Italian 1983
- BA (Spanish/Hons) 1982
Undergraduate studies comprised French, Italian and language and culture, Spanish Honours and a major in English Linguistics.
Member of editorial committee
- Papers in Language Testing and Assessment
Reviewer for:
- Applied Linguistics
- Assessing Writing
- Educational Assessment
- Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
- Language Assessment Quarterly
- Language Testing
- Studies in Second Language Learning
- System
- Publons public link
Professional interests
- Asian Association for Language Assessment: AALA
- ALAA (The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia)
- Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ)
- European Association for Language Testing and Assessment
- HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia)
- International Language Testing Association (ILTA)
- LCNAU – Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities
- Ducasse, A. (2022). Oral Reflection Tasks: Advanced Spanish L2 Learner Insights on Emergency Remote Teaching Assessment Practices in a Higher Education Context In: Languages, 7, 1 - 18
- Hill, K.,Ducasse, A. (2020). Advancing Written Feedback Practice Through a Teacher-Researcher Collaboration in a University Spanish Program In: Toward a Reconceptualization of Second Language Classroom Assessment: Praxis and Researcher-teacher Partnership, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
- Ducasse, A. (2020). Evidence-based persuasion: A cross-cultural analysis of entrepreneurial pitch in English and Spanish In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 18, 492 - 510
- Ducasse, A.,Maher, B. (2020). Teaching and Assessing Language and Culture Through Translation In: Intersections in Language Planning and Policy, Springer, Netherlands
- Ducasse, A.,Brown, A. (2020). Contextualised judgements: A comparison of the rating criteria used to judge oral presentations in higher education and speaking performances in the TOEFL iBT™ In: Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, 9, 22 - 42
- Ducasse, A. (2019). Developing student feedback literacy using educational technology and the reflective feedback conversation In: Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 12, 24 - 37
- Ducasse, A. (2019). Raters and the social dimension of scale revision for Spanish L1 Graduate Writing Skills: The case of the Saber Pro In: Social perspectives on language testing. Papers in honour of Tim McNamara, Peter Lang GmbH, Germany
- Brown, A.,Ducasse, A. (2019). An Equal Challenge? Comparing TOEFL iBT™ Speaking Tasks with Academic Speaking Tasks In: Language Assessment Quarterly, 16, 253 - 270
- Ducasse, A.,Hill, K. (2015). Development of a Spanish generic writing skills scale for the Colombian Graduate Skills Assessment (SaberPro) In: Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, 4, 18 - 33
- Ducasse, A. (2014). Talking and learning: A cross a faculty exploratory study through curriculum documents, lecturers' interviews and class observations In: ICERI 2014 Proceedings, Seville, Spain, 17-19 November 2014
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
3 PhD Completions
Analysing communication and language primarily in assessment settings; discourse analysis and qualitative research methodologies; Second language teaching and learning, Language and identity