Dr Mirella Wyra

Academic Level C

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 82012392

mirella.wyra@flinders.edu.au

Bedford Park (5.71)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Mirella Wyra is a senior lecturer in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

Qualifications

PhD; B.Ed. (Lang) (Hons.); B.A.

Honours, awards and grants

Askell-Williams, H., Lawson, M.J., Slee, P., Wyra, M., Skrzypiec, G.:Flinders Large Grant Living and Learning at School: A Longitudinal Study (2010-2012)

Wyra, M. Large Research Project Grant. Mental Imagery and the keyword method. (2013 - 2015)

Tsianikas, M., Wyra, M., Palaktsoglou, M., & Litinas, A. (2014) OLT Seed Grant Application 2014- Development of guide for online dynamic assessment of foreign language speaking (submitted)

Early Career Training School Fellowship (2012)

Mace Bearer, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law Graduation Ceremony, Flinders University (2013)

Mace Bearer, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work Graduation Ceremony, Flinders University (2018)

Key responsibilities

Director, Teaching Program (Continuing Professional Education)
Chair, Continuing Professional Education Committee
Chair, Postgraduate Examination Board
Coordinator Master of Education and Graduate Certificate in Education
Coordinator Master of Education Languages Education specialisation
Coordinator Languages Curriculum and Methodology (BEd and MTeach)
Member Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee
Member FEFRI Management Committee
Member Research Higher Degrees Committee

Teaching interests

Teaching areas

Languages Education
Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice
ICT in Languages Education

Topic coordinator

EDUC9704 Exploring Languages Pedagogy - Theory and Practice

EDUC9705 Developing Literacies Through Intercultural Language Learning

EDUC9706 Visualising Language Learning

EDUC3527 Investigating Languages Pedagogy in the Integrated Curriculum (Primary R-7)

EDUC4831 Exploring Literacies and Intercultural Contexts in Languages Pedagogy (Primary R-7)

EDUC9733 The Psychology of Learning and Instruction

EDUC9708 New technologies and e-pedagogy in foreign language education

EDUC9234 Professional Experience 1 and Languages Pedagogy (Primary R-7)

EDUC9313 Languages, Literacy and Intercultural Understanding (Primary R-7)

EDUC8731 Motivation, Cognition and Metacognition in Learning

EDUC9732 Teaching to Develop Motivation, Cognition and Metacognition

Topic lecturer

EDUC9706 Visualising Language Learning

EDUC9733 The Psychology of Learning and Instruction

EDUC9705 Developing Literacies Through Intercultural Language Learning

EDUC9708 New technologies and e-pedagogy in foreign language education

EDUC9732 Teaching to Develop Motivation, Cognition and Metacognition

Supervisory interests

Children's home language maintenance

Cognitive psychology and educational practice

Computer assisted language learning (CALL)

Evaluating quality in teachers' and learners' knowledge

Foreign language education

Language learning strategies

TESOL

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Chinese EFL teachers beliefs, perceptions, attitudes towards flipped classroom model; implications for practice (1), Mental Health, Psychological Strengths and School Adaptation of High School Students in China (1)

Associate supervisor: Student and teacher beliefs about learning. (1), Bullying victimization, post traumatic stress disorder and post traumatic growth among adolescents in Southwest China (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Intercultural understanding (1), Teachers’ professional learning communities of practice impact on EFL teachers’ integrated English lesson instructions in rural Indonesia — Principal (1), Explicit strategy instruction in foreign language vocabulary learning (1)

Associate supervisor: Evaluating Efficacy and Usability of Mobile Devices for Learning New Vocabulary Items (1), Students' perceptions of the multilingual policy in education in Timor Leste (1), A framework to guide investigations into parents’ home and school involvement in children’s German community language learning: Testing a theoretical model (1), Students’ and teachers’ perceptions on grammar instruction for developing English language proficiency in the Saudi Arabian EFL context:A mixed methods study. (1), Sustainable school improvement: Enhancing school middle leaders’ epistemic cognition for teaching about self-regulated learning (1)

Professional engagement

Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee (SBREC)
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
French Bilingual Program Advisory Group, Department of Education and Child Development
Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association
Modern Language Teachers' Association of South Australia (MLTASA) executive committee
Australian Curriculum Advisory Committee, Department of Education and Child Development
French Bilingual Program Steering Committee, Department of Education and Child Development
Multilingual and Global Engagement Association for Languages Education Research (Magenta Fler), coordinator
Flinders Research Centre ' Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence' (SWAPv)
Emerging Technologies User Group (ETUG)
European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC)
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
LOGOS Modern Greek Scholarship Selection Committee

Reviewer for:

Educational Research Review (Elsevier)
Language and Instruction Journal (Elsevier)
Psychological Reports (Ammons Scientific, Ltd)
Perceptual and Motor Skills (Ammons Scientific, Ltd)
Imagination, Cognition and Personality (Sage Publishing)
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Taylor & Francis Group)
Issues in Educational Research
Journal of Cognitive Science
Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling