Susan Hill

APrf Susan Hill

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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Susan Hill CV 2022
Dr Susan Hill is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education. She is an author and researcher in the field of early language and literacy. She is the author of a number of books for researchers, teachers and children.

CV 2022

Dr Hill's current research involves the connection between oral language, phonological awareness, vocabulary and learning to read and write. She conducts research into improving children's early reading and writing in the first years of school. The book Developing Early Literacy: Assessment and Teaching with additional resources, is in its third edition in 2021.

She worked with A/Prof Susan Nichols on the development of young children's vocabulary in The New Word Hunters Project.

Susan Hill also worked on an early literacy project with children aged 6-8 years who have slipped through the cracks when learning to read. This project involved volunteers, peer tutors and mentors Reading Restart

She was the chief investigator on the longitudinal research project titled Babies and books: A longitudinal study into family reading practices with children birth to three years (2014), with J. Forster, C. Ward and the Little Big Book Club. Babies and books: A longitudinal study into family reading practices with children birth to three years.

Dr Hill had conducted research into literacy at home in Indigeneous communities in the project What do young Indigenous children want to read? Hill, Glover and Colbung (2009-2010), University of South Australia, Division of Education, Arts and Social Science, Divisional Research Performance Fund.

Dr Hill was chief investigator on the Mapping multiliteracies: children of the new millennium project ARC Linkage (2002-2006), exploring how young children engage with technology and the way teachers work in the digital environment.

Dr Hill's research is in the area of early literacy development and she was director of two large longitudinal national research projects 100 children go to school and the continuation of the longitudinal research in the project 100 children turn 10.

Year Citation
2022 Byrnes Cloet, H., & Hill, S. (2022). Writing play-books with linguistically diverse young learners. Reading Teacher, 75(4), 413-427.
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2020 Nichols, S., & Hill, S. (2020). New word hunters: a family engagement strategy to extend year 1 children's vocabulary. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 43(2), 129-139.
2020 Ozturk, G., & Hill, S. (2020). Mother-child interactions during shared reading with digital and print books. Early child development and care, 190(9), 1425-1440.
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2017 Hill, S. (2017). Early reading and practice-inspired research. Early child development and care, 187(3-4), 322-330.
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2016 Ozturk, G., Hill, S., & Yates, G. C. R. (2016). Girls, boys and early reading: parents' gendered views about literacy and children's attitudes towards reading. Early child development and care, 186(5), 703-715.
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2015 Ozturk, G., Hill, S., & Yates, G. (2015). Family context and five-year-old children's attitudes toward literacy when they are learning to read. Reading psychology, 37(3), 487-509.
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2013 Hill, S., & Diamond, A. K. (2013). Family literacy in response to local contexts. Australian journal of language and literacy, 36(1), 48-55.
2011 Hill, S. (2011). Towards ecologically valid assessment in early literacy. Early child development and care, 181(2), 165-180.
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2011 Glover, A., Hill, S., & Colbung, M. (2011). My favourite book!: young Aboriginal children's book choices. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 36(1), 77-84.
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2010 Hill, S. E. (2010). Oral language play and learning. Practically primary : giving voice to literacy, 15(2), 4-12.
2010 Hill, S. (2010). The millennium generation : teacher-researchers exploring new forms of literacy. Journal of early childhood literacy, 10(3), 314-340.
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2010 Hill, S., & Launder, N. (2010). Oral language and beginning to read. Australian journal of language and literacy, 33(3), 240-254.
2006 Hill, S. E. (2006). Fast start to phonics. Practically primary.
2004 Hill, S. E. (2004). Privileged literacy in preschool. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2001 Hill, S. (2001). Questioning text levels. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2000 Comber, B. M., & Hill, S. (2000). Socio-economic disadvanatge, literacy and social justice: learning from longitudinal case study research. Australian educational researcher.
1999 Hill, S. (1999). 100 children go to school: connections between literacy development in the prior-to-school period and the first year of schooling. Queensland journal of educational research.
1997 Veale, A., & Hill, S. (1997). Love, Care and Politics in low income early childhood settings: the process of constructing a professional identity. Australian Research in Early Childhood Education.

Year Citation
2021 Hill, S., & Farndale, A. (2021). English language learners. In Source details - Title: Developing Early Literacy: Assessment and Teaching (3 ed. ed., pp. 400-419). Australia: Eleanor Curtain Publishing.
2019 Hill, S. E. (2019). Early literacy: a multimodal process. In O. Saracho (Ed.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children (4 ed., pp. 113-122). US: Taylor & Francis.
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2013 Hill, S. E., & Nichols, S. (2013). Early literacy: towards a semiotic approach. In O. N. Saracho, & B. Spodek (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of research on the education of young children (3 ed., pp. 583-619). US: Routledge.
2011 Hill, S. (2011). Early literacy: connections and disconnections between oral language and literacy. In D. M. Laverick, & M. R. Jalongo (Eds.), Source details - Title: Transitions to Early Care and Education (pp. 45-56). Netherlands: Springer.
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2009 Hill, S., & Nichols, S. M. (2009). Multiple pathways between home and school literacies. In A. Anning, J. Cullen, & M. Fleer (Eds.), Source details - Title: Early childhood education : society and culture (2nd ed. ed., pp. 169-184). England: Sage.
2006 Hill, S. (2006). Multiliteracies. In N. New, & R. Rebecca (Eds.), Source details - Title: Early childhood education: an international encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.
2006 Hill, S., & Nichols, S. M. (2006). Emergent literacy : symbols at work. In Source details - Title: Handbook of research on the education of young children (2 ed., pp. 153-165). United States: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
2004 Hill, S., & Nichols, S. M. (2004). Multiple pathways between home and school literacies. In A. Angela, C. Joy, & F. Marilyn (Eds.), Source details - Title: Early childhood education : society and culture (pp. 159-172). England: Sage.
2002 Hill, S., & Broadhurst, D. G. (2002). Technoliteracy and the early years. In L. Makin, & C. Diaz (Eds.), Source details - Title: Literacies in early childhood : changing views, challenging practice (pp. 269-288). Australia: Maclennan + Petty.
2001 Hill, S. (2001). Theoretical tools for talk. In P. G. Smith (Ed.), Source details - Title: Talking Classrooms: Shaping Children's Learning through Oral Language Instruction (pp. 14-26). USA: International Reading Association.
1999 Hill, S. (1999). Perspectives on cooperative learning. In L. Berk (Ed.), Source details - Title: Landscapes of Development: An Anthology of Readings (pp. 265-280). U.S.A.: Wadsworth.

Year Citation
2016 Ozturk, G., Hill, S., & Yates, G. (2016). The role of parental practices and expectations on five-year old children's phonological awareness and letter-word knowledge. In Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 2016 (pp. 1-16). Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education.
2011 Hill, S., & Diamond, A. K. (2011). Reading, parents and family literacy. In J. Wright (Ed.), Australian Assoc for Research in Education (AARE) 2011 conference (pp. 1-13). Australia: AARE - Australian Association for Research in Educ....
2009 Hill, S., & Launder, N. (2009). Connections between oral language and beginning reading. In M. Kelly, & C. Morgan (Eds.), Bridging divides: national conference for teachers of English and Literacy 2009 (pp. 1-16). Australia: AATE.
2004 Hill, S. (2004). Hot diggity! Findings from the children of the new millennium project. In Proceedings of the Early Childhood Organisation Conference EDC 2004.
2004 Hill, S. (2004). Children of the new millennium: digital literacies. In Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference 2004. Adelaide.
2001 Hill, S. (2001). Scaffolding early literacy using text levelling. In P. Chen, & Y. Chen (Eds.), Selected Papers from the Tenth International Symposium on English Teaching English Teachers' Association / ROC Taipei November 16-18, 2001. Taipei: English Teachers Association.
2001 Hill, S. E. (2001). Emergent literacy and family ties to popular culture and technology. In International Reading Association (IRA) 46th Annual Convention.
2001 Hill, S. E. (2001). Changing Literacy: Literacy development over time. In Early Childhood Conference.
2001 Hill, S. E. (2001). Cashing in on Preschool Pedagogy. In American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle 2001.
1999 Hill, S. E. (1999). Literacy Development in the First Year of Schooling. In ACER 1999 Literacy Research Conference: Improving Literacy Learning. Adelaide: Australian Council for Educational Research.
1999 Hill, S. E., & Rivalland, J. (1999). So what can we learn from 100 children going to school?. In Children at the Top - AECA Conference. Darwin, Northern Territory: AECA Conference - Darwin.

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