Dr. Greg Restall is a Senior Lecturer within UniSA Education Futures and currently serves as the Program Director for the Master of Education program. His academic and supervisory focus lies in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), with experience spanning both local and international educational contexts. His research integrates his professional and academic expertise in digital technologies and language education.
Greg’s academic journey began with undergraduate majors in French and Chinese language and literature. He later completed postgraduate qualifications in secondary education, specializing in modern languages and TESOL methodologies. His Master’s degree explored the intersection of language, culture, and education, while his doctoral research investigated online collaborative learning environments.
He teaches postgraduate courses in blended and collaborative learning settings, and his research applies sociolinguistic, sociocultural, and collaborative learning theories to diverse educational contexts. These include classroom pedagogies, offshore mobility programs for pre-service teachers, professional learning communities, intercultural collaborations, and virtual learning environments.
Greg’s scholarly contributions include a co-authored book chapter on Asia Literacy in Australian schools, journal articles on team-based learning in higher education, and collaborative publications with doctoral candidates. Notably, he co-authored a recent article on the use of immersive virtual reality to enhance communicative competence among South Korean learners of English.
From 2011 to 2017, Greg served as Program Director for the Master of Education programs and resumed this role in 2024. He has supervised numerous doctoral candidates in TESOL to completion and currently mentors six PhD students.
Greg has secured New Colombo Plan funding to lead study tours to South Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and has also coordinated self-funded international study tours and internships. His research into intercultural learning and its impact on the professional identity of Australian pre-service teachers has been presented at the ACTA 2018 conference in Adelaide and at Universitas Indonesia in Depok, West Java.
In 2021, Greg received DFAT funding through the Australia-Korea Foundation to lead a project developing immersive virtual reality modules with embedded language learning resources. These modules aimed to enhance spoken English proficiency among South Korean secondary students. The project concluded in July 2022, with findings presented at ACTA 2022 in Brisbane, the SEAMEO-RETRAC TESOL conference in Ho Chi Minh City, and the KATE and KAMALL conferences in South Korea.
Greg is the Academic Lead for the TESOL Research Cluster in the Higher Education Research Network (HERN). He also currently serves as President of SA TESOL and is actively involved with Educators SA and the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA).