Averil Coxhead is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She’s an applied linguist and is primarily interested in vocabulary in language teaching and learning, English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes.
Averils’ research interests include specialised and academic vocabulary in the trades, at university and secondary school. One element of Averil’s research involves developing and evaluating word lists. She has taught courses on second language learning in undergraduate TESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL programmes in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS) and supervised postgraduate research in a range of areas. She has taught in New Zealand, England, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Singapore and Thailand.
