Helen de Silva Joyce is an Australian applied linguist and TESOL researcher who spent the bulk of her career translating Sydney School genre theory into practical curriculum for adult migrant English. Much of that work happened through the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR) at Macquarie University and the AMEP Research Centre, with a parallel decade as Director of Community and Migrant Education at the NSW Department of Education and Training. She now holds an adjunct post at the University of New England.
Her signature contribution is the long collaboration with Anne Burns on spoken discourse and workplace language, which pulled the SFL tradition out of schools-literacy contexts and reshaped it for adult ESL classrooms. In earlier publications she is cited as Helen Joyce; the fuller Helen de Silva Joyce is the form she uses now.