Profile summary
Current teaching responsibilities:
- Second Language Learning (Pg Dip/MA TESOL)
- Exploring Language (BA English Language and Communication)
- Contemporary English Usage (BA Creative and Professional Writing)
- English Language: Present, Past and Future (BA English Language and Communication; BA English)
- Certificate in English Language Teaching for Adults (CELTA)
- English as a Foreign Language (General English Programme)
- Supervision of Dissertations (MA TESOL) and Individual Studies (BEd TESL)
Other roles in the Centre for Language Studies and Applied Linguistics
- Representative, Faculty Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee
- Joint representative (with John Kullman), Faculty International Committee
Previous positions involved academic management, course direction, teacher training and English language teaching with
- private language schools (Churchill House, Pilgrims, Bell, Hilderstone College and others) in the UK
- International House in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Georgia
- other language teaching institutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea
Academic interests
- Cognitive linguistics
- Children's language
- ELT classroom practice
- Philosophy of language
- Interdisciplinary approaches
Teaching and subject expertise
- Teacher Training and Development
- English Language Teaching
- Second Language Learning
- English Grammar and Phonology
- Cognitive Linguistics, especially in ELT
External activities
External Examiner
- University of Bedfordshire
Papers
- International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Lancaster 2014
- International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, London 2012
- Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture, Rome 2011
- 'Childhood in its Time', Canterbury Christ Church 2009
- 'Cutting Edges', Canterbury Christ Church 2007, 2008, 2009
Publications and research outputs
Articles
http://www.developingteachers.com on
- voice-setting phonology,
- using songs in ELT ,
- strategic competence
English Teaching professional on
- exploiting spelling mistakes,
- interactive whiteboards
Journal of the Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture (Volume 2, Number 1 Winter 2010 ISSN: 1949-2774) on
- exploring cultures and experiences through fairytales
Humanising Language Teaching on
- what EFL teachers can learn from young children