Staff Profile

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