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Mr Sarn Rich

Academic Sessional

Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education Faculty Office

Senior Lecturer - Centre for Language and Linguistics

Senior Lecturer - Centre for Language and Linguistics

Main current teaching responsibilities: Language Acquisition (MA Applied Linguistics); Roots & Routes of English, and Language Acquisition & Literacy (BA English Language and Linguistics); Certificate in English Language Teaching for Adults (CELTA); Supervision of Dissertations and Individual Studies / Previous positions include academic management, course direction, teacher training and teaching at CCCU and at private language schools (Churchill House, Pilgrims, Bell, Hilderstone College and others) in the UK, International House in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Georgia, and other language teaching institutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea

Research interests:
Cognitive Linguistics; Indo-European Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Children's Language; ELT Classroom Practice and Teacher Development; Philosophy of Language; Interdisciplinary Approaches

Conference papers:
IATEFL Glasgow 2017, Liverpool 2019, Harrogate 2023
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, 2018

Articles:
English Teaching professional on exploiting spelling mistakes and 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 fairy tales;
http://www.developingteachers.com on voice-setting phonology, using songs in ELT and strategic competence;
Humanising Language Teaching on what EFL teachers can learn from young children

MA External Examiner: University of Brighton and University of Nottingham