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Amanda Barton
Amanda Barton is the programme director for the PGCE course
in Secondary Modern Foreign Languages and her research interests
lie in the area of gender and achievement especially boys'
underachievement in secondary education, in teaching languages
in primary school, and in initial teacher education.
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Mike
Beaumont
Mike Beaumont's main concern is teacher education but he also
has interests in global issues in ELT, the psychology of language
learning, particularly second language acquisition, discourse
analysis and the teaching of reading. |
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Richard
Fay
Richard Fay, MEd ELT Programme Director, specialises in intercultural
aspects of language teacher education. He is involved in MEd
(MD531Intercultural Communication, MD351 Classroom Research,
and MD354 Course Design) and BA teaching (eg Ed1310 Aspects
of Communication; and ED1902 Communication & Culture).
He also co-ordinates the ERASMUS Exchange element of the BA
LLC programme. His research activities concern intercultural
aspects of international distance learning projects pursued
in relation to projects with the Hellenic Open University
(Greece) and the British Council (Bulgaria). |
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John Keen
John Keen is the course director for PGCE English.
His research interests include language
study in the English curriculum and writing development.
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Gary
Motteram
Gary Motteram works on the courses concerned with educational
technology and TESOL/ELT. He is programme Director of the
MEd in Educational Technology and ELT. His main areas of research
interest are in technology in language learning and technology
in teacher education. |
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Teresa
O'Brien
Teresa O'Brien's main teaching responsibilities are the teaching
of L2 writing, classroom research and course design. Her most
recent overseas experience has been in Morocco, France and
Poland. Her research interests are
written text analysis and practice-based research. She is
Co-ordinator for PhD students. |
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Judith
Piotrowski
Judith Piotrowski is the director of Primary Education and
Programme Director for the Primary PGCE. Her reserach interests
lie in the area of attribution theory, locus of control,
belief and literacy.
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Patricia
Sanderson
Patricia Sanderson's current teching is in Educational Research
Methodologies; the Psychology of Child Development; Dance
and Physical Education. Her research
interests and supervision areas are Aesthetic education
and development, creative arts (art, music, dance, drama)
curricula and issues, arts therapies with particular reference
to education, attitudes: of teachers, pupils, artists to educational
issues and curricula, creative arts partnerships and Special
needs in arts education. |
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Ludovica
Serratrice
Ludovica Serratrice teaches on the language strand of the
BA in Language, Literacy and Communication. Her current
research interests include first language acquisition
of syntax and pragmatics with specific reference to English
and Italian, and childhood bilingualism. |
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Diane
Slaouti
Diane Slaouti's teaching and research
interests are in educational technology for ELT and in
self-access & autonomous learning and study skills. She
is currently working with teachers in schools investigating
the development of teachers' skills and understanding of the
application of technology in local contexts. She is Programme
Director of the MEd ELT. |
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Sonia
Slatery
Sonia Slattery teaches on the PGCE course for Modern Foreign
Languages. She is an experienced secondary school teacher
and has worked in a diverse range of school settings, including
selective, single-sex and urban multiracial schools. Her
doctoral thesis centred upon secondary level provision for
the teaching of
Community languages and her research
interests continue to focus upon educational provision
for minority groups within culturally and linguistically
diverse communities. |
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Linda
Varley
Linda Varley is course tutor for the PGCE Flexible English
course and teaches on the full time PGCE English course.
She also lectures on 'England:The Two Nations in Literature'
at Level 1 and Level 2 on the part time B.A. (Hons) in Education.
She is an experienced teacher of English and organises training
at AS and A2 level in English Language and English Language
& Literature for practising teachers. She is currently
involved in a Teacher Training Strategy to update Key Stage
2 & Key Stage 3 teachers' specialist knowledge in English.
Her research interests are writing assessment post 16 and
the transition from GCSE to post 16. |
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Richard
West
Richard West's current main interests are in assessment, ESP
and distance education. He was chief examiner for 10 years
of the Cambridge CAE. He has considerable recent experience
in Eastern Europe where the group runs a number of projects.
He is Programme Director of the B.A. in ELT programme. |
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RTG
Administrative Staff |
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Barbara
Hopkinson
Barbara Hopkinson co-ordinates distance education and supports
the onsite MEd programmes. Her work includes posting out materials
to distance participants, checking their fee payments and
registrations, supplying articles, processing assignment submissions
and redirecting academic queries to programme tutors. |
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Sue
Millar
Sue Millar is our Research and Teaching Group Secretary and
takes general administrative care of the group, as well as
providing a contact point for students of all LLSE programmes
apart from distance. |
