Supervisors
Dr Christian Jones (1st) and Miss Caterina Guardamagna (2nd)
Research interest
My main areas of interest revolves around the ideas of Exploratory Practice, Contrastive Phonology and, primarily, Testing and Assessment in EFL/ESL
Conference papers:
v BALEAP PIM - Assessing the assessors (Birmingham)
1. The curious case of formative assessment - various ways of optimizing the use of feedback [presentation]
2. Assessing Listening skill without wading through the notes. How/can it be done? [workshop] February 2019
v Pedagogical Research conference - Exploratory Practice as a tool to support students' motivation (Liverpool) [presentation] January 2019
v Inform (Transition into University) – using formative assessment durign high-steaks ESL courses (Birmingham) [presentation] June 2018
v English UK conference, Using Exploratory Practice in Lower Level ESL classes (London) [presentation] November 2016 v Learn English in Wales – My kingdom for… motivation to read - Low-level EFL learners and the reading skills (Cardiff) [workshop] October 2016
v IATEFL – Adapting materials to students' needs (English for Policing) (Athens) [presentation] October 2016
v English UK PIM – Exploratory Practice in action (London) [presentation] June 2016
Publications
‘The long road to UK higher education: Using Exploratory Practice as a tool to improve academic language and skills for lower level language learners’; Aug 2017
publication description Research Notes - Cambridge English Language Assessment - Vol 68 pp. 55-61
‘Teaching reflections on how to be creative in HE My journey through the enchanted waters of creativity’ published in Creative Academic Magazine Vol 7 pp. 89-94
(http://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html) February 2017
Undergraduate dissertation published in Undergraduate Research Journal ‘Diffusion’ Phonological Error Mapping - an English - polish contrastive study. Vol 4(1) pp. 1-14 June 2011
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