TESOL
Research & Consultancy
The TESOL lecturers have a very wide range of research interests, including
- CALL and web-based learning
- Classroom interaction and second language
acquisition
- Classroom materials design and evaluation
- Language curriculum development
and evaluation
- Language description for language teaching
- The teaching and learning
of speaking, listening, reading and writing
- Task-based learning
- Language teacher education
- Language testing
- Literature and language teaching
- Bilingual education
- Language policy
- Teaching English for specific purposes (business, law,
medicine and technology)
- Teaching Chinese students in British universities
- Teaching English in
China
- English language classroom ethnography
- Spoken grammar and TESOL
- Discourse analysis, language use and language
teaching
- Pragmatics and TESOL
- Genre analysis and English for Specific Purposes
- Academic discourse
community code
See the TESOL Staff page for further details
(these include links to publications).
 Details
about Research Projects here
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International
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In Britain
In 1997, Dr Joan Cutting was invited lecture to staff and MSc students in
the Department of Linguistics in the University of Nottingham. Her lecture
was entitled "The Academic Discourse Community In-group Code.
In Russia
In 1998, Dr Joan Cutting went to Cherepovets, Russia, as a member of a
TEMPUS-funded project with the University of Sunderland, about foreign
language teaching methodology. The main objective of the project was
to exchange experiences and ideas about methodology in teaching languages;
she also gave teacher-training sessions to English teachers and offered
English language proficiency classes to students of English.
In China
Since 2000, Dr Joan Cutting has been five times to the China, visiting
universities and schools in Beijing, Tianjin, Changchun, Chongqin, Nanjing,
Nanning, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Behai and Hong Kong.
Her objective has been to strengthen international relations and discuss
inter-university agreements. She has also organised language teacher-training
methodology sessions for English teachers. In addition, she has run Spoken
English Competitions (the biggest was broadcast on Guangdong TV) and
even taught Scottish Country Dancing!
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Visiting scholars
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The TESOL team welcomes international
academics who wish to come to Moray House, University of Edinburgh, for
a period of time, to undertake a research project. If you are interested
in coming, be it for three months or a year, email joan.cutting@ed.ac.uk with a curriculum vitae, and explain:
- the specific research project that you intend to pursue
- how your project relates to the research interests of the TESOL team
- what joint research you would like to undertake with us
- what publications you see coming out of your visit
- what seminars you could give to our language teaching staff and students
We have many requests of this sort every year, and so have to be selective
as to which of the distinguished scholars we have working with us. Because
of the competition, we cannot accept scholars whose sole objective is to
observe our classes, unfortunately.
Visiting scholars normally pay a bench fee, for which they are given an
office, a computer, and library and internet access.
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