The Moray House School of Education
Department of Curriculum Research & Development (CRD): TESOL

Sheila Arnott
TESOL Administrator, MEd TESOL Online and pre-2003 Distance Learning

Tel: 0131 651 6329  [ sheila.arnott@education.ed.ac.uk ]
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Sherice Clarke
Tutor
MEd TESOL (Edinburgh), PhD candidate in TESOL (Edinburgh)

Sherice has taught ESOL in the USA, Thailand and Scotland. She has taught primary, secondary and adult learners as well as running in-service training for EFL teachers. Her research interests are identity in second language learning, the interaction between learners, learning contexts and materials and teaching adult learners.

Dr Joan Cutting  
Senior Lecturer in TESOL
BA (Hons) French with Italian (Birmingham), PhD in Applied Linguistics (Edinburgh), Lic.Diploma TEFL (Trinity)

Joan Cutting has taught English as a Foreign Language, English for Business, and English for Medicine, in addition to her teacher-training on MA TESOLs in Havana, Cuba, and Sunderland and Edinburgh, UK. She has undertaken consultancy in Russia, all round mainland China and Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia. Her research interests are pragmatics, the codes of academic discourse communities, spoken grammar, teacher training and TEFL. She is currently engaged in a European Community funded research project, with France, Germany, Italy and Spain, on the language of airport ground staff. She is editor of The Grammar of Spoken English and EAP Teaching (University of Sunderland Press, 2000), and author of Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities (Elsevier Science, 2000) and Pragmatics and Discourse (Routledge, 2002).

Tel: 0131 651 6324  [ Joan.Cutting@ed.ac.uk ] [ Publications ]
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Dr Rosemary Douglas
Lecturer
BA (Hon), MSc in Applied Linguistics, DPhil, PGCE

Rosie worked in Finland and Scotland as a foreign language teacher at secondary and tertiary levels before becoming involved in teacher education and related consultancy work, particularly in Mexico, Pakistan, Malaysia and Canada. She has recently managed a school reform project in Tajikistan and has fluent Russian. Her main interest is teacher education for TESOL.

Tel: 0131 651 6421  [ Rosemary.Douglas@ed.ac.uk ]
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Yvonne Foley
Lecturer

Yvonne has worked as an EFL/EAP teacher at primary, secondary and tertiary levels in Taiwan and Scotland. She has also been involved in teacher training and was Director of Studies in a large international school in Taiwan. She has undertaken consultancy work in China. Her research interests include language testing, curriculum development and bilingualism. She has an MEd TESOL from the University of Edinburgh.

Tel: 0131 651 6127 [ yvonne.foley@education.ed.ac.uk ]
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Gillies Haughton
Lecturer
MA, MSc in Applied Linguistics, PGCE

Gillies has worked in Italy, Bulgaria, Iran and Libya as well as Scotland. He has also undertaken consultancy work - mainly on language test design and teacher education - in Bulgaria, Poland, Vietnam, India, Indonesia Mexico and Uganda. His principal professional interests are Discourse, CALL, Language Test Design and Evaluation.

Tel: 0131 651 6334  [ Gillies.Haughton@ed.ac.uk ]
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Hamish McIlwraith
Lecturer
MA, MSc in Applied Linguistics, LTCL TESOL Dip

Hamish lived and worked as a teacher in Sudan and Scotland in the mid 1980s and before taking a post as a teacher trainer in Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was responsible for training in-service tertiary level teachers from Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Hebei provinces in China in the early 1990s, and later moved to take a position at the University of Brunei Darussalam. More recently, he was based in Bulgaria and advised the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence on its English language training and testing policies prior to NATO entry.

His consultancy work – mostly for DfID, the FCO, MoD and British Council – has included engagements in Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia, North Korea, China, and Bangladesh. His main interests include Language Test Design and Evaluation, ELT Management and the use of new technologies in ELT.

Tel: 0131 651 6330  [Hamish.McIlwraith@education.ed.ac.uk ]

Dr Bróna Murphy
Associate Lecturer in Language Education
BA (Hons) in English and French, MA (Hons) in English Language Teaching, PhD in Applied Linguistics, (Limerick, Ireland)

Bróna Murphy has taught English as a Foreign Language and been involved in teacher training, both in Ireland and abroad, for over ten years. In 2007, she was chosen to represent Ireland on a European Centre for Modern Languages' project entitled 'TrainEd - Training Teacher Educators' along with delegates from over 20 European countries. Her research interests include English language teaching, teacher-training, spoken discourse, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (in particular age-and gender-related research), and Irish English. She is member of various professional bodies including the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) among others.

Tel: 0131 651 6324 [ brona.murphy@education.ed.ac.uk ]
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Ruby Rennie
Lecturer / Programme Co-ordinator MEd TESOL
MA, MSc in Applied Linguistics, RSA Dip, Dip Ed, PGCE

Ruby has worked at primary, secondary and tertiary level teaching both English language and literature and also teacher training and development. She has experience of working in Scotland, Peru, South Korea and Malaysia. Her research interests include CALL, literature and stylistics.

Tel: 0131 651 6331  [ Ruby.Rennie@ed.ac.uk ]
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Moira Ross
TESOL Administrator (MEd Contact Mode /Mixed Mode /Pre-MEd)

Tel: 0131 651 6206 [ moirar@education.ed.ac.uk ]

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