People have some very entrenched and often unexamined beliefs about language, and these beliefs often underpin social injustices in language learning, teaching, and use. In this module we interrogate some of these myths from the perspective of Applied Linguistics, using my co-authored introduction to the field as a basis. We’ll also look at data from research I’ve been involved in on language teachers’ beliefs, both ontological and ideological, and dip into some theory I have developed about the different ways English is conceptualised.
Chris Hall
You can find my official university webpage here.
Nikki
Before being appointed as Head of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience in the Business School, I was Head of Programme for English Language and Linguistics at YSJ for seven years. I have been teaching for 14 years, specialising in phonetics and phonology, and I still teach on the ELL programme. I'm specifically interested in regional variation and children's acquisition of their accent. I have just started a PhD in phonological acquisition at the University of York.
My background in learning and teaching is that I was awarded an University (college at the time) fellowship in 2005, for my work embedding technical skills into teaching. I then became Senior Teaching Fellow for the Business School in 2010 which was connected to my work exploring the potential of new technologies to e-marking and feedback, with Mark Dransfield. I'm also a mentor and assessor for the University's dialogic route to HEA fellowship.
