Education (English Language Teaching) PgDip/MA : Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences teaches this course. Students benefit from a lively study environment, thanks to the wide range of postgraduate courses on offer.

Programmes cover everything from English literature and music to human rights and politics.

The Faculty provides a vibrant and forward-thinking environment for study with:

• courses designed in collaboration with industry professionals – keeping you up to date with the latest developments;
• established connections with the London arts and media scene – with a range of guest speakers, professors and lecturers visiting the University; and
• committed and enthusiastic staff – many of whom are expert practitioners as well as leading academics and researchers.

The Faculty's combination of academics and practitioners makes it a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.

Where is the Faculty based? Most students are based at the University's Penrhyn Road campus, with our music and education courses taught at the Kingston Hill campus.

Anne Betzel

Anne Betzel's research interests include critical discourse analysis and intercultural communication, with particular reference to issues around the role of language in constructing different types of social practices; the interface between English and global development processes; and education policy with a focus on argumentation theory.

Dr Paul Booth

Language teaching, learning differences and vocabulary are three themes which run through Paul's work with second language learners and his research. Language teaching pedagogy and second language acquisition are two areas which he specialise in. Paul also teaches English to specialised groups of learners from science, engineering and computing. His research focuses on the relationship between learning and the lexical production of second language learners - from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Valerie Coultas

Valerie Coultas taught in London schools for over two decades as an English and Media teacher, Head of English and senior teacher before becoming an English tutor at the School of Education in 2004. She is the Chair of the Multi-Cultural and Diversity Committee of the National Association for the Teaching of English and her research interests include small group collaborative learning particularly in challenging settings and issues of EAL, gender, inclusion and social justice.

Andy Hudson

Andy Hudson is Head of the School of Education. He has been working in teacher training in the university sector for 15 years, following 20 years teaching in London inner-city schools.

Dr Marina Lambrou

Dr Marina Lambrou's research interests include stylistics, both literary and non-literary, with a particular focus on narratives and their structure; language and media, the linguistic strategies underlying media language and mediation of texts; sociolinguistics, including language variation and identity; and ethnography.

Dr Victoria Perselli

Victoria Perselli is the Field Leader for the Education (English Language Teaching) MA. Her research and teaching interests include critical pedagogy, action research and qualitative methodologies for describing and understanding professional practice. Victoria teaches and supervises students from a range of subject areas on Masters and Doctoral programmes in education. She has published in the areas of inclusive education, visual and performance arts, qualitative research methodologies, the self-study in teacher education, European 'high theory' and assessment/supervision in the doctorate. In 2005-07 Victoria was a Programme Chair of the American Educational Research Association. In 2007 she was a Visiting Professor and keynote speaker at MingDao University, Taiwan. The focus of her PhD (2001) was the inclusion of children with learning disabilities in infant mainstream schools. 

Kathryn Richardson

Kathryn Richardson is the Co-ordinator of English Language Development, which provides credit-bearing English Language modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, English language development courses for non-native speaker students, pre-sessional English language courses for international and EU students, and continuing professional development courses for academics from other countries.

Dr Zed Sevcikova

Zed Sevcikova recently completed a PhD at University College London in Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences where her research investigated the structural properties in British Sign Language. She is mainly interested in the way deaf and hearing people blend linguistic elements, such as words and signs and gestural elements in communication. Zed is interested in the relationship between age of acquisition, length of exposure and cognitive abilities in first and second language learners. She taught English as a Foreign Language and English for Speakers of Other Languages intermittently before taking up a full-time doctorate.

Dr Sarah Whitehead

Sarah Whitehead has published on Edith Wharton, Modernist writing and the material history of the short story.  Her research interests include magazine history and Wharton's short story oeuvre. She has worked over twenty years teaching English Literature at secondary schools and since completing her PhD has been teaching both in the English Department and at the School of Education at Kingston University.