Membership
LEN members include staff from the University of Exeter and beyond, as well as Alumni, Masters and doctoral researchers. There is a group of core members, see below. However, staff and postgraduate students from the School of Education, from other departments across the University and external affiliates are welcome to join LEN. Please contact Dr Philip Durrant.
Core Members |
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Philip Durrant (co-lead) Gabriela Meier (co-lead) Dr Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh |
Postgraduate Students
| Name | Programme |
Topic |
Lead Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reem Abu-Shawish | EdD TESOL Dubai (2016) | Involvement of school teachers in educational decision-making in the State of Qatar | Phil Durrant |
| Ruhina Ahmed | EdD TESOL Dubai | Metacognitive reading strategy awareness of undergraduate Omani EFL students studying engineering and accountancy | Phil Durrant |
| Khadija Alamoudi | PhD | Salah Troudi | |
| Eman Aldosary | EdD TESOL Dubai | Using interactive whiteboards to teach vocabulary to primary children | Phil Durrant |
| Issa Al Hinai | PhD | The perceptions and practices of post-foundation students’ technical writing at the colleges of technology in Oman | Phil Durrant |
| Barraq Ali | EdD TESOL Dubai | iPad pedagogical affordances at the Foundations Program of the Higher Colleges of Technology in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates | Rupert Wegerif |
| Iman Al Khalidi | EdD TESOL Dubai | EFL in higher education: Designing an efficient and flexible model for a language course design at university level | Phil Durrant |
| Omar Alsaif | EdD TESOL | Li Li | |
| Hana Alrasheed | PhD | IELTS as a predictor of the reading performance of post-graduate students at a UK university | Phil Durrant |
| Younis Al Shabibi | PhD | Teachers’ roles in a collaborative online environment | Phil Durrant |
| David Bish | EdD TESOL | Increasing the potential of ICT in language learning: A model of classroom integration of CALL through a micro-blended approach | Phil Durrant |
| Dimitrious Boglou | EdD TESOL | Technology as a tool in creating and promoting new learning environments in TESOL | Phil Durrant |
| Theodore Burkett | EdD TESOL Dubai | The use of frequency-based word lists in university foundation and intensive English programs | Phil Durrant |
| Friederike Grosse | PhD | ||
| Irfana Hafeez | EdD TESOL Dubai | Salah Troudi | |
| Karmand Hamad | EdD TESOL | Understanding the situation of learner autonomy in a higher education context in the Kurdistan Region | Phil Durrant |
| Duane Henning | EdD TESOL | Hyperpolyglots and self-regulation in second language learning | Phil Durrant |
| Farwa Hussain Shah | EdD TESOL | teachers beliefs and practices in relation to the Curriculum change. It is a study about the change in the English language curriculum at the higher education sector in Pakistan | Susan Riley |
| Muhammad Idrees | EdD TESOL | Effectiveness of CALL compared with a traditional method of English language teaching in a Saudi Arabian university context | Phil Durrant |
| Sanaa Khabbar | PhD | Gaby Meier | |
| Krishnan Kumar | PhD | The effects of dictionary type on the composition writing of intermediate Japanese university second language learning of English | Phil Durrant |
| Steve Kurowski | EdD TESOL Dubai | Measuring grammatical compliexity | Phil Durrant |
| Clive Lee | EdD TESOL | Vivienne Baumfield | |
| Benjamin Moorhouse | EdD TESOL | Experiences, perceptions and practices of student-teachers towards homework in the EFL classroom in Hong Kong. | Phil Durrant |
| Gareth Morris | EdD | L2 motivation | Li Li |
| Shazia Nawaz | EdD | ESL students's identity as a learner and influence of cultural and linguistic background on their learning behaviors in and outside classrooms | Fran Martin |
| Allan Nicholas | PhD | A dynamic assessment of pragmatic competence in Japanese learners of EFL: the act of requesting. | Phil Durrant |
| Dewi Nuraini | PhD | Salah Troudi | |
| Rana Obaid | EdD TESOL Dubai | Investigating students’ recurrent failure in summative exams in the preparatory year in tertiary education in Saudi Arabia: Is it a vocabulary proficiency issue? | Phil Durrant |
| Margaret Peat | PhD | Jane Seale | |
| Sasiporn Phongploenpis | EdD TESOL | Preparation of Thai student teachers to work in bilingual education in the framework of promoting bi-/multilingual competences required in the future ASEAN Economic Community | Gaby Meier |
| Sari, Funny | EdD TESOL | Susan Riley | |
| Jamal Ramadhan | PhD | A longitudinal study of the development of Kurdish students’ English collocational knowledge. | Phil Durrant |
| James Scotland | EdD TESOL Dubai | Moving towards self-regulation in the zone of proximal development: An exploration of the relationship between co-construction of linguistic knowledge within a learner’s ZPD and the longer-term linguistic and mediated performance of a complex grammatical structure. | Phil Durrant |
| Muhammad Shah | EdD TESOL | The odyssey of professional excellence: A journey into lives of ‘highly effective’ TESOL professionals. | Phil Durrant |
| Lelania Sperrazza | EdD Dubai | Understanding writer identity in the United Arab Emirates | Salah Troudi |
| Halit Taylan | EdD TESOL | The language learning motivation of university-level students regarding L2 | Phil Durrant |
| H Van Dongen | EdD TESOL | Perspectives on implementation of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in Dutch secondary education | Phil Durrant |