Dr. David Atkinson
Responsibilities
- Senior Lecturer in Spanish
- Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Academic background
1977: B.A. European Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
1979: Certificado de Aptitud (aleman) Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, Bilbao, Spain.
1980: R.S.A. Dip. TEFLA International House, London, UK
1985: M.A. Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, UK
1989: Final Diploma in Spanish with distinction in all parts, Institute of Linguists, London, UK
1999: PhD in Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
In the earlier part of my career I taught English as a Foreign Language in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Mexico and trained language teachers extensively. I was Senior Lecturer in Language Studies at Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK from 1988 to 1990 and Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Sunderland for ten years until I joined UL in 2000 as Senior Lecturer in Spanish.
Research Interests
- Language and Power/Critical Discourse Analysis
- Language Policy and Language Planning
- The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World
- Popular music in Spain
- Language and the media
- Language teaching methodology and language learning
Teaching Interests
- Linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Translation and interpreting
- Text analysis
- Contemporary Hispanic fiction
Selected Publications
1987, ‘The mother tongue in the classroom: a neglected resource?’, English Language Teaching Journal, 41/4:241-247
1988, ‘The learner often forgets: memorisation in the post-communicative classroom’, Modern English Teacher 16/1:40-42
1989, ‘Humanistic techniques in the adult classroom: an affective reaction.’ English Language Teaching Journal, 43/4:268-273
1993, ‘Teaching in the target language: a problem in the current orthodoxy.’ Language Learning Journal 8:2-5
1993, Teaching Monolingual Classes (pp.106), Longman Keys to Language Teaching series ISBN 0 582 061105
1994, ‘Communicative language teaching in the 1990s: a consumer’s perspective.’ TESOL France, 2/1: 101-111.
1995, ‘Languages for all: the crucial role of the first few weeks.’ (with N. Reimann and J. Turner) Language Learning Journal 12: 26-30
1997, ‘Attitudes towards language use in Catalonia: politics or sociolinguistics?’ International Journal of Iberian Studies 10/1: 5-14
1998, ‘Normalisation: integration or assimilation? A response to Miquel Strubell.’ Current Issues in Language and Society 5/3: 210-214
1999, ‘Normalisation: integration or assimilation? A response to Miquel Strubell.’. Reprinted in Wright, S. (ed.) Language, Democracy and Devolution in Catalonia. Multilingual Matters, ISBN 1-85359-445-8
2000, ‘Language legislation in Catalonia: the 1998 Language Policy Act and the politics of normalisation.’ International Journal of Iberian Studies 13/2: 95-108.
2000 ‘Minoritisation, identity and ethnolinguistic vitality in Catalonia.’ Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 21/3: 185-197.
2003 Language and Power in the Modern World (pp. 342) with M. Talbot and K. Atkinson) Edinburgh University Press and University of Alabama Press. (ISBN: 0 7486 1539 3; 0 7486 1538 5; 0 8173 1384 2; 0 8173 5069 1.)
2006, Atkinson, D., M. Morán and D. Kelly (eds.). Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom at University: The TEMCU Project, Granada: Editorial Atrio. (pp 214) ISBN: 84-96101-41-X
2006, ‘Linguistic and cultural issues in teaching Erasmus students.’ In Atkinson, D., M. Morán and D. Kelly. Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom at University: The TEMCU Project (pp 141-151) Granada: Editorial Atrio. ISBN: 84-96101-41-X
2006, TEMCU module materials (see above)
2006, ‘Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns’, Journal of Language and Politics 5/2: 239-249.
2006, Atkinson, D. and H. Kelly-Holmes. ‘Linguistic normalisation and the market: advertising and linguistic choice in El Periódico de Catalunya’, Journal of Language Problems and Language Planning 30/3:239-60
In press: Kelly-Holmes, H. and D. Atkinson. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, (2007), ‘Minority language advertising: a profile of two Irish-language newspapers’ 28/1
In press: Kelly-Holmes, H. and D. Atkinson. ‘When Hector met Tom Cruise: Attitudes to Irish in a radio satire.’ In Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds.) Language in the Media. London and New York: Continuum, forthcoming 2007.
Postgraduate Students Supervised
PhD
2004 Hayat Maarafi. PhD awarded (University of Sunderland) Project title: Motivation in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in the Department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Qatar. External examiner: Dr Gary Chambers, School of Education, University of Leeds.
Máireád Moriarty. Current PhD student. University of Limerick. Project title: A comparative study of the media language situation in Euskadi and Ireland.
Taught MA
Passas Martínez, S. ‘Llanito: a Third Way of Communication, an Autonomous Language or a Form of Code Switching and/or Code Mixing’. Awarded 2003.
Lowe, B. ‘An Investigation of Possible Patterns Between Students’ Country of Origin and Their Attitudes Towards Three Varieties of English’. Awarded 2004.
Ryan, D. ‘Lexical Chunks and That Kind of Stuff – A Comparative Corpus-based Analysis of Advanced Spanish EFL Students’ and Native Spakers’ Use of Lexical Chunks’. Awarded 2005.
Oneda Kahn, E. ‘Discourse Markers: a Comparative Corpus-based Analysis of Brazilian EFL/ESL Students and Native English Speakers’. Current.