Dr. Freda Mishan
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English Language Teaching
- Course Director: MA in English Language Teaching
- Section leader in ELT/Linguistics
Academic background:
- Former IRCHSS Post-Doctoral scholar
- PhD in language learning materials design
- MA linguistics (TESOL)
Research interests:
- Language learning and new technologies
- Language learning materials development
- PBL (Problem-based learning)
- ELT
Selected recent publications:
2005 Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials, Intellect books, UK.
2010. Co-edited with A. Chambers. Perspectives on Language Learning Materials Development, Oxford: Peter Lang.
Chapters:
2012 (in press) ‘Studies of Pedagogy’, in B. Tomlinson and H. Masuhara (eds) Applied Linguistics and Materials Development, Continuum.
2012 (in press) ‘Modes of Delivery’, in B. Tomlinson and H. Masuhara (eds) Applied Linguistics and Materials Development, Continuum.
2010 ‘Withstanding washback: Thinking outside the box in materials development’ in B. Tomlinson and H. Masuhara (eds) Research for Materials Development in Language Learning, Continuum, pp353-368.
2010 ‘Designing authentic tasks in the digital era’ in F. Mishan and A. Chambers, (eds.) Perspectives on Language Learning Materials Development, Peter Lang, UK.
2009 ‘Genesis of an organic, universal, online coursebook’ in J. Mukundan (Ed.) Readings on ELT Materials III. Pearson Malaysia, pp 61-71. Co-written with L. Prodromou
2008. ‘Materials Used in Western Europe’ in B. Tomlinson, (ed.). English Language Learning Materials: A Critical Review. UK, Continuum Press.
2007 ‘Chat: ‘an emergent language variety’ – but how useful for language learning?’ in Conacher, J. E. and H. Kelly-Holmes (eds.) series editor G. Bach. New Learning Environments for Language Learning, KFU series, Volume 28 Bremen, Peter Lang, pp. 189-204.
Journal Articles:
2011 ‘Whose learning is it anyway? Problem-Based Learning in language teacher development’, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 5/3, 253-272.
2004 ‘Authenticating corpora for language learning: a problem and its resolution’ ELT Journal, Volume 58 No. 3: 219-227