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English staff

Dr Judith Baxter, BA (East Anglia); PGCE (Cambridge); MSc (Surrey); PhD (Reading)

Specialisms: Language and gender; discourse analysis; the language of leadership; language and identity; semiotics; language of business and management; stylistics. j.a.baxter@aston.ac.uk

Dr Urszula Clark BA, PhD (Warwick)

Specialisms: Stylistics, theories of discourse, social and urban dialectology, language and identity, English pedagogy, contemporary detective fiction. u.i.l.clark@aston.ac.uk

Dr Fiona Copland PGCE (Manchester), MA, PhD (Birmingham)

Specialisms: Sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, teacher training and education, feedback in teacher education contexts, international students. f.m.copland@aston.ac.uk

Professor Malcolm Coulthard   BA (Sheffield) PGCE (London Inst of Ed) MA Ling (University College) PhD (Birm)

Specialisms: Forensic Linguistics; Language and the Law; Critical Discourse Analysis; Written Discourse; Spoken Interaction. r.m.coulthard@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sue Garton MSc, PhD (Aston)

Specialisms: Interaction in the Language Classroom, Teacher Beliefs, Teacher Education, TESOL. s.garton@aston.ac.uk 

Dr Tim Grant, BA, MSc, PhD (Birmingham)

Specialisms: Forensic linguistics. t.d.grant@aston.ac.uk

Dr Nur Hooton
Specialisms: Teacher Edcuation, Teacher Learning, Feedback Giving Skills, the role of e-Portfolios in Teaching and Learning
n.hooton@aston.ac.uk

Dr Krzysztof Kredens, MA in English Studies (Lodz) PhD in English Linguistics (Lodz)

Specialisms: Forensic linguistics, linguistics of the individual speaker, corpus linguistics, translation studies, public service interpreting. kredenkj@aston.ac.uk

Ramesh Krishnamurthy BA/MA (Cantab), BA (Lond)

Specialisms: Corpus analysis, lexicography, collocation. R.Krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk

 

Dr Carol Marley BA, MPhil, PhD (Birmingham)

Specialisms: Written and spoken discourse: gender; identity construction in speech and writing; narrative; systemic functional linguistics.c.n.marley@aston .ac.uk

Dr Muna Morris-Adams B.Soc.Sci. (Birmingham), MSc TESOL (Aston), PhD Appl. Linguistics (Aston)

Specialisms: Language teaching methodology, teacher education, teaching speaking skills, classroom interaction, analysis of discourse. m.m.adams@aston.ac.uk

Claire Richardson

Specialisms: English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English language testing and intercultural communication. c.richardson2@aston.ac.uk