.

Dr Muna Morris-Adams

Lecturer

Room: NW 916
Phone: 0121 204 3780
E-Mail: m.m.adams@aston.ac.uk
Dr Muna Morris-Adams

I worked as a translator and social worker before starting to teach German, English and women’s self-defence. My connection with Aston goes back to 1987 when I did the very first Certificate in TEFL course run by the then Language Studies Unit. The following year I started teaching on EAP courses, and went from there to get involved with the expansion of EAP/ESP short course provision, as well as distance learning and on-campus teacher training courses.

Teaching

  • MSc in TESOL (Methodology)
  • MA in TESOL Studies  - Teaching in Practice
  • Course Director for the Certificate in Advanced Studies in ELT (distance learning for experienced teachers)
  • Analysis of Spoken Discourse on undergraduate courses
  • Academic Language Skills
  • PhD supervision

Qualifications

  • B. Soc.Sc. Birmingham University
  • Dip. TFLA Edinburgh University
  • Institute of Linguists Diploma (German)
  • MSc in TESOL Aston University
  • IELTS examiner
  • PhD Applied Linguistics (Aston University)

Research/ academic interests:

  • Language teaching methodology
  • Teacher education
  • Teaching speaking skills
  • Classroom interaction
  • Analysis of discourse
  • Member of BAAL and IATEFL

Publications and conference presentations

It’s good to talk.  Featured presenter at KOTESOL International Conference, Seoul, 2011

  • How’s it going? Conversational competence in intercultural encounters, TESOL Spain 2010
  • Task-based learning and teaching: opportunities and challenges. Plenary talk ELT conference, Cuba 2010
  • Pair work – talking in turn or turn-taking? in Pulverness, A (2004) 2003 Brighton Conference Selections
  • Presentations on same topic at IATEFL 2003 and TESOL Spain 2005
  • Conversational mentoring in distance learning ( with N. Hooton) in Gollin J, Ferguson G and Trappes-Lomax, H (2003) Symposium for Language Teacher Educators IALS, University of Edinburgh
  • Reflections on the relevance and outcomes of a Communication Skills course for 1st year undergraduates University of Luton : Symposium on Academic Communication Skills 2004
  • Responses to feedback in a distance learning context TESOL Greece 2006
  • 'But anyway...' Topic management in native-speaker/non-native-speaker conversations China: 5th International Conference on ELT in China 2007
  • Dealing with misunderstandings: lessons from native-speaker/non-native-speaker conversations Japan: JALT 2007
  • Going outside the classroom in Garton, S. & Richards, K. (eds.) 2008
  • Professional Encounters in TESOL: Discourses of Teachers in Teaching Palgrave Macmillan