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Dr Sue Garton

Director of Postgraduate Programmes in English

MSc/MA Programme Tutor


Room: NW 918
Phone: 0121 204 3806
Fax: 0121 204 3766
Email: s.garton@aston.ac.uk

 

Dr Sue Garton

Qualifications

  • PhD Applied Linguistics (University of Aston)
  • MSc Teaching English (University of Aston)
  • BA Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (University of Bologna)
  • BA European Studies (University of Hull)

Teaching

  • PhD supervision

  • Foundation Module on the MSc in TESOL/TESP/EMT/TEYL

  • Teaching in Practice and Approaches to Course and Materials Design on the MA in TESOL Studies/ MA in TESOL and Translation Studies/MA Applied Linguistics

  • Academic Language Skills on the International Foundation Programme

Research Interests

  • Classroom interaction
  • Teacher beliefs and language teaching 
  • Teacher education and development
  • E-learning pedagogy
  • Policy and practice issues in TESOL

Responsibilities

Academic Director of the Centre for English Language and Communication at Aston (CELCA)

Programme Director for the PhD in Applied Linguistics by coursework and thesis.

Membership in Professional Organisations

  • Member of the TESOL Standing Committee for Research

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel, ELT Journal

  • Member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

  • Member of IATEFL

Recent Publications

Edge, J. and Garton, S. 2009. From Experience to Knowledge in ELT. Oxford:Oxford University Press

Copland, F. and Garton, S. (accepted for publication). ‘I felt that I do live in the UK now’: international students’ self-reports of their English language speaking experiences on a pre-sessional programme.  Language and Education

Garton, S. and Copland, F. (2010). ‘I like this interview; I get cakes and cats!’: the effects of prior relationships on interview talk.’ Qualitative Research 10/5:533-551.

Garton, S. (2009). Investigating EFL teacher beliefs about teaching and learning IATEFL Research News (23). pp. 10-13.

Garton S. (2004). It’s not what you do; it’s how you say it.  IATEFL Research News 14: 29-34.

Garton, S. 2002. Learner initiative and classroom interaction. ELT Journal 56 (1),47-56.

Garton, S. and Richards, K (eds). (2008) Professional Encounters in TESOL: Discourses of Teachers in Teaching. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Garton S. and Richards, K. 2007. Is distance education for teacher second best? The Teacher Trainer 21/3:5-8.

Research Projects

  • Activities for Teaching Young Learners (2011)  British Council ELT Research Award. With Dr Fiona Copland and Professor Anne Burns.

  • Taking Steps towards CLIL (2010-2011). LinkedUp Awards Scheme. With Dr Fiona Copland

  • Investigating Global practices in teaching English to Young Learners (2010) British Council ELT Research Award. With Dr Fiona Copland and Professor Anne Burns.

Recent Conference Presentations

‘Life after on-line learning’. Invited Colloquium participant with Fiona Copland at the 45th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit, New Orelans, Louisiana, USA, 17th-19th March, 2011

‘Global Issues and Local Contexts in Teaching English toYoung Learners’ Advancing ELT in the Global Context, PAC-KOTESOL International Conference,Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, October 16-17 2010.

‘I want to make friends with different people in different country’: creating social opportunities for international students.’ Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport, UK, 8-10 December 2009.

“Method or interaction? Creating learning opportunities in the English classroom”. British Council Academic Lecture series, British Council, Seoul, Korea. 24th June 2009

“Changing Directions in On-line Teacher Education”. Invited Colloquium participant, The 43rd Annual TESOL Convention & Exhibit, Denver, Colorado, USA, 25th-28th March 2009.

“What teachers think and what teachers do: towards a better understanding of language teaching”.  1erColoquio Internacional sobre Investigación en Lenguas ExtranjerasFacultad de Idiomas, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, 12th-14th  February 2009. Invited plenary.

“They reply well and I bought my sim card finally’: international students’ self-reports of their English language speaking experiences”. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, 9-11 December 2008.

 ‘I like this interview; I get cakes and cats’: role and identity in the research interview. Advances in Language, Ethnography and Communication.  Aston University, Birmingham, 10-11 September 2008.

“Process and Person Orientations to TESOL”. 42nd Annual International IATEFL Conference & Exhibition, Exeter, 7-11 April 2008.