Mrs Nur Kurtoglu-Hooton

Profile

I have been working at Aston since 1994. Until 2005 I was involved with managing, developing, and teaching on a range of programmes that have included the pre-sessional and in-sessional academic English courses for overseas students, language courses for foundation year students, communication skills courses for home students, and IELTS preparatory courses. I have also been teaching on teacher education courses ranging from the Certificate in TEFL course, to the distance learning Advanced Certificate in TEFL and Diploma in Professional TESOL Studies.

Since 2005, my work has extended to the teaching of the Course and Materials Design (CMD) module on the MSc in TESOL and the Teaching in Practice module on the MA in TESOL Studies.

Qualifications

• PhD study: ongoing; topic: the effect of post-observation feedback on beginning teachers, Aston University 
• MSc in Teaching English (Aston University), 1992
• RSA DOTE, 1990
• BA in English Language and Literature (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), 1983

Teaching

• Course and Materials Design module specialist MSc in TESOL
• Teaching in Practice module tutor, MA in TESOL
• Tutor, Certificate in Advanced Studies in ELT
• Tutor, Diploma in Professional TESOL Studies 
• Tutor, second year Undergraduate - TESOL module

Academic Interests

• Teacher learning and change
• Post-observation feedback on teacher training courses
• Teaching reading and writing skills
• E-learning: VLEs, the role of e-portfolios in teaching and learning. Podcasting
• Research Methods
• Action Research
• EAP

Responsibilities

• Programme Director, MA in TESOL Studies
• Programme Co-Director, MA in TESOL and Translation Studies
• LSS Teaching Fellow inTechnology-enhanced Learning, 2008-09 [Project title:Enhanced Learning and professional development through an e-portfolio system]

Membership in Professional Organisations

Member AMLRF of Aston Modern Languages Research Foundation, Aston University

IATEFL - International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

Publications

Recent Publications

• Kurtoglu Hooton, N. 2008: 'The Design of Post-Observation Feedbackand Its Impact on Student Teachers'. In Garton, S and Richards, K (eds) Professional Encounters in TESOL: Discourses of Teachers in Teaching. Palgrave http://www.palgrave.com/Products/Title.aspx?PID=280618
• Wright, S. and Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2006. ‘Language Maintenance: the case of a Turkish speaking community in Birmingham’. In International Journal of the Sociology of the Language. No. 181 pp 43-56.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2004. Post-observation feedback as an instigator of teacher learning and change (featured article) IATEFL TTEd SIG e-Newsletter July 2004 no 2 http://www.aston.ac.uk/downloads/lss/staff/FeatureArticles.pdf
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2003. ‘Steps towards gaining a professional teacher identity’. IATEFL Conference selections, Brighton.
• Morris-Adams, M. and Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2002. ‘Conversational mentoring in a distance learning context’ IALS Symposium 2002. Edinburgh University. 13-15 October 2002 (CD-ROM).

Conference Papers

• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2007.’Exploring the realms of post-observation feedback and teacher change’. 41^st International Annual IATEFL Conference, TTEd Special Interest Group track talk, Aberdeen.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2006. Invited Plenary address. 'Pushing the Boundaries of Feedback' Middle East Technical University, International Convention "Fusion of Theory and Practice" Ankara, 3-5 May 2006.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2006. Workshop as a follow-up to plenary 'Feedback in action: parallels between feedback on teaching practice and feedback on oral presentations' Middle East Technical University, International Convention "Fusion of Theory and Practice" Ankara, 3-5 May 2006.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2005. ‘Post observation feedback and its repercussions on teacher change’ Research Students' 8th Annual Summer Conference: Issues in Educational Research�CELTE, University of Warwick, 8 June 2005.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2003. ‘Steps towards gaining a professional teacher identity’. 37^th International Annual IATEFL Conference, Brighton.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2002. ‘In Search of Skilled Supervision’. IATEFL Symposium, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2002. ‘Making decisions in teacher supervision and post-observation feedback’. 36^th International Annual IATEFL Conference. TTEd Special Interest Group track talk.
• Morris-Adams, M. and Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. 2002 ‘Conversational mentoring in a distance learning context’ IALS Symposium 2002. Edinburgh University. 13-15 October 2002.

External Validation

• 2004 External adviser for review and validation of undergraduate English programmes. University of Wolverhampton.
• 1998 Panel member for Course Approval and Review Panel for Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Coventry University.