MA TESOL

Diane has been with the TESOL team since 1996 She began her teaching career as a secondary school teacher of French and German, moving to TESOL contexts when she went to work for the British Council in Algeria in the 1980s.

Her teaching and research have revolved largely around the use of technologies in teaching and learning, and she is particularly interested in how language teachers harness these in their varied contexts. Over time, this interest has increasingly addressed online learning environments and tools, exploring how the continually evolving developments in this area impact on teachers and their practice.

These interests are reflected in the various courses she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels; they are also reflected in the areas that her PhD students have explored including the adoption of ICT in specific teaching contexts, teacher beliefs and technology use, the use of online environments in the support of teacher trainees, synchronous CMC tasks and negotiation of meaning.

Diane has been and is currently involved in specific research projects that explore how teachers perceive the opportunities and challenges that technology presents to their practice:

• Current (2007-2009) with Gary Motteram and Zeynep Onat-Stelma: A worldwide investigation of EFL teacher use of technology for adult language learning. Funded by Cambridge University Press

• 2003-2005 with Amanda Barton: Exploring the factors that impact on newly qualified teachers’ use of ICT in teaching MFL during the induction year in secondary school’. Funded by the Teacher Development Agency.

Selected papers:

• Slaouti, D. (2007). Teacher learning about online learning: experiences of a situated approach. European Journal of Teacher Education, 3(3), 285-304
• Slaouti, D. and Barton, A. (2007). Opportunities for practice and development: newly qualified teachers and the use of ICT in teaching foreign languages in English secondary school contexts. Journal of In-service Education, 3(4), 405-424
• Slaouti, D. and Motteram, G. (2006) Reconstructing Practice: Language Teacher Education and ICT. In Hubbard, P. and Levy, M (eds.) Teacher Education in CALL. John Benjamins Publishing (see http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/callted)
• Slaouti, D. (2006). Learning about online learning: a situated approach. In Sercu, L. and Jimenez Raya, M. (Eds.) Challenges in Teacher Development: Learner Autonomy and Intercultural Competence Peter Lang
• Forrester, G., Motteram, G., Parkinson, G., Slaouti, D. (2005). Going the distance: students’ experiences of induction to distance learning in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 29 (4), 293-306
• Slaouti, D. (2002). The WWW for Academic Purposes: old study skills for new? English for Specific Purposes Journal 21: 105-124
• Slaouti, D. (2001). Student ‘voices’ and course development: reading the signs on a distance course in educational technology. Association of Learning Technologies Journal, 9/1: 62-72

Selected conferences and workshops:

• (2007) ICT in the teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language, Teacher Development seminar and consultancy visit, American University Cairo
• 2007, ‘The online world of [second language] writing; a world of [second language] writers online!’ Plenary address IATEFL Learning Technologies seminar, Aberdeen
• 2006, (with Motteram, G) ‘Designing for e-learning,’ British Council International Seminar, ‘ICT for ELT: Putting the learning into e-learning’. (see http://www.britishcouncil.org/seminars.htm)
• 2006, ‘Teacher learning through online interaction: exploring the design and impact of interactive processes in an online language teacher education course’. European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) conference, Granada
• 2006, (with Fay, R.) ‘Design for e-learning: interrogating the decisions of tutors-as-course-designers’. E-Competences for Life, Employment and Innovation. European Distance Education Network conference, Vienna
• 2005, ‘Reflective Teacher Development Online: Possibilities, Challenges and Actuality’. British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference, Manchester
• 2003, ‘Researching ICT in practice’. Invited lecture on Technology and Teacher Education, Graduates of British Universities Association in conjunction with the ORT University of Uruguay

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