MA TESOL

Hi Everyone,

I am Juup Stelma, and ‘come from’ a bunch of places… I was born in Trondheim, Norway, grew up on a small island called Kirkoy, also Norway, my parents are both Dutch, my name is Frisian (where those black and white cows are from) I have a Chinese great great grand parent, my wife is from Turkey and our son is British. We have been in Manchester since 2005, when I was lucky enough to be offered Mike Beaumont’s (old) post in the TESOL group at Manchester. Of course, I jumped on the opportunity, and have since found myself in the fine company of Gary, Diane, Richard, Zeynep, Julian, Rob, Susan and lots and lots of super B, M and D level students coming and going.

As far as TEFLing goes, I did one of those RSA certificates at IH in Hasting in 1993, and then went to work and live in Seoul, S Korea for four years. Ater this I found my way onto a MA TESOL course at the University of Leeds. This is where I met my wife (also a TESOL person). I liked academic life and went on to do a PhD. I also did some teaching at Leeds, working among other on a teacher education programme for Omani primary school English teachers. After the PhD (classroom interaction / young learners) I worked as a research fellow for a while before ending up at Manchester.

On the MA TESOL at Manchester I teach on the Psychology of Language course unit (with Gary) and the Developing Researcher Competence unit (with Richard). I am also involved in the new unit called ‘Explorations in Language’ where I do some sessions on transcribing and analysing spoken discourse. My research interests mirror these teaching activities.

Ongoing research:

I am right now working on three strands of research.

Currently the most active: the further development of the ecological model of developing researcher competence that I developed in the recent Instructional Science paper (see below).

Simmering along: looking at how transcription practices are reported in UK social science (including Education) research.

Temporarily less active: trying to understand the dynamics of spoken L2 learning using intonation unit based transcription as an analytical tool.

I also have an ongoing research interest in the teaching of English to young learners.

 

Publications:

• Stelma, J. (pre-pub). An ecological model of developing researcher competence: the case of software use in doctoral research. Instructional Science. Available online, DOI: 10.1007/s11251-010-9132-7.

• Stelma, J. and Onat-Stelma, Z. (2010). Foreign language teachers organising learning during their first year of teaching young learners. Language Learning Journal, 38(2): 193-207.

• Stelma, J. (2010). What is communicative language teaching? In S. Hunston and D. Oakey (Eds.) Introducing Applied Linguistics (pp. 53-59). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. See commentary on book chapters online.

• Stelma, J.H. & Cameron, L.J. (2007). Intonation units in spoken interaction: developing transcription skills. Text & Talk,  27(3): 361-393.
• Onat-Stelma, Z. & Stelma, J. (2007).  Understanidng dynamics supportive of learning in the young learner classroom. Proceedings from the IATEFL Annual Conference. Harrogate.
• Cameron, L.J. & Stelma, J.H. (2004). Metaphor clusters in discourse, Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(2): 107-136.

Conference papers:

• Onat-Stelma, Z. and Stelma, J. (2010). Contextual influences on the professional development of Turkish young learner teachers. International ELT Conference on Teacher Education and Development. Maltepe University, Istanbul, 7-8 May, 2010.

• Stelma, J. (2009). Reporting of transcription practices in ESRC funded research projects. British Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Manchester, 2-5 September 2009. Paper version is available online.

• Cameron, L. & Stelma, J. (2004). Visual display of metaphor use in conciliation talk: methodological considerations. Paper given at the British Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, 9-11 September 2004, Kings College, London.
• Cameron, L. & Stelma, J. (2004). The use of metaphor in conciliation talk. Paper given at the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, 1-4 May 2004, Portland, OR, USA.
• Cameron, L. & Stelma, J. (2004). The dynamics of metaphor in conciliation talk. Paper given at the Sociolinguistics Symposium, 1-4 April 2004, Newcastle.
• Stelma, J. (2003). Visualising the dynamics of learner interaction: cases from a Norwegian language classroom. Doctoral thesis, University of Leeds, April 2003.
• Stelma, J. (2003). A visual tool for analysing the dynamics of learner interaction. Paper given at the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, 22-25 March, 2003, Arlington, VA, USA.
• Stelma, J. (2001). Visually representing learner interaction: a methodological suggestion for process-based and dynamical perspectives.   Paper given at the British Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, 6-8 September, 2001, University of Reading.
• Stelma, J. (2000). Visually representing classroom interaction: in search of a methodology.   Paper given at the BAAL/CUP Seminar on Complexity Theory and Language Acquisition. 1-2 December, 2000, University of Leeds.

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