I am Juup Stelma and I am 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, 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. I jumped on the opportunity and have since found myself in the great company of Gary, Diane, Richard, Zeynep, Julian, Susan and a great lot of B, M and D level students coming and going.
As far as TESOL goes, I did an RSA/Cambridge certificate at International House Hasting in 1993, and then went to work and live in Seoul, South Korea for a few years. After this I found my way onto a MA TESOL course at the University of Leeds. I enjoyed the academic environment and went on to do a PhD. I also did some teaching at Leeds, including teaching UK undergraduate students and working on a teacher education programme for Omani primary school English teachers. Post PhD I worked as a research fellow for a while before ending up at Manchester.
On the MA TESOL at Manchester I teach the Psychology of Language Learning course unit and the Developing Researcher Competence unit (with Richard). I am also involved in the new unit called ‘Explorations in Language’ where I do sessions on transcribing and analysing spoken discourse.
Ongoing research:
I am currently working on the following strands of research:
Currently the most active: the further development of the ecological model of developing researcher competence and more. See my Instructional Science paper (details further down) and paper (with Richard Fay) being revised for Studies in Higher Education.
I expect the next steps to be: a) linking ‘context’ and ‘reflection’ conceptually and empirically using my developing ecological thinking, and b) beginning to consider what an Ecological Perspective on Teaching English to Young Learners – an Ecological TEYL – might look like.
Autumn 2011: Just started co-writing a paper with Zeynep trying to link context and reflection both empirically and conceptually, looking again at the experiences of the participants’ in Zeynep’s completed doctoral research. This paper may well be influenced by my ecological thinking. However, Zeynep will lead and it will not be an overtly ecological paper.
Richard Fay and I are continuing to look at the connected concepts of a) ‘reflection in action/practice’ and b) ‘reflection in and on learning’; linking these to our work on developing researcher competence. Richard is leading on this. Later I might want to look at how Schön’s thinking (‘reflection in action/practice’ and ‘(reflective) conversation with the situation’) may relate to the developing ecological thinking. Again, this might well involve Richard as part of our ongoing co-research activity.
Under Review:
Submitted to the International Journal of Social Research Methodology:
Stelma, J. (under review). Reporting of transcription practices in UK ESRC funded Education and Sociology research.
Being Revised:
Submitted to Studies in Higher Education and revisions were requested:
Stelma, J. and Fay, R. (under revision) . Intentionality and developing researcher competence on a UK Masters course: an ecological perspective on research education.
Publications:
- Sangani, A-H. and Stelma, J. (2012). Reflective practice in developing world contexts: a general review of literature and a specific consideration of an Iranian experience. Professional Development in Education, 38(1):113-129. DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2011.587526
- Stelma, J. (2011). An ecological model of developing researcher competence: the case of software technology in doctoral research. Instructional Science, 39(3): 367-385. Link to Paper
- 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. Link to Paper
- 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. Link to Paper
- Onat-Stelma, Z. & Stelma, J. (2007). Understanding 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. Link to Paper
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.
