MA TESOL

I have been working at the University of Manchester since 1985 and was responsible for setting up and am still running the first, and still innovative, Masters in Educational Technology and TESOL. This course still runs very successfully at Manchester and has graduates living and working throughout the world.

My main interests are in the uses of technology to support language learning and language teacher education and I have written in both of these areas.

I am a long time member of IATEFL and am currently co-ordinator of the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group.

You can contact me via email: gary dot motteram at manchester dot ac dot uk; on Skype: garymotteram (try a chat message if I don’t appear to be online); I have a page on FaceBook and microblog using Twitter (see the Flash plugin on a separate page in the left-hand menu);  in 2nd Life I am Gwared Morgwain. I even have a Web 1.0 space.

As well my regular MA teaching commitments, I also supervise research degrees in the areas of technology and language learning and technology and language teacher education. Please contact me directly if you’d like to enquire about PhD supervision.

Research
Recent research projects include eChina-UK (this site is currently best viewed using Internet Explorer) and LANCELOT.

My most recently completed project was funded by Cambridge University Press and is concerned with studying how teachers around the world use technology to support language learning. I worked on this with Diane Slaouti and Zeynep Onat-Stelma.

My current project is called AVALON and is another EU funded project concerned with language learning and teacher education in 2nd Life.

Visit AVALON

Recent Conference Papers

• 2006: (with Alejandro Armellini and Angela McLachlan) “Teaching and Learning with Desktop Video Conferencing: Towards Effective Practice.” DIVERSE Conference, Glasgow.
• 2006: (with Gillian Forrester and Angela McLachlan) “Designing eLearning Programmes for Teacher Development in China: Processes, Issues and Outcomes.” BERA Conference, Warwick.
• 2006: (with Alejandro Armellini, Angela McLachlan and Andy Hall) “Synchronous Online Tools and Their Uses in Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education.” PacCALL, Nanjing, China.
• 2007 (with Susan Brown) “Social Computing and Teacher Education.” IATEFL Conference, Aberdeen.
• 2007 (with Christian Swertz) “The LANCELOT Project: Language Teacher Education Using Desktop Video Conferencing.” EDEN, Naples Italy.
• 2007 (with Dhafir Kassasbeh) “Analysing Virtual Classrooms.” BAAL/ CUP Conference, UKOU, Milton Keynes.
• 2007 (with Sophie Iaonnou-Georgiou) “Are teachers fit for Web 6.0?” a joint ELTAI and LTSIG conference held at Loyola College, Chennai, India.
• 2007 “Glocalizing online learning: Will Web 2.0 be the answer?” KAMALL/KSET Annual Conference held in Soeul, Korea.
• 2008: “Sociocultural teacher education.” IATEFL Conference, Exeter. Talk recorded by the British Council and to be released on a CD.
• 2008: “Towards a cultural history of CALL.” WorldCALL, Fukuoka, Japan. (Proceedings online at: http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd12/index.php?id=6).
• 2009: “What every teacher should know about learning technologies.” 3rd Wireless Ready Conference, Nagoya, Japan. This was a Learning Technologies Special Interest Group (IATEFL) conference.
• 2009: “Web 2.0, language learning and the digital migrant”; “Technology and language teacher education: the changing scene”. IATEFL Slovenia.
• 2009: Digital games in language learning — “Why shooting zombies is good for your eyes.” IATEFL Cardiff, PCE.
• 2009: “3D Distance Language Teacher Education”. Online Educa, Berlin, Germany. Also, presented the AVALON project at the Pre-Conference Event.
• 2010: Keynote Presentation at the ICTs in ELT Conference in Croatia.
• 2010: Guest speaker at the EuroCALL Teacher Education SIG workshop.

Recent Publications

• 2005: (with Gill Forrester) “Becoming an online distance learner: what can be learned from students’ experiences of induction to distance programmes?” Distance Education Vol 26/3.
• 2005: (with Forrester, G., Parkinson, G. & Slaouti, D.) “Going the distance: students’ experiences of induction to distance learning in higher education.” Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol 29/4.
• 2006: “‘Blended’ education and the transformation of teachers: a long-term case study in postgraduate UK higher education”. British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 37/1.
• 2006: (with Diane Slaouti) “Reconstructing practice: a case study in language teacher education and ICT.” In Hubbard, P. and Levy, M. (Eds.) Teacher Education in CALL, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2006: (with Gill Forrester and Liu Bangxiang) “Transforming Chinese teachers’ thinking, learning and understanding via e-learning.” Journal of Education for Teaching, Vol 32/2.
• 2007: (with Gill Forrester, Sue Goldrick and Angela McLachlan) “Collaborating across boundaries: Managing the complexities of e-learning courseware production in a joint international project.” In Spencer-Oatey, H. (Ed) e-Learning Initiatives in China: Sino-UK Perspectives on Policy, Pedagogy and Collaborative Design. Hong Kong University Press.
• 2008: “Social computing and CALL” in Wang, W. and Xang Dong L. (Eds) (2008). Digital and Networked Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
• 2008: (with Susan Brown) “A context-based approach to Web 2.0 and language education” in Thomas, M. (Ed) (2008) Handbook of Research on Web and Second Language Learning.
• 2009: “Social computing and teacher education: an agenda for course development.” Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, Vol 3/1.
• 2009: “Blending learning in a Web 2.0 world”, International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, Vol 7/2. http://www.swinburne.edu.au/hosting/ijets/ijets/
  

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