Antonia Paterson
University Affiliate
About me:
Antonia currently teaches English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She has worked as both tutor and Module Convener for XJTLU’s Foundation Year programmes, teaching students from Finance, Science, Engineering and Business disciplines. She now works as a Module Convener providing English language support for Master’s students at the university. Previously, she has taught General English in Italy, China and the UK.
Antonia is now studying for an EdD in TESOL with the University of Exeter. She holds an MA in TESOL from Durham University, a Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), and has completed two modules of the DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults). She also holds a Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, subsequently gaining Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
To date, Antonia has presented at conferences in China and Cambodia, and has presented her research at Exeter University’s EdD Summer Research Forum. She has been a member of XJTLU's Teaching Development Fund panel, reviewing research projects for funding, and acted as peer reviewer on the in-house produced journal (English Teaching in China). Her research interests include student voice and identity, Transnational Education (TNE) in China, and the pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics to EAP.
Research Project:
In my current context I have carried out two research projects:
1. Student Voice in a TNE classroom
This focused on exploring students' own sense of voice within a TNE (transnational education) context in China, This critical action research identified some of the constraints upon student voice in this context and some possible methods for promoting greater sense of voice among the students.
2. Cross-cultural Perceptions of Professionalism
This study combined interviews and document analysis to explore cross-cultural perceptions of 'professionalism' within a joint Sino-British university in China.
Research Supervisory team:
Project 1: Dr. Salah Troudi
Project 2: Professor Vivienne Baumfield
Research Wider Research Interests:
I am particularly interested in cultural influences on teaching and learning. The emergence of TNE (Transnational education) in higher education delivery and its impact on students and teachers meeting through such exchanges is of great interest to me, and I find within this context a wealth of possibilities for exploring cultural impacts on learning, perceptions of roles, negotiations of meaning and expectations, and requirements of teachers and students in terms of language needs and skills. I am currently exploring the use of corpus linguistics in EAP and am finding great interest in discovering its application to this field.
Professional Development:
2017-02-18
Conferences/Symposiums-13th Annual Cam TESOL Conference
Presentation delivered: 'Use of a classroom participation assessment to motivate EAP students'
2016-12-00
Conferences/Symposiums-XJTLU Professional Development Symposium
Presentation delivered: Use of a classroom participation assessment to motivate EAP students
2016-07-15
Conferences/Symposiums-University of Exeter Postgraduate Research Forum
Paper presented: Critically Contextualising Student Voice in a TNE context
2016-05-00
Conferences/Symposiums-China EAP Association Annual Conference
3 presentations delivered on EAP curriculum design, Assessment Design in EAP, and TESOL and Professionalism.
2014-00-00
Organisation membership -Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2014-00-00
Professional Qualification-Certificate in Professional Studies
2011-00-00
Professional Development Course-Teaching English for Academic Purposes Teacher Development Course, SOAS, London
2010-00-00
Professional Qualification-CELTA
