Tony Wright
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Head of Postgraduate Programmes
School/Department:
International Education
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 3176
Email:
twright@marjon.ac.uk
Qualifications:

2002 Certificate in Online Education and Training
1992 Ph.D
1982 MA
1980 RSA Cert. TEFL
1970 PGCert
1968 BA (Dual Hons)
Research Background:

1992 PhD (University of Lancaster) Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language.Thesis title: ‘Critical Moments in the Second Language Classroom: Towards an Understanding of Second Language Classroom Culture’.

1997-1998 Classroom Action Research Project. Consultant to EU-funded project in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Finland and Portugal . Designed and ran two courses in Plymouth for participating teachers. Contribution to project publications.

1998-2000 English Language Teaching Improvement Project ( Bangladesh ). Consultant on impact assessment. Collaborated with Bangladeshi and UK-appointed consultants on research-based impact assessment of this DFID-funded project.
Research Interests:

Main Research Interests:  

  • Educational Processes in the Classroom: Investigation of classrooms, in particular the relationships between educational discourses and classroom life.
  • Professional Development of Teacher Educators & Teachers: Investigation of professional development processes, in particular the impact of teacher education on professional learning and the transfer of knowledge and skills both for individuals and across different contexts.
Teaching Areas:

Teacher Educator Development
Practitioner Research
Teacher Development
Language Awareness
Research Methodology

Among Tony’s responsibilities in the Centre of International Education are leadership and teaching on the Postgraduate programme (MEd/PGDip/PGCert), supervision of PhD research students and contributions to various teacher and trainer development programmes at College and overseas. Tony also leads on initiatives which incorporate ICT in teaching and learning.Tony has lived and worked in Malawi , Sudan , Cameroon , Iran and Saudi Arabia as well as working on projects in Africa (Ethiopia , Swaziland , Namibia and Zambia ), Asia (Malaysia , Pakistan and Bangladesh ), Latin America (Mexico and Costa Rica ) and Europe (Hungary and Romania ) since joining Marjon in 1991.His current overseas work includes participation in an MEd programme in Mexico and consultancy work and teaching on various initiatives in Malaysia and Pakistan . He also speaks regularly at international conferences , most recently in  Malaysia (Penang English Language Learning and Teaching Association 2005, IATEFL 2005, MEXTESOL 2005, INGED Turkey 2006, PELLTA, Malaysia; Aga Khan University, Pakistan; AzETA, Azerbaijan 2007). He recently contributed to a Project "Training Teacher Educators" for the European Council of Modern Languages. http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/TrainEd/default.htm

His most recent publications are 'Classroom Management in Language Education'. Palgrave (2005) http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403940894

and

'Trainer Development' (with Rod Bolitho ) (2007) [available online at http://www.lulu.com/content/554846 ISBN 978-1847532329
Publications:

‘Roles of Teachers and Learners’ Oxford University Press (1987)
’Investigating English’ Edward Arnold (1994)
Papers in edited collections and journals, most recently: ‘Trainer Development: Professional development for language teacher educators’ in A. Burns and J. Richards (eds) ‘The Cambridge Guide to Language Teacher Education’ Cambridge University Press (2008 forthcoming)
State of the Art Review "Initial Teacher Education" in Language Teaching (2009 forthcoming)
'Managing Clasroom Life' in S. Gieve and I. Miller (2006) eds. 'Understanding Language Classrooms' Palgrave
'‘Doing language awareness’ In H. Trappes-Lomax and G. Ferguson (2002) eds ‘Language and Language Teacher Education’ John Benjamin.
Co-editorship of Cambridge University Press ‘Teacher Training and Development’ series. Titles include Randall & Thornton 'Advising & Supporting Teachers', Wallace 'Action Research for Language Teachers'

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