Lauren Knowles English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor
英语语言教学中心



联系方式 办公室
Trent Building Room 242

校园
University of Nottingham Ningbo China

地址
199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo, 315100, China

电话
+86 (0) (Ext. 8605)

邮箱
Lauren.Knowles@nottingham.edu.cn



学历
FHEA
DELTA
BAHons

个人简介
Lauren Knowles is an EAP tutor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. Prior to this post, she taught English in Spain, Italy, Argentina and Qatar where she completed a Graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching and trained as a teacher trainer. She then specialised in English for Academic Purposes during her employment at Newcastle University and developed an interest in English for Science and Engineering. Now at UNNC she co-convenes the English for Engineering module for preliminary year students and is completing an MA in English Linguistics.


研究方向
Current Research Projects:
Investigating Student Motivation and use of Learning Technologies (Cross-faculty).
Gamification of Learning – gaming for revision using ‘PaGamO’ (in conjunction with LRLR)
Current Teaching and Learning Projects:
T&L Conference Committee member 2020
Local DELTA Mentor/Assessor


奖项 / 专利
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy


发表文章
“Investigating the Idea of EAP Classroom Diglossia and Patterns of Code Switching” in The Conference Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Language Learning 2019, Tokyo.
“Can Clicker Technology and the latest Online Response Systems enhance Student Engagement? A Comparative Study of two Approaches” in AETI 2019 Post-Conference Book. (Co-author)
Link toLauren's ORCID ID page: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0949-1582


学术交流
“Are we Using Technology for its Novelty Value or Because it is Useful?” at the HE Advance Conference 2^nd-4^th July 2019, Newcastle (Co-presenter).
“Investigating the Idea of EAP Classroom Diglossia and Patterns of Code Switching” at the Asian Conference on Language Learning 16^th-18^th May 2019, Tokyo.