Speaker: Professor Simon Borg
Time: 3 pm, November 27th, 2020
Place: zoom 367 152 3284
Sponsor: SHNU College of Foreign Studies
Professor Simon Borg has been involved in language teaching for 30 years, working as a teacher, lecturer and researcher in a range of international contexts. He has also worked on the editorial boards of leading journals in language education, such as TESOL Quarterly, System, and Language Teaching Research. After 15 years at the University of Leeds, where he was Professor of TESOL and Head of the Language Education team, he now works primarily as an educational consultant, with a particular focus on designing, implementing and evaluating language teacher professional development policies and programmes. Details of his consultancy work are available at http://simon-borg.co.uk/. He has worked with teachers in China for many years and has also co-published articles with Chinese colleagues. ‘The Study of Language Teacher Cognition’ - a compendium of his key publications - was published in 2015 by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. He is recognised for his academic work on teacher cognition and teacher education and has published over 100 books, chapters and articles.