Dr Gwyneth James

I am a Senior Lecturer in TESOL/ELT and also the Programme Leader for the MA TESOL.

Since beginning my journey as a researcher 10 years ago with my doctorate where I investigated international students' learning and transition experiences using narrative inquiry, my subsequent research has developed the use of narrative inquiry.  Remaining in the field of TESOL/ELT it now includes early career ELT teachers resilience and has expanded to refugees' resilience as well as continuing to research students' experiences of studying.

In addition I am interested in the role of autoethnography as "the other side" to the narrative inquiry coin.

• narrative inquiry
• resilience
• students' learning experiences
• transition
• second language identity
• intercultural citizenship

Current research supervision is in the following areas:

University students’ lived experiences of developing Active Empathic Listening skills in online synchronous learning;

Lived experiences of international postgraduate students on business degree programmes;

A Narrative Inquiry into English Language learning and social capital formation among displaced Myanmar youths on the Thai-Myanmar Border;

Analysing potential changing perceptions that student teachers have about their own multilingual identities as they undertake an initial teacher education programme;

Native speaker student teachers of Modern Languages: Learning from their beliefs, attitudes and experiences to improve Initial Teacher Training;

Curriculum development of College English Extension Classes at a private university in China;

Problems in teaching English to College English students in a Chinese university.

• TESOL
• ELT
• Intercultural communication
• Global Englishes / TEIL
• SLA