Amanda Barton, PhD, BA Hons., PGCE
Lecturer in Education, PGCE MFL
Main research interests:
Gender and education; teacher retention; teacher education; teaching languages in primary schools (please see reports below):
Main teaching interests:
Gender and education; teacher retention; teaching languages in primary schools; teacher education
International experience:
Barton, A. (March-April 2008) Raising motivation in ML - led workshops for teachers in Canberra and Perth, Australia, funded by ACT Department of Education & Training and Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia
Barton, A. (November 2001) The challenge of training school-based mentors Goethe Institut, Athens (sponsored by British Council) Conference title: ' Training the Trainers in Foreign Language Education and Training', facilitated by the Hellenic Open University / Ministry of Education
Barton, A. (October 2000) Boys' underachievement in modern foreign language learning in the United Kingdom (sponsored by Edmonton Private Schools) Conference title: Languages: Passport for the Millennium, Edmonton , Canada
Selected recent publications:
Barton, A., Bragg, J. & Serratrice, L. (2009) Discovering Language in primary school: an evaluation of language awareness programme, Language Learning Journal, 37(2): 145-164
Barton, A. & Slaouti, D. (2007) Opportunities for practice and development: newly qualified teachers and the use of information and communications technologies in teaching foreign languages in English secondary school contexts, Journal of In-Service Training, 33(4): 405
Barton, A. & Downes, P. (2003) Differentiation and gender: boys and language learning, in Differentiation in the Modern Languages Classroom, ed. Lamb, T. & Raya, M., Frankfurt , Peter Lang: 21-39
Barton, A. (2006) Getting the Buggers into Languages, London , Continuum
Barton, A. (2002) Learning styles: the gender effect in Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools, ed. Swarbrick, A., London, RoutledgeFalmer / Open University: 272-285
Barton, A. (2001) Gender differences in pupils' perceptions of modern foreign languages in Reflections on motivation, ed. Chambers, G., London , CILT: 2-50
Barton, A. (2002) Teaching modern foreign languages to single-sex classes, Language Learning Journal, 25: 8-14