Mike Beaumont BA (Oxford), Dip TEO (Manchester), MA (Lancaster)
Honorary Fellow
From October 2006 until the end of January 2007, Mike will be Guest Professor in Didactics and Language Teaching Methodology in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. He can be contacted at: mike.beaumont@univie.ac.at
Main research interests:
The training and development of second language teachers, second language acquisition, reading in a second language
Main teaching interests:
The psychology of language learning; approaches, methods and techniques in language teaching, classroom research, the education of language teachers.
International experience:
Full time teaching experience in India and Iran; extensive experience of in-service teacher education and staff development, most recently in South Korea, Austria, Greece, China, and Nepal
Selected recent publications:
2005 Beaumont, M 'Methodological innovation, cultures of learning and teacher development', in Hall, G and Mackenzie, C (eds) Development for Empowerment; Empowerment for Development, The Global Issues SIG and Teacher Development SIG 2005 Brighton Event Papers, Canterbury: IATEFL. ISSN 1026-4361
2004 Beaumont, M & K-S Chang 'Culture, collaboration and development: challenging traditional versus innovative polarities in teaching and teacher education' Proceedings of the International Conference of the Korean Association of Teachers of English, Seoul : South Korea
2000 Beaumont , M & T O'Brien (eds) Collaborative Research in Second Language Education, Stoke-on-Trent : Trentham Books
1997 Abbott, G & M Beaumont (eds) The Development of ELT: the Dunford Seminars 1978-1993, Hemel Hempstead : Prentice Hall Europe in association with The British Council