DUNCAN HUNTER

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Current Post: University ofWarwick Postgraduate Research Fellow

Age:40 (D.o.B. 21.12.66)

Nationality:British

CAREER HISTORY

Oct 2005 topresent University of Warwick

Position:Postgraduate Research Fellow

-My PhD project, The ELT Journal: Years of Change, utilises a computer-based, corpus approach to explore aspects of our professional discourse during a key period in its history

-Work duties include assisting my supervisor, Dr Richard Smith, with the maintenance of the Warwick ELT Archive, enhancement of our web-site, and managing the Archive’s growing database

Aug- Sep 2006 University of Warwick

Position:Pre-sessional English Course Tutor

-Co-tutored a University of Warwick pre-sessional English group

Sep 2002 to Oct 2005Hammersmith and WestLondonCollege

Position: IT Trainer and ESOL Teacher

-Tutor, with full pastoral responsibility, for several full-time ESOL and EFL groups

-IT Tutor for (16-19 year old)ESOL groups, focusing on web design and internet communication technologies

-Language Support tutor for mainstream ICT and Business groups

Aug 1999 to Sep 2002Business Education

Position: EFL Teacher/ Study Centres Co-ordinator

-EFL teacher for general and business English groups

-Co-ordinating the school’s four London study centres. Supported students’ autonomous learning by providing customised self-access materials

-Maintaining library and ICT resources for the sites

May 1991 to June 1993Polytechnic of Silesia, Gliwice, Poland

Position: Lecturer in English Language

- Lecturing engineering students in English Language

- Received Workers Award for excellence

1989 to 1991NishitoyamaJunior High School, Tokyo

Position:Assistant English tutor

- Assisted teachers in the Japanese state education system

EDUCATION

Sep 96 - Nov 98University of North London (PT Evening)

MSc Software Engineering

- Introduction to computing (74%)

- C++ preliminary module (72%)

- Systems analysis and database technologies (including SQL) (75%)

- Discrete mathematics (89%)

- Software engineering in Java (85%)

- C++/Java advanced module (86%)

- Databases (68%)

- Project: OO programming in Java

1991University of Edinburgh

RSA Diploma: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

1985-87University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

BA in History

Research Interests

  • Corpus methodology: combining machine-based and intuitive approaches to textual and discourse analysis
  • ELT Professional history, with particular focus on the early ‘communicative’ period

Ongoing Development and Training

  • Currently working towards Part Two of the Post Graduate Award (PGA) for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Warwick’s Centre for Academicand Professional Development(CAPD) (Part One attained in January this year)
  • Will submit a full paper, co-written with Dr Richard Smith, at the Keyness in Text conference at the University of Siena, on 29th June 2007
  • Will submit an article/biographical tribute to appear in the January 2008 (200th) issue of IATEFL Voices.The piece will summarise aspects of the career of Bill Lee, former editor of the ELT Journal and chair of IATEFL
  • Presented at the IATEFL Corpus SIG in April 2006
  • Planning further articles, co-authored with Dr Richard Smith, as possible submissions to the ELT Journal
  • Member of CELTE’s DELTIC informal research circle; a groupof researchers examining the ELT Journalas professional discourse

Future Plans/Ambitions

  • To submit my PhD thesis on or around the planned submission date (October 2008)
  • To complete the University’s PGA training scheme so as to maximise the transferability of my considerable commercial and FE training experience
  • To develop my technical and methodological, cross-disciplinary competence in corpus technology and techniques
  • To continue to support corpus development and research activity within CELTE, particularly by providing assistance to students wishing to incorporate a corpus component in their MA or postgraduate projects

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