Université Du Québec À Montréal , Masters of Arts, Applied Linguistics

Delian Gaskell

Academic qualifications:

Université du Québec à Montréal, Masters of Arts, Applied Linguistics,

Focus: Computer-aided Language Learning (CALL),

Department of Languages, Montreal, Canada, December 2003.

Concordia University, TESL Certificate (Hons), TESL Centre (Department of

Education), Montreal, Canada; English, December 1999.

University of Oregon, Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology,

Department of Anthropology, Oregon USA, December 1993

Position: Instructor

HKUST contact details:

Room 3382,

telephone: 7852

email: lcdgaskell

Brief paragraph to introduce yourself

I was born into a multi-cultural family and spent the first six years of my life in Borneo, Malaysia before moving to Canada. My family background, and the travelling I was exposed to as a child, inspired me to begin my own explorations at a fairly young age. When I was 15 years old, I went by myself to take part in a language exchange program for a year in the French-speaking province of Quebec, after which time I then moved to France to complete my final year of high school and my first year of university. Since then I have explored and lived in a wide variety of countries around the world, and have taught university students from diverse backgrounds in Taiwan, Canada, the United States and Hong Kong.

My objective as a teacher of language is to inspire my students to learn how to learn, both in terms of their language skills, but also to become life-long independent learners once they leave my classroom. I hope to inspire my students with the idea that teachers will not necessarily spoon-feed them with all the knowledge they need to ‘pass the course’. Learning to communicate successfully in another language is a challenging task. I am available to facilitate my students’ learning process, not give them the false sense that there are always ‘right ‘and ‘wrong’ ways to go about doing so. This is particularly the case in learning how to communicate effectively.

Professional and academic interests

I primarily teach and coordinate undergraduate courses in Business Communications and

writing. My professional interests include blended learning, computer-aided language

learning, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. I am also involved in the creation of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) through EdEx called ‘English for Doing Business in Asia’ which will be available to students around the world from September 2014.

Courses taught: LABU 2050 (coordinator), LABU 2051 (co-coordinator), LABU 2052 (co-coordinator), LANG 1003

Representative publications:

Independent learning in need or crisis? Independent learning under the new

four year curriculum, (Chan, V., Gaskell, D.D., Tan, M.A. & Chao, L. Y.)

Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on e-Learning: 117-123.

Can learners use concordance feedback for writing errors? System, 32(3): 301-19. (#3 on Hottest 25 articles Google Scholar, Jul-Sep 2004;

May 2013 over 100 Google citations)