Teaching
You'll find a select list of some of the courses I've taught and/or designed below, including links to sample seminar slides. For a full list, feel free to download my CV.
Introduction to Discourse Analysis
June 2022 (Teaching Fellow, King's College London/Queen Mary University of London)
Designed and ran a five-week course, Introduction to Discourse Analysis, a new module for PhD students at Queen Mary and King’s College London which I designed as part of the LISS-DTP’s advanced research methods training offering. The first four weeks focused on providing students with practical tools to work with a variety of broadly discourse analytic methods (e.g. critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis). Week five then consisted of individual "clinics" designed to solve individual issues or discuss researchers' projects in-depth.
Language in the U.K.
January 2022 – June 2022 (Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University of London)
As course convenor for this module, I led one two-hour seminar per week (of roughly 40 1st year undergraduate students) for a duration of eleven weeks, focusing on different language varieties in the U.K. and sociolinguistic methods, as well as marking student assignments (2 x written assignments).
Language and Ethnicity
January 2022 – June 2022 (Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University of London)
As course convenor for this module, I led one two-hour seminar per week (of roughly 40 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students) for a duration of eleven weeks, focusing on theoretical issues in and the historical development of the sociolinguistic approaches to language and ethnicity, as well as marking student assignments (3 x written assignments).
Language and Politics
February - March 2021 (Course Convenor, Queen Mary University of London)
This course familiarised BA and MA-level students with different approaches to analysing language and politics. The course was funded by the LISS-DTP's short course scheme, whereby PhD students submitted funding proposals to design and run courses to complement existing modules. Consisting of five sessions, each one-hour session covered a different methodological approach to the study of language of politics in order to provide students with a variety of routes to analyse political language, as well as “toolkits” to carry out this analysis. Designing this course alongside another QMUL PhD student (Matthew Hunt), I led seminars on critical discourse analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis.
Social Media and Multimodal Literacy
February - April 2021 (Course Convenor, Queen Mary University of London)
This course introduced BA and MA-level students to the non-linguistic modes of communication in social media, with a focus on applying social semiotics to the examination of multimodal artefacts in social media. The course was funded by the LISS-DTP's short course scheme, whereby PhD students submitted funding proposals to design and run courses to complement existing modules. It consisted of five one-hour sessions designed entirely by three PhD students (Adrian Yip, Songyan Du and myself), of which I convened a session on social semiotic approaches to the analysis of memes.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (LIN101)
January - June 2020 (Teaching Associate, Queen Mary University of London)
Led two one-hour seminars (two groups, each of roughly 20 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students) per week for a duration of twelve weeks, focusing on theoretical issues in the field of child language acquisition, as well as marking student assignment (1 x mid-term test, 2 x written assignments).
FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE (LIN4208)
September – December 2018 (Teaching Associate, Queen Mary University of London)
Led two two-hour seminars (two groups, each of roughly 20 1st year undergraduate students) per week for twelve weeks. This course introduced students to linguistics, covering phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. Included marking two sets of student assignments and two mid/end-of-term exams.