Dr Richard G Badger

Lecturer in Education

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Tel: +44 (0)113 3434644
Fax: +44 (0)113 3434541

Room: HP 2.01

Email: r.g.badger@education.leeds.ac.uk

TESOL, academic literacy, language description and ELT; genre; teaching English, authenticity; argument; legal English.

Member of Centre for Language Education Research.

Interests

I am the co-ordinator for the MA Programmes in TESOL in the School of Education. Before I came to Leeds, I spent nine years at the University of Stirling and before that I worked in Further Education in Coventry. I have taught in the state sector in Malaysia and Nigeria and I have also worked in Algeria.

Research Interests

My research interests are

  • academic literacy, and in particular how students learn from lectures,
  • the use of peer feedback in writing,
  • the notion of authenticity in ELT,
  • what ESP teachers deal with unfamiliar subject knowledge,
  • Argument and conflict in academic discourse and in particular Applied Linguistics.
  • Differences between how native and non-native speakers of English deal with the listening paper in IELTS

Supervision

I am currently supervising doctoral students in the following areas

  • factors influencing the adoption of ICT in a Chinese univesity
  • a contextual model of feedback for writing at an Omani college
  • the development of academic literacy by non-native speakers of English on an English medium BA degree
  • the development of academic literacy by non-native speakers of English during their foundation year
  • the extent to which listening classes prepare students for  real life listening
  • the approaches to reading adopted by students of English in Libya

  • how technology can be used to improve English language literacy in a Syrian context

  • the role of blogging in English language development

  • how Chinese students prepare for study in the UK.

Recent presentations

September 2008 BAAL Conference, Swansea, Taking the measure of PowerPoint.

June 2008  IVACS Conference, Limerick, Ireland. Retextualisation  and appropriation: a corpus based approach to learning in lectures

May 2006. BAAL/CUP Seminar, Warwick University. Learning from Multimedia lectures.

September 2005. BAAL Conference. University of Bristol. Argument and identity across academic disciplines: a corpus based approach

September 2005. Language in the Media. University of Leeds. The uses of grammar: how newspapers use the term grammatical.

June 2005. Interrogating third spaces in language teaching, learning and use. University of Leicester. Getting real: theories and practices of authenticity in ELT.

May 2004. IVACS Conference. University of Belfast.. Building barns or fighting foes: a corpus based approach to argumentation in Applied Linguistics.

September 2003 BAAL Conference, University of Leeds. The Agonism and the ecstasy: argument and conflict in applied linguistics.

May 2003 Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies: Seminar: Discourse in the Teaching of Linguistics. University of Edinburgh Investigating English: Language, Culture and Social Identity..

April 2003 BALEAP Conference, University of Southampton Authenticity in academic literacy.

March 2003. Institute of Education University of Stirling.. How lecturers perceive lectures.

 

Selected Publications

PAPERS

MacDonald, Malcolm, Badger, R.G. O'Regan, John (2009). "The Social Cognition of Medical Knowledge: With Special Reference to Childhood Epilepsy.". Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6(3), 176-204.

Wu, HuiDan, and Badger, Richard (2009). "In a strange and uncharted land: ESP teachers' strategies for dealing with unpredicted problems in subject knowledge during class". English for Specific Purposes, 28, 19-32.

Memon, R and Badger R (2007). "Purposeful change? Changing the teaching of reading in a regional university in Pakistan". System, 35(4), 551.

Badger, R.G. (2006). "Investigating agonism in linguistics.". Journal of Pragmatics., 38(9), 1442-1456..

MacDonald, M., Badger, R. G. and Dasli, M (2006). "Authenticity, Culture and Language". Language and Intercultural Communication, 6, 1-12.

Yang, M., Badger, R.G, Yu, Z. (2006). "A comparative study of peer and teacher feedback in a Chinese EFL writing class". Journal of Second Language Writing, 15(3), 179-200.

Sutherland, P., & Badger, R. (2004). "Lecturers' perceptions of lectures". Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28(3),, 277-289.

Badger, R (2003). "Legal and general: towards a genre analysis of newspaper law reports.". English for Specific Purposes, 22(3), 249-263.

Sutherland, P., Badger, R. G., & White, G. (2002). "How New Students Take Notes at Lectures.". Journal for Further and Higher Education, 26(4), 377-388.

Badger, R. G., Sutherland, P., White, G., & Haggis, T. (2001). "Note perfect: an investigation of how students view taking notes in lectures.". System, 29(3), 405-417.

Badger, R. G., & White, G. (2000). "A process genre approach to teaching writing.". ELT Journal, 54(2), 153-160..

CHAPTERS

Badger, R, & Yan, X. (2009). "The use of tactices and strategies by Chinese students in the Listening component of IELTS" in: Thompson, P. (Ed.) IELTS Research Reports Voulme 9. British Councile, IELTS Australisa, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.

Extended list of publications.

This page last updated by Richard Badger on 20th November 2009