Professor Mike Baynham
Professor of TESOL
Tel: +44 (0)113 3434481
Room: HP 2.11
Email: M.Baynham@education.leeds.ac.uk
TESOL, Adult ESOL and literacy; applied linguistics, academic literacies, narrative, classroom discourse.
Member of Centre for Language Education Research.
Interests
I am Professor of TESOL in the School of Education. My professional background is in Adult ESL and Literacy. Before I came to Leeds, I spent ten years in Sydney at the University of Technology, Sydney where I was Director of the Centre for Language and Literacy and before that I worked in London in Adult and Higher Education. My academic background is in sociolinguistics, but I have always been involved in and committed to Applied Linguistics.
Current Professional Activities
I was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) for the period 2001-2003.From 1996 to 2003 I co-convened with Mastin Prinsloo of the University of Cape Town of the International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA) Scientific Commission on Literacy.
Research Interests
My research interests include oral narrative (my Phd [Reading 1988] was entitled “Narrative and Narrativity in the English of a First Generation Migrant Community). From narrative I developed an interest in speech representation in both narrative and non narrative contexts. Other areas of interest are socially situated perspectives on literacy, in particular academic literacies, classroom discourse, language and maths.Selected Publications
PAPERS
Baynham, M. (2006). "Agency and contingency in the language learning of refugees and asylum seekers". Linguistics and Education, 17(1), 24-39. (PDF File, 204K).
Baynham, M. (2004). "Narrative in Time and Space: beyond 'backdrop' accounts of narrative orientation". Narrative Inquiry, 13/2, 347-366.
Luke, A. and Baynham, M. (eds.) (2004). "Theme issue: Ethnographies of Literacy". Language and Education, 18/4, n/a.
Baynham, M. (2001). "Reading the Weather: ruling passions, numeracy and reading practices on an Australian farm". Journal of Reading Research, 24/3, 307-312.
Baynham, M. and Prinsloo, M. (2001). "New Directions in Literacy Research". Language and Education, 3&4, 92-104.
Baynham, M. and Prinsloo, M. (eds.) (2001). "Double theme issue: New Directions in Literacy Research: policy, pedagogy, practice". Language and Education, 3&4, n/a.
Baynham, M. (2000). "Narrative as Evidence in Literacy Research". Linguistics in Education, 11/2, 99-117.
Baynham, M. (1999). "Double-voicing and the Scholarly "I": the incorporation of the words of others in academic discourse". TEXT, 19/4, 485-504.
BOOKS
Prinsloo, M. & M. Baynham (eds.) (2008). "Literacies, Global and Local". Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Read Abstract.
Baynham, M., De Fina, A (2005). "Dislocations/Relocations: Narratives of Displacement". St Jerome.
Baynham, Mike [Translated Maria Arapopoulou] (2002). "Πρακτικές Γραμματισμού [Literacy Practices]". Athens: Metaixmio Editions.
Baynham, M. (1995). "Literacy Practices". London: Longman.
Extended list of publications.
This page last updated by Mike Baynham on 28th July 2009