Professor David Block

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD, MA, RSA Cert, BA
    • Professor of Languages in Education
    • Departmental Research Tutor
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Summary:
    • My interests include: globalisation and its social, sociolinguistic and educational consequences; neoliberalism and applied linguistics; the transnational cultural and language practices of migrants in London and beyond; the interrelationship between language learning, language use and identity; and the interrelationships between multimodal resources and identity.
  • Teaching:
    • MA BLUES & MA TESOL:
      Sociolinguistics and Language in Society
      Multilingual & Multicultural London
      Culture, Language & Identity
      Issues & Options in Language Teacher Development
      Second Language Learning Experience
  • Research Projects:
    • Two proposals in preparation.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Hadeel Alkhateeb (MPhil) The social context of linguistic fossilization among adult learners of English in a Qatar university
      Taghreed Al-Saraj (PhD) Affective factors related to achievement among female EFL students in Saudi Arabia
      Charles Denroche (MPhil) Metonymy, metaphor, translation and language learning
      Yuko Ikuta (MPhil/PhD) Core identity and social function of English as a Lingua Franca (20%, with Hugh Starkey)
      Victoria Kalogerou (PhD) European language policies: Implementation in higher education in Cyprus
      Masuko Miyahara (MPhil/PhD) The social construction of identity at higher education in Japan: Towards a framework for identity construction in an EFL context
      Laura Park (MPhil) Examining teacher identities of non-native speaker English Teachers (NNSETs) enrolled in a TESOL program in South Korea: Addressing ambivalence and creating a community of full, legitimate participants
      Danyal Tum (MPhil) Non-native foreign language teachers and student teachers' feelings of foreign language teaching anxiety
      Chun-Ying Wang (MPhil) Cognitive metaphor in the teaching of mandarin to English speakers.
  • Professional Activities:
    • Membership in professional organisations: TESOL (1987-present); BAAL (AILA, AAAL) (1995-present); Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (2007-present)

      Journal editorial board membership: Language Teaching Research (2000-present); Applied Linguistics (2005-present); International Multilingual Research Journal (2007-present); Language Learning Journal (2007-present); Journal of Identity, Language and Education (2007-present); Compass: Language and Linguistics (2009-present)

      Associate Editor, Bloomsbury Review of Applied Linguistics and Communication.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 09/07/10.; King's College, London; BAAL Language Learning & Teaching SIG, 6th annual conference: 'Cognitive-interactional and socio-cultural perspectives on L2 learning, teaching, and assessment: Compatible, complementary, or incommensurable?'; Plenary address: 'Social class and additional language learning: establishing connections'.
      19/06/10; PLIDAM, Paris; International Conference: 'Plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in a globalised world : which pedagogy?'; Keynote address: 'Classed voices in the multilingual city'.
      14/06/10; Cambridge University; Invited talk: 'Identity problems'.
      26/02/10; Birkbeck College, London; Colloquium: 'Learning Beyond the Classroom'; Keynote address: 'Where is 'social class' in ethnolinguistic identity research? '.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Spain (language issues, sociology, history)
      UK (language issues, sociology, history)
      EU in general (language issues, sociology, history)
      US & Canada (language issues, sociology, history)
      Japan (language issues)
      South Korea (language issues)
      China (language issues)
  • Languages Spoken:
    • English (advanced)
      Catalan (advanced)
      Spanish (advanced)
      French (basic/intermediate)
  • Languages Written:
    • English (advanced)
      Catalan (advanced)
      Spanish (advanced)
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 620a
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Block, D. (2010) 'Unpicking agency in sociolinguistic research with migrants' In M. Martin-Jones and S. Gardner (eds), Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography. London: Routledge.
  • Block, D. (2010) 'Globalisation and language teaching' In N. Coupland (ed.), Handbook of Language and Globalisation. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Block, D. (2010) 'Speaking Romance-esque' In D. Nunan and J. Choi (eds), Language and Culture: Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Block, D. (2010) 'Engaging with human sociality: Thoughts on communication and embodiment', Engaging with human sociality: Thoughts on communication and embodiment. Applied Linguistics Review 1 (1), 45-56.
  • Block, D. (2010) 'Problems portraying migrants in Applied Linguistics research', Language Teaching 43 (1), 1-14.
  • Block, D. (2009) 'Researching language and identity' In B. Paltridge & A. Phakiti (eds), Continuum Companion to Second Language Research Methods. London: Continuum.
  • Block, D. (2006) 'Identity in applied linguistics: where are we?' In T. Omoniyi and G. White (eds), The Sociolinguistics of Identity. London: Continuum.