Institute of Education London

Professor Richard Andrews

• Qualifications and position:
  • Dean of Faculty
  • Professor in English
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Department of Culture, Communications and Media
  • Faculty Central Administration
• Summary:
  • I focus on research in the fields of language education, argumentation, writing development, multimodality, rhetoric and e-learning. With colleagues I designed the MA in English Education and have supported the MA in World Englishes.
• Teaching:
  • MA in English Education
    Discourse Analysis: multimodal perspectives and methodological issues (Doctoral School)
    New York University summer school
• Research Projects:
  • ESRC seminar series
    New forms of doctorate: the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses in Education and the social sciences (2008-2010)
    
    Training and Development Agency
    Strategy for the development of English as an Additional Language (EAL) for the teaching workforce (with Catherine Wallace, Dina Mehmedbegovic, NALDIC and NRDC) (2008-2010)
    
    Leverhulme Trust
    Social Change and English: A study of three English departments 1945-65 (Leverhulme Trust) (with Peter Medway, John Hardcastle, David Crook)
    
    National Curriculum Standards and Structures in Mexico: Literacy
    Ministry of Education, Mexico (£320,000), 2009-2011 (PI: David Scott)
• Postgraduate Research:
  • Research students:
    • Anna-Maria Andreou: Input- and output-based instruction in the teaching and learning of English reflexive pronouns
    • Frances Bodger: An exploration of children's changing modes of organisation and representation when writing
    • June Parnell-Parmley: Dynamics of e-learning
    • Ling Xue: ICT training for EFL tutors in England and China
    • Evanthia Tsaliki: Intercultural education in Greek primary schools
    • Sun-young Choi: The perceived influence of ICTs and hybrid instructional models/blended learning on English learning as a foreign language in Korean higher education
    • Hazel Chiu: Task-based grammar teaching in Hong Kong
    • Reyhan Luttman: Turkish supplementary schooling in London and Melbourne
    • Ching Ching Lai: Past tense use in English in Hong Kong
    • Ho-Won Kang: The effect of key words captions on Korean EFL learners' listening comprehension
    • Fang-Yin Yeh: A comparative study of EIL instructional material development
    
• Professional Activities:
  • English Board (DfES), 2006-2009
    English Subject Centre Board, 2009-
    Editorial and Commissioning Advisory Board, Teacher Training Resource Bank (TTRB), 2006-
    
    I am on the editorial boards of:
    • London Review of Education
    • Argumentation (US/The Netherlands)
    • Learning, Media & Technology (UK)
    • Informal Logic (Canada)
    • English in Australia
    • Educational Research Review
    • Changing English
    • International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning (China)
    
    I am one of the series editors for the Cambridge School Shakespeare; and co-edit the forthcoming International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching with Dominic Wyse and Jim Hoffman.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • 'How do we bring pleasure and independence to the development of writing?', United
    Kingdom Literacy Association, British Library, March 2010
    'La relación entre la investigación y la enseňanza en la education superior' ['The relationship between research and teaching in higher education'], Innova-CESAL
    2nd international conference, Universidade Téchnica de Lisboa, March 2010
    'The relationship between research and teaching in higher education' at Beijing Normal University;
    Southwest University, Chongqing; and Chongqing Normal University, March 2010
    'Mandarin and English as world languages: a changing picture' at Capital Normal University,
    Beijing; British Council, Chongqing; Sichuan International Studies University; and Chongqing
    University, March 2010
    'Implied multimodality: how does a poem suggest other modes?', Multimodality and Learning
    conference, Institute of Education, London, July 2010
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • China: I taught English in Hong Kong in the 1980s
    USA: I am visiting professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and have taught on the English Education programme there; I also run the annual summer school for NYU students in London and Oxford. I was visiting research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007-09; and at the University of Western Sydney in September 2010.
• Languages Spoken:
  • French, Italian, Spanish at basic level
• Languages Written:
  • French, Italian, Spanish at basic level