Dr Janet Enever

Qualifications

EdD (University of Bristol)
MA English Language (Institute of Education, London University)
Diploma in TEFL- RSA/UCLES
BEd Primary (University of Brighton)

Role

Senior lecturer; course leader MA Primary ELT: Policy & Practice; member of Institute for the Study of European Transformations; Director: Early language learning in Europe research project (ELLiE) - a European Commission-funded Project under the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013.

Janet spent some years as a UK primary class teacher whilst developing her interest in language and culture. Having taken up an ESRC scholarship award to complete an MA in English language, she then moved to work in Central Europe as an EFL specialist. Two years were spent in Poland (Link Language school, Gliwice; Jagiellonian University Teacher Training Dept, Krakow) followed by a further four years in Hungary (national primary EFL advisor, British Council/Hungarian Ministry of Education).

After returning to the UK she completed her doctorate in the field of Primary ELT Policy studies and came to London Met as a senior lecturer in TESOL in the same year. She has undertaken young learner consultancies in Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia, Italy, China and Vietnam. Her research interests include the impact of globalisation on English language teaching, the politics of primary foreign language policy and primary EFL/FL teaching.

In January 2008 she jointly organised a global conference in Bangalore, India (IATEFL YLSIG conference: The Way Forward: learning from international experience of TEYL) focusing on trends in primary EFL policy making. In December 2007 she was awarded a three-year European Commission research grant to lead an international team investigating the recent implementation of early foreign language learning in schools in Europe (ELLiE). She currently supervises one PhD student researching in the field of primary ELT in Greece.

Teaching

Modules recently and currently taught:

MA TESOL:

Understanding the Language Classroom: an introduction to the psychology of language learning
Teaching English to young learners
Patterns in global sociolinguistics

MA International ELT/Applied Language Studies:

Managing Change in ELT: a global perspective
Patterns in global sociolinguistics

MA Primary ELT policy and practice:

Current issues in primary ELT
Research methods

PhD supervisor. Christina Giannikas, researching approaches to teaching English to young learners in Greece.

External examining

University of Brighton, MA English Language Teaching Studies; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2005-2009).
External examiner for University of York, MA Teaching English to Young Learners (2005-2008).
PhD external examiner, Leeds University, 2008.

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