Timothy Chapman
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Centre for Academic Language and Literacies
timothy.chapman (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim’s EAP practice focuses on embedding academic literacies within disciplinary fields.
Tim teaches across CALL’s provision, on both its credit-bearing programmes and its suite of in-sessional courses, supporting students during their studies. He is the co-author of a book focusing on the successful embedding of in-sessional teaching within curriculums, A Guide to In-sessional English for Academic Purposes: Paradigms and Practices (Routledge, 2023). He is CALL’s Chair of Learning and Teaching and has responsibility for exams and assessments within the Centre. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Academic qualifications
- MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL (University of Leicester) 2007
- Cambridge Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA) 2003
- BA English (University of Leicester) 1995
Research interests
Tim’s interests lie within the potential for disciplinary specificity within English for Academic Purposes and the delivery of embedded EAP provision. He is also interested in the predictive validity of language assessment and EAP lecturers’ scholarship and career trajectories.