Chris coordinates English Language support around the University, as well as English Language Testing both in Preston and at overseas partner institutions. He teaches on MA modules in language learning technology and corpus linguistics, provides specific English language support for Engineering and Fire Safety and also supervises postgraduate projects on language learning technology and language learner motivation. In his research role, his thesis is focusing on massive multiplayer online games as language learning environments.
Chris qualified to teach English as a Foreign Language at nineteen years old and has been teaching ever since, to students of all ages and levels, with a variety of needs, whether General, Academic English or English for more specialist subjects, such as Engineering, Fire Safety, Business and the Shipping Industry. His career has taken him to the UK, Japan, South Korea and Sudan. Chris has worked with researchers from the Open University and the University of Edinburgh to organise a symposium at the International Association of Applied Linguistics conference in 2021. He is Co-Chair of the EuroCALL Extended Reality and Gamified Language Learning Special Interest Group, and has presented at the BAAL 2018 and EuroCALL 2019 Conferences.
