Dr Tania Horák

Tania maintains an active involvement in teacher development, currently working on the undergraduate and postgraduate TESOL programmes at UCLan. She also supervises PhD students working in the field of teacher development and language assessment. Her own PhD was in the field of washback. 

As Course Leader for MA TESOL with Applied Linguistics, Tania teaches modules in Language Analysis and Testing & Assessment as well as teaching on our other postgraduate TESOL programme: MA TESOL. She is also a Teaching Practice tutor at undergraduate level, for the BA TESOL programme. Tania is also a member of the English language exam team, producing proficiency exams for our students requiring proof of their level of ability.

Before joining UCLan, Tania taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Czech Republic for four years at the University of West Bohemia, where she first became involved in teacher development. At various other points she also taught for short periods in Spain, Germany and Hong Kong. After completing an MA, she worked in Bangladesh for four years. In Bangladesh, after teaching at the British Council, she went on to work as a teacher trainer on a DFID-funded project which aimed to improve secondary level English teaching in the state sector (the ELTIP project). Subsequently, she worked in Lithuania as the EFL and Education Projects Manager for the British Council, before returning to the UK to begin her PhD studies while also working as a Research Associate on the longitudinal TOEFL IBT Impact Study with Dr, Dianne Wall at Lancaster University. She also worked on other short-term research projects with Prof. Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, including a Trinity Spoken Corpus project, a Metalinguistic Knowledge Project and an Aviation English Project.