Dr Josie Leonard

Josie is the Course Leader for our MA TESOL course and teaches on our MA TESOL & Applied Linguistics and BA TESOL courses. She has worked here since 2012 as part of the TESOL team and enjoys teaching and training teachers from different contexts. She completed her Doctorate in Education at the University of Exeter in 2021, and her research focuses mainly on language teacher identity formation and teacher development. She supervises doctoral students whose thesis are in related subject areas.

Josie has previously worked as a teacher and trainer in Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Cyprus and Morocco. She has taught on a wide range of courses including General and Academic English, Business English and English for Specific Purposes.

She enjoys working with students from different cultural backgrounds. She has also worked as a teacher trainer for Trinity Cert TESOL and the Cambridge ICELT programme, and as an IELTS examiner for British Council in Cyprus. Josie has presented at various TESOL conferences in the UK including IATEFL 2019 and 2021 as well as being an active contributor to research events at UCLan

Josie is interested in teacher identity in relation to teacher professional development, socio-materialism and critical pedagogy Publications: July 2015 ‘Facing the Mirror: Dilemmas and Issues facing International Students on a TESOL programme in British University Environment’ The International Journal of Bilingual and Multilingual Teachers of English, 3:1, 1-12 April 2018 Beyond (non) native-speakerism: Being or becoming a (non) native speaker teacher of English Applied Linguistics Review

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Full list of publications and articles on CLoK

IATEFL 2021 (Re)Shaping Teacher Selves: An exploration of teacher identity and development
IATEFL 2019 Liverpool Presentation
Taking a new look at classroom observation for pre-service teachers
July 2017: International Academic Forum Conference of Language Learning and BAAL Learning and Teaching Conference UCLan / IAFOR Brighton 2017
Beyond (non) native-speakerism: Being or becoming a (non) native speaker teacher of English
March 2017: Graduate School of Education Conference, University of Exeter
Speaker in Symposium: Bi-/Multilingualism in Education: Contexts, Opportunities and Challenges
March 2016, Graduate School of Education Conference, University of Exeter, UK
Poster presentation: ‘Professional Development and the (Re) Shaping of teacher identities’.
July 2015 International Academic Forum Conference for Language Learning, Brighton, UK
Paper presented: ‘Facing the Mirror: Dilemmas and Issues facing International Students on a TESOL programme in British University Environment’

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