- Associate Professor of English Language Education
- Deputy Dean (Research)
Degrees
- PhD (Language Teaching materials), Lancaster University, UK, 1992
- MA in Linguistics for English Language Teaching, Lancaster University, UK, 1982
- PGCE (ESOL), West Midlands College (CNAA), UK, 1979
- BA (Hons), Staffordshire University (CNAA), UK, 1976
Teaching areas in SHBIE
- Language and Teaching
- Professional Practice and Professional Practice Seminars
- English language education
- Language teaching materials design
- Research and Research Exercise supervision
Interests, expertise and current research areas
Dr Littlejohn has expertise and research interests in a wide range of areas related to language education. This includes language education generally, materials development (he is author of over 300 language teaching textbooks, mainly published by Cambridge University Press), materials analysis, syllabus and curriculum design for language education, the socio-cultural-historical location of language education practices, and learner and teacher perspectives.
He is currently engaged in a funded research project (with Dr Sarah Boye and Dr Ishamina Athirah Gardiner) which investigates how secondary school learners and teachers view the nature of language teaching tasks and the language teaching classroom. This research uses an innovative research methodology from Personal Construct Theory and Repertory Grids.
Interested in supervising students in the following areas
- Any aspect of language education, particularly in school-based contexts
- Materials development, analysis and evaluation
- Content-rich language teaching and education-based approaches
- Learner perspectives on language learning
- Teacher perspectives
Sample publications and other links
Dr Littlejohn’s personal website contains many articles, papers and an A-Z of language teaching for language teaching professionals, teachers and researchers to consult and download freely. Please visit www.AndrewLittlejohn.net
Further details
Dr Littlejohn is currently Associate Professor of English Language Education and Deputy Dean (Research) in UBD. Prior to this he taught at universities and language institutes in Oman, the UK (Institute of Education UCL in London, and Lancaster University), Mexico, Bahrain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and elsewhere.
He is three times a winner of English-Speaking Union awards, presented at Buckingham Palace, for his writings in ELT methodology. He has published articles and papers in numerous journals and edited collections, and is the author of many books (mainly published by Cambridge University Press) for a wide range of language teaching contexts and purposes. For adult learners, these include Company to Company, Writing 1, Writing 2, Writing 3, and Writing 4 (all CUP) and the co-authored course Eurolingua (Clubschools, Switzerland and Cornelsen, Germany). For school-aged learners, Dr Littlejohn is co-author of the multi-level multi-component courses Cambridge English for Schools (CUP) and Cambridge English Worldwide (CUP), for learners aged 11-16, and Primary Colours (CUP), for learners aged 5-11, and consultant and co-author of the First Choice topic-based language development materials for primary schools (Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich, Switzerland). He was also consultant for a large scale BBC Worldwide project for materials for children aged 6-12.
Dr Littlejohn is co-editor (with Professor Michael Breen) of the landmark collection Classroom decision-making: negotiation and process syllabuses in practice (CUP, 2000), which provides practical accounts of shared, negotiated decision-making with learners in primary, secondary and tertiary education, and several other edited collections (see website).
He is or has been an editorial advisor to a number of journals, including Applied Linguistics (OUP), Language and Education (Routledge), Language Teaching (CUP), Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Routledge) and the electronic journal TESL-EJ. He has been an invited plenary or keynote speaker in numerous international conferences, including conferences in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, Vietnam, and others.