Education

• PhD Applied Linguistics – Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) (2014)
• MA Teaching English as a Second /Foreign Language – University of Birmingham (UK) (2004)
• BSc (Honours) – Psychology – The University of Toronto (Canada) (1989)

Teaching & Research Fields

• Teaching and Pedagogy
• Task-based learning and teaching
• Feedback and Interactive learning
• Performance Assessment
• Classroom discourse
• Conceptual metaphor & figurative language