Carole Sedgwick

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3364 Email Address: C.Sedgwick@roehampton.ac.uk

ELT experience

I have had a range of experience in the ELT sector at home and abroad, including teaching at private and state schools in Portugal, Italy and London, Bologna university, community education and Industrial Language Training. I have also worked as Borough Language Co-ordinator in South Kensington and delivered language awareness training to health staff, nursery staff and local authority employees in Kensington and Merton.
At Roehampton I developed and co-ordinated the English for Academic Purposes programme, the BA/BSc Applied English Studies degree and the BA TESOL.
For me the BA TESOL is a vitally important development in order to professionalise language teaching. My diverse experience in ELT has taught me that there is an urgent need for flexible, creative teachers who have a sound base in English language and language teaching and who can respond to the demands of any teaching context.

Teaching interests

Language testing
Individual differences and language learning
Communication and context
Qualitative research

Current research interests

I am interested in the assessment of writing and language assessment issues associated with the Bologna Process, particularly in relation to the aim to establish common standards and a pan-European system of quality assurance. I am currently engaged in a PhD research project to compare literacy practices on the same academic programme in two different linguistic and cultural contexts in Europe.

Publications

Research Projects Undertaken

A survey of the assessment of written English on English language majors in European universities.
Start date: Feb 2003
Finish date: August 2003

PhD project to compare literacy practices on the same academic programme in two different linguistic and cultural contexts in Europe.

Qualification Details

MA Applied Linguistics (language testing) University of Reading pass with distinction (1995).
PhD at Lancaster University in progress
RSA Cert (equivalent to the current Dip) TEFLA (1979)
RSA Dip TESL (1984)
RSA Dip Training the Trainers (1991)
RSA NCVQ External examiner’s award (1995)

Examining Experience

External Examiner for the RSA Profile Certificate
Cambridge ESOL examiner
External Examiner BA EFL Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
External examiner IAMIS programme Nottingham Trent University

Consultancies Undertaken

Validation panels for:

• English for Academic Purposes programme King Alfred College, Winchester

• BATFL Review Middlesex University

• BA EFL Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

• IAMIS programme (Integrated Access Mode of International Study) Nottingham Trent University

• Expert advisor on panel to benchmark language qualifications to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference)for City and Guilds and the British Council

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

English Language & Linguistics
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Sociolinguistics

Other courses taught at Roehampton:

International Foundation Certificate