Dr. Felicity Breet
B Ed (Hons) MA Applied Linguistics PhD
Associate Dean
Location:
Forster Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 3192
Email:
felicity.breet@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
I grew up in Billingham and then Middlesbrough, leaving the area to attend teacher training college and then the University of Cambridge. Following three years of teaching English and Drama in a secondary school in Hertfordshire, VSO posted me to northern Nigeria where I eventually worked for five years.
After my MA at Essex I worked for the British Council at the University of Nanjing in China for two years before taking up a post as UK government funded post as Adviser to the teachers of English in North West Province Cameroon. In 1990 I returned to the north east to begin my PhD at the University of Durham supporting myself with frequent overseas consultancies to Nigeria, Poland, Senegal and South Africa as well as short contracts at the Universities of Durham, Leeds and Teesside. I joined the University of Sunderland in 1995 and since then have been part of the team who developed English for Academic Purposes, Undergraduate and Post Graduate programmes in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, short courses for teachers of English during Summer School and workshops in Cultural Awareness for staff.
Teaching Areas
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - for teachers and would be teachers
Cultural Awareness
Research Interests
Classroom practice within TESOL
Classroom discourse
Culture; content or skills
Selected Publications
2010 Culture; content or skills and the gap between theory and practice in the TESOL classroom (forthcoming)
2005 English for Academic Purposes and English as an Additional Language; sisters or just neighbours in the dictionary, Paper presented at the NALDIC Annual conference University or Warwick
2003 "Plagiarism; Policy to Penalty, what's missing" presented at the University of Sunderland's Academic conference
2000 "You're an ELT trainer, so what", presented at IATEFL Teacher Training conference University of Leeds
Consultancy
2000 and 2002 Oman Visits to teachers, trainers and BA TESOL providers involved in University of Leeds BA TESOL project
1998 and 2000 British Council Nigeria. Trainer Training for Primary/Secondary Teacher Trainers. Follow up to 1996 consultancy visit
1997 Spring and 1997 Autumn DfID consultancy Primary Education Project, The Solomon Islands. Facilitating the rewriting of the Primary National Curriculum for English
