1.
Comm&Learn international workshop, (ETSISI, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Tools, tasks, and teachers in
language education research
Shona Whyte
Université Côte d’Azur
France
4 October 2018,

2.
Shona Whyte
• Professor of English, Université
Nice-Sophia Antipolis (Université
Côte d’Azur)
• Scottish-born, US educated,
professional experience in French
higher education
• research in CALL teacher
education and ESP didactics
• teacher educator: pre- and in-
service primary & secondary EFL
• new English Medium Instruction
programme at Nice University

3.
English for specific purposes
• SLA and pedagogy
• discourse domain hypothesis
(Whyte 1994, 1995)
• task-based language teaching in
specific purpose contexts
(Whyte 2013)
• ESP teaching and learning research
• Sarré & Whyte 2016, Whyte 2016
• research groups
• DidASP collaboration &
publication
• ESSE Galway 2016, Brno 2018
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

4.
Language education
• interlanguage pragmatics
(politeness in secondary school
EFL: Siddiqa 2018)
• open educational practices
• bridging gaps (Whyte 2014)
• from solitary thinkers to
social actors (Whyte 2016)
• sheltered contexts or ‘in the
wild’ (in preparation)
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

5.
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
• integration of classroom
technologies in communicative
and task-based approaches to
language teaching
• young learners (Cutrim
Schmid & Whyte)
• open education repositories:
www.itilt2.eu
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

6.
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

7.
Teacher education
• teacher integration of
technologies
• workshops & webinars
• reports and handbooks
• research-practice interface
(shonawhyte.wordpress.com)
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

8.
Projects
• integration of technology in
language teaching (ITILT LLP
2011-13; ITILT 2 Erasmus+
2014-17)
• open practices in higher
education SHOUT4HE
Erasmus+ 2018-2021
• adviser CATAPULT (Erasmus+
Sorbonne University 2018)
shonawhyte.wordpress.com

9.
Contributions
• professional development:
• courses, workshops, webinars
• handbooks, manuals, reports
• communities of practice
• open educational resources
• networks and dissemination; research publication

10.
Tools, tasks, and teachers in language education research
• Shona Whyte
• efl.unice.fr
• shonawhyte.wordpress.com
• @whyshona
• whyte@unice.fr
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