Dr Richard Badger
- Position: Senior Lecturer
- Areas of expertise: Teaching second language writing; academic literacy: LLMs and writing, academic listening; corpus linguistics; IELTS and TOEFL: authenticity; input and intake:
- Email: R.G.Badger@education.leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 4644
- Location: 2.01a Hillary Place
- Website: Twitter
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Before I came to Leeds, I spent nine years at the University of Stirling and before that I worked in Further Education in Coventry. I have taught in Malaysia, Nigeria and Algeria.
Research interests
Funded Research Projects
A comparative study of the interaction between teaching methodology and student motivation in IELTS preparation courses in the UK and India’ (Badger, Lamb, Chattopadhyay and Bradford), (2018)
The use of tactics and strategies by Chinese students in the listening component of IELTS (UK1213-IELTS) published as Badger & Yan (2009).
To what extent is communicative language teaching a feature of IELTS classes in China? (UK1405 IELTS).
Selected Recent presentations
July 2024 IVACS Following the science: a study of the Downing street Covid-19 press conferences
August 2024 AILA Using Chat GPT in second language academic literacy
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>
Qualifications
- LLB (Exeter
- PGCE (TESOL Institute of Education, University College London
- MA (Applied Linguistics University of Birmingha,
- PhD (Applied Linguistics University of Birmingham
Professional memberships
- BAAL
- IATEFL
Student education
I am the module lead for EDUC5990 Language development for TESOL
I teach on EDUC3061 Technology-enhanced language learning
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Language Education