Dr Richard Badger

Dr Richard Badger

Profile

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

 

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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

Current postgraduate researchers

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