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Tim Kelly
was Director of Production of the Warwick LEAP during its initial development period until his resignation in October 2009. He was responsible for management of the project and content development, in particular video content. At Warwick, Tim taught on the MA in ELT (with a Specialism in Multimedia) in the Centre for Applied Linguistics and was Director of Production of the ease
series of CD-ROMs. He has worked in Greece, at Doshisha University in Japan, at St Andrew's University in Scotland and at Lancaster and Sheffield Universities in England. He was Director of Production on the Warwick / Cambridge / Tsinghua eChina-UK
CUTE 2
project. He was winner of the British Council Innovation in Education Award for his work on the Listening to Lectures
CD-ROM. He has directed a number of short films, including SB, The Work of Art
and the award-winning shorts The Mid-Life Crisis of Oscar Redman and The Hole
. Recent publications include Kelly, T. (2009). 'The LEAP'. CALL Review Spring 2009.
Dr Fei-yu Chuang
co-directed the LEAP project, with particular responsibility for material design and programming. She specialises in web-based materials development and has developed GrammarTalk
, online grammar practice materials for Warwick international students. Additionally, she has contributed to the Academic English Zone
. She holds an MSc in Computer Science as well as a Warwick PhD in Applied Linguistics - her thesis involved a corpus-based study of grammatical errors produced by Chinese students of English for Academic Purposes. In 2004 she won a TESOL International Research Fund award for her research in connection with computer-based English language learning. Recent publications include Chuang, F-Y. & H. Nesi (2008). GrammarTalk: international students' responses to an online grammar resource". In Martin Edwardes (ed.) Proceedings of the BAAL Annual Conference: Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics.
Rod Revell acted as materials writer for the LEAP. He ws Head of the English Language Teaching Unit within the Centre for Applied Linguistics until his resignation in 2009. The Unit provides pre-and in-sessional English for Academic Purposes courses for non-native speaker students within the University. He also taught Organisation and Administration, Educational Management and English for Specific Purposes on postgraduate programmes within the Centre. Previously, he was principally involved in English for Professional Purposes in both the private and the public sectors and has co-authored six textbooks for Cambridge and Oxford University Presses. He has lived and worked in France, Sweden, Pakistan, Tunisia, the Philippines and Hong Kong in addition to the UK.
Dr Gerard Sharpling
contributed exercises and activities to the Warwick LEAP. He has over twenty years of experience in English language teaching, within language schools, Colleges of Further Education and Higher Education institutions. He co-authored the third volume of the EASE CD-ROM series (Seminar Skills: Discussions), and has developed on-line language learning resources for the Centre. He is particularly interested in language testing and creative approaches to teaching academic writing skills, including the use of literature and corpora.
Tilly Harrison
contributed exercises and activities to the Warwick LEAP. She teaches Computer and Multimedia-assisted language learning as well as linguistics, language skills and English for Academic Purposes. Her international experience has involved teaching English in France, Spain, Sierra Leone and Japan and she has extensive lecturing and supervisory experience in linguistics and computer-assisted language learning. Her research interests are the use of corpus linguistics in EAP and language teaching, and the writing of second language learners. She is currently treasurer of the Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and member of the BAAL Executive committee. She is also a long-standing member and supporter of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).