Jane Evison

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  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4516
• fax0115 846 6600
• jane.evison@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Jane Evison is a member of the Centre for International Education Research and is a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

Jane joined the School in 2005. Before this she taught Discourse Analysis in the School of English Studies here at Nottingham where she also conducted her doctoral research into interaction in Higher Education talk using corpus linguistic and fine-grained analysis.

Jane is the programme leader of the MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (web-based). She teaches on both the face-to-face and web-based MA TESOL programmes and also has substantial experience of teaching at the University's campus in Malaysia.

Jane researches talk and interaction, the discourse of teacher education and other learning contexts, and teacher professionalism in international settings. She is a member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics and the Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studies Research Centre.

Research Summary

Jane is currently researching voluntary English language provision in the East Midlands with Cora Lindsay, Renata Seredyńska and Smaragda Kampouri. This research focuses on language teaching for… read more

Recent Publications

• ZACHARIAS, S. and EVISON, J., 2023. I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language. In: VIANA, V., ed., Teaching English with Corpora Routledge. 139-142
• BAILEY, L. and EVISON, J., 2020. Neither backpackers nor locals: the professional identities of TESOL Teachers in East Asia. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL. 9(1), 41-47
• EVISON, J., BAILEY, L., TAYLOR, P. and TUBPUN, T., 2019. Professional identities of lecturers in three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia: multilingual professionals at work Compare.
• EVISON, J. and BAILEY, L., 2019. Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Journal. 22, 1-8

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Jane is a member of the Centre for International Education Research. Her research supervision areas include:

• language teacher development
• the relationship between talk and learning
• international Higher Education.

Research proposals: please email Jane if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic.

Current Research

Jane is currently researching voluntary English language provision in the East Midlands with Cora Lindsay, Renata Seredyńska and Smaragda Kampouri. This research focuses on language teaching for refugees and migrants which is provided as part of a module on the Nottingham Advantage Award (NAA).

Past Research

Jane's research background is in the field of applied linguistics. Her doctoral research investigated Higher Education talk, with a focus on turn construction and turn-taking in a range of learning encounters. For example:

Professional discursive identities of faculty in two "international" universities in Thailand and Vietnam (British Association of International and Comparative Education award, with Lucy Bailey)

Subject teachers' attitudes to English in their online postgraduate studies and in their teaching: voices from Nigeria, Kenya and Malaysia (British Council English Language Teaching Research Partnership, with Mary Bailey)

Jane has also contributed to commissioned research projects on paired speaking tests for Cambridge ESOL and provided research support for the Cambridge Grammar of English (Carter and McCarthy, 2006) and the Touchstone series of coursebooks. She is also a Project Affiliate at CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research), located at Pennsylvania State University.

Future Research

I am keen to continue to research professional discourse of all kinds, teacher education and the discourse of learning.

• ZACHARIAS, S. and EVISON, J., 2023. I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language. In: VIANA, V., ed., Teaching English with Corpora Routledge. 139-142
• BAILEY, L. and EVISON, J., 2020. Neither backpackers nor locals: the professional identities of TESOL Teachers in East Asia. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL. 9(1), 41-47
• EVISON, J., BAILEY, L., TAYLOR, P. and TUBPUN, T., 2019. Professional identities of lecturers in three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia: multilingual professionals at work Compare.
• EVISON, J. and BAILEY, L., 2019. Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Journal. 22, 1-8
• LINDSAY, C, EVISON, J and SEREDYŃSKA-ABOU-EID, R, 2019. Team teaching to support refugees IATEFL ESOL SIG Newsletter. Available at: <http://researcharchive.wintec.ac.nz/7242/1/IATEFL%20Newsletter%20Winter%202019.pdf>
• EVISON, J. and BAILEY, M., 2016. Subject teachers’ attitudes to English in their online postgraduate studies and in their teaching: voices from Nigeria, Kenya and Malaysia. British Council Research Paper 16.01
• EVISON, J., 2013. Turn openings in academic talk: where goals and roles intersect Classroom Discourse. 4(1), 3-26
• EVISON, J., 2012. A corpus linguistic analysis of turn-openings in spoken academic discourse: understanding discursive specialisation English Profile Journal. 3(1), e4
• EVISON, J. and WHITE, G., 2011. ‘Buy-lah!’ The English between the music on Malaysian radio stations – a case of ELF as a commodity?. In: COGO, A. and ARCHIBALD, A., eds., Latest trends in ELF research: Proceedings of the 2nd International ELF conference, Southampton, 2009. Cambridge Scholars' Press. 93 - 112
• EVISON, J. and PEMBERTON, R., 2011. TESOL Talk from Nottingham: Using Podcasts and Blogs to Extend Engagement Amongst Postgraduate TESOL Students. ELT World Online. 3,
• EVISON, J. M., 2010. What are the basics of analysing a corpus?. In: MCCARTHY, M. J. AND O'KEEFFE, A., ed., The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics Routledge. 122-135
• EVISON, J. and PEMBERTON, R., 2009. TESOL Talk from Nottingham: Using Podcasts to Develop Criticality Amongst Postgraduate TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Students. In: SIDOROVITCH, A., ed., Teaching for Integrative Learning: Innovations in University Practice 2. Centre for Integrated Learning, University of Nottingham. 31-47
• EVISON, J. M., 2009. Academic Discourse. In: CUMMINGS, L., ed., The Pragmatics Encyclopedia Routledge. 27-29
• EVISON, J.M. and MCCARTHY, M.J., 2004. Using corpora in language teaching.