Martin Dobie
Senior Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes
After graduating from his BA and doing his initial CTEFLA, Martin completed his MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT at St Mary’s College, University of Surrey in 1996 and worked for Eurocentres London Victoria as Teacher of English as a Foreign language (TEFL) for 10 years. He has also taught English in Greece and the Czech Republic. He taught English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as Programme Leader for ESOL in the Further Education sector at West Cheshire College. Martin has been a CELTA teacher trainer for over 20 years and has worked in Higher Education as Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes since 2011.
Martin has taught on a range of ELT and teacher training courses.
He currently teaches on and/or is module leader for:
- XXX018 In-sessional English
- ML5210 Introduction to TEFL/TESOL
- ML6210 English for TEFL
- ML6101 English for Academic Purposes
- ML7207 ELT Methodologies and Approaches
- ML7206 Pedagogic Grammar
- ML7203 Introduction to ESP and EAP
Martin’s main area of current research is in the application of corpus linguistics for English language teaching.
- BA English and Sociology
- MA Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching
- Cambridge CTEFLA