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Dr Luis Carabantes, PhD

Luis

Lecturer in Academic and Professional Communication

Email: l.carabantes@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Bancroft Building 1.29

Profile

I have been involved in English language education since 2006 when I started to work as a teacher of English in Chile. Since then, I have taught in all the levels of education, from pre-school to English for to higher education, and as a teacher educator in undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

In 2013 I moved to the UK to do an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics at King’s College London, and in 2020 I completed a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the UCL – Institute of Education. My research explores the intersection of teacher education and materials development. More specifically, using the sociocultural framework of Activity Theory, I look at how teachers learn to design their own teaching materials. I have published part of my research on TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, and the ELT Journal, amongst others.

At Queen Mary, I am a Lecturer in Academic and Professional Communication at the Language Centre. My roles and responsibilities include teaching and assessing in the MA in ELT the units of Curriculum Design and Materials Evaluation, Approaches and Methods in ELT, and Second Language Acquisition. I also work designing and delivering in-sessional modules of academic language and literacy such as Project and Research Writing, which are offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students. I am also the Careers Lead of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film.

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