Chris Mansfield, MA Linguistics

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Chris is an English language and academic writing tutor in the QMUL Language Centre, part of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. He teaches English for both general and specific academic purposes (EGAP and ESAP) and is actively involved in the design and provision of literacy support and development for QMUL students. His research interests include the study of academic writing as social practice; the application of computational linguistics and learning technologies in the development of academic writing; lexicogrammatical approaches to language learning; and the linguistic impacts of disciplinary context on student writing in UK HE. Chris has worked at Queen Mary for ten years and has also worked on academic literacy and writing development in English with students and researchers from SOAS; UCL; Middlesex University; The University of the Arts; Freie Universität, Berlin and Akademie Ved (Czech Academy of Sciences), Prague.

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