User:Huwjarvis

Huw Jarvis is a Senior University Lecturer in Teaching English to Speakers of English as a Second Language (TESOL). His full CV is available HERE.

Huw's consultancy activities include working with both private and public sector language education providers. He has advised leading publishers on paper-based and on-line course content, he has worked with ministries of education on technology and other teaching education and curriculum issues, he has worked with the British Council on a number of initiatives across the globe and he has a track record of successful bidding for research funding – he is always looking for new collaborative partners. Huw's recent research narrative challenges established views of Computer and Mobile Assisted Language Learning (CALL\MALL) and argues for an alternative praxis of Mobile Assisted Language Use (MALU). Huw is also interested in the opportunities that technology provides for on-going professional language education development and in 2008 he founded the website TESOLacademic.org which has since become the leading independent website for the dissemination and discussion of TESOL-based research – all free at source via YouTube webcasts. The site includes contributions from many global leaders in the field and provides opportunities for practitioner interactions through Twitter and Facebook – Huw is interested in attracting partners to take this initiative to its next phase of development. Further details of his work are available from this site.

Huw has worked at Salford University in the UK for over 18 years and before that he worked at UMIST (now the University of Manchester) for two years. Prior to this he was a teacher and teacher trainer abroad for over 10 years. During this period he worked in Thailand (with the British Council and the American University Alumni), in Kuwait (with the Ministry of Defence) and in Sudan (with the Ministry of Education). He is a member of the editorial review board for the TESOL Journal published by TESOL, Inc. He is also on the editorial board of the The Journal of Asia TEFLL and is a reader for both CALL-EJ and TESL-EJ.