Biography

PhD Applied Linguistics (Southampton), MA Applied Linguistics (Southampton), BA English (Birmingham), BA Music (Southampton); PGCE (Birmingham), Dip RSA TEFLA (Birmingham City), PGCertHE (Sussex).

Simon is the convenor for the Pre-Masters in EAP programme and is involved with supervising Doctoral research students in the area of ELT.  He has extensive experience in teaching English for Academic Purposes and Applied Linguistics, both overseas (Finalnd, Sweden and Germany), and at a number of UK universities, including UCL, Imperial College and the University of Surrey. 

Simon is a contributor to the BBC Learning English programmes on Academic Listening, available online.  He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  

Community and Business

Simon stood as a Green Party candidate in the UK local elections in May 2013.  He is a Trustee for AMEND (the Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders), and a member of St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham, Parochial Church Council.  

English for Academic Purposes.  Mobile-assisted language learning.  Discourse analysis of crisis communication.  Language processing and speech production.

Research project with Maggie Korko: Inhibitory control, self-monitoring and candidates' performance in public speaking tests (2013).

Recent and upcoming conference presentations include: 

Inhibitory control, self-monitoring and test takers’ performance in a public speaking test, with Malgorzata Korko, 46^th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 5-7 September 2013

‘Being fair and showing care’: the moral discourse of an English language teacher, BALEAP 2013 Conference, University of Nottingham, 19-21 April 2013

Mobile devices and learner interaction inside and outside the classroom, 47^th IATEFL Annual Conference, Liverpool, 9 April 2013

MALL and collaborative learner interaction in and out of the classroom, BALEAP PIM: Blending Technologies with EAP, University of Southampton, 4 November 2012

Narratives and accounts: ‘post-crisis’ narration in annual company reports, with Jules Winchester, 12^th Cercles Conference, LSE, 6 September 2012

Analysing the language of global companies post-crisis: insights from an interdisciplinary approach, with Jules Winchester, Cutting Edges Research: Competing Discourses, Canterbury Christ Church University, 6 July 2012

The communication of contrition: the language of global companies post-crisis, with Jules Winchester, Languages in the Real World, University of Portsmouth, 12 May 2012

The emergence of narrative in the early stages of writing a doctoral thesis”, EATAW, University of Limerick, 30 June 2011

Using the National Student Survey to improve student learning”, with Rachel Cole, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies workshop, London 22 June 2011

With Jules Winchester, he has contributed a piece on contrition to the Macmillan Dictionary Blog. Saying ‘sorry’ – and showing that you mean it.  Available at http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/saying-sorry-and-showing-that-you-mean-it, 23 July 2012.

Student Consultation

1230-1330 Fridays A43

Arnold, Hilary and Williams, Simon (2013) Arbitrating beliefs about learning to write in the PhD writing workshop. In: EAP within the higher education garden: cross-pollination between disciplines, departments and research. Proceedings of the 2011 BALEAP conference. Garnet Education, Reading, pp. 53-63. ISBN 9781908614711

Williams, Simon (2013) Writing a statement of teaching philosophy. In: T Pattison, ed. IATEFL 2012 Glasgow Conference Selections. IATEFL, Canterbury, pp. 239-241. ISBN 9781901095425

Williams, Simon and Cerda, Yolanda (2012) Doing the product: An experiential task-based approach to inspire learners. In: IATEFL 2011 Brighton Conference Selections: 45th International Conference Brighton. IATEFL Publications, Canterbury, pp. 99-101. ISBN 9781901095388

Williams, Simon (2012) Finding a voice: writing narrative in the early stages of a doctoral thesis. Journal of Academic Writing, 2 (1). pp. 24-34. ISSN 2225-8973

Marshall, Steve and Williams, Simon (2010) Combining Process, Product and Genre on a Graduate EAP Writing Course 'Outside of the Disciplines'. In: Developing Academic Literacy. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039115457