Christian Jones

Biography

Christian Jones has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty five years and has worked in China, Japan, Thailand and the UK. During this time, he taught general English, business English, exam classes, classes for young learners and undertook materials/course development and teacher training.He holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham.

Chris' main research interests are related to spoken language and include work on spoken corpora, lexis and lexico-grammar, classroom applications of corpus data and instructed second language acquisition in general.

He is currently academic lead for postgraduate taught programmes in the School of the Arts and the University of Liverpool in the UK.

Where to find Christian Jones online

Books

Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 48,610. Language: English. Published: March 23, 2021 by Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Teaching methods & materials / language arts, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Research
The book reports on research into teaching conversation strategies as a means of developing communicative competence. It contains four chapters each describing a different study examining the teaching of conversation strategies in a different way. The author concludes by discussing the implications of these studies for teachers and researchers.