Dr Stephen Wong
Senior Lecturer
Sociolinguistics, language teaching, ethnography.
Department of Education , School of Childhood and Social Care
Steve Wong is a Senior Lecturer, Course Leader - MA in English Language Teaching. He supervises level 6 dissertations, leads level 7 modules, and acts as Director of Studies and research degree supervisor. He also serves as a member of the School of Childhood and Social Care Research Degrees Sub-Committee.
Qualifications
- PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication (2018, King’s College London)
- MA in English Language Teaching (2011, UEL)
- BA (Hons) in TESOL (2009, UEL)
Areas Of Interest
Steve is especially interested in the sociolinguistics of globalisation and its implications on language teaching policy and practice. His research takes the linguistic ethnographic approach in the collection and analysis of naturally occurring speech.
OVERVIEW
Steve Wong is a senior lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in English Language Teaching at UEL. He was awarded a PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication from King’s College London in 2018. Before joining UEL, he taught modules relating to the MA in TESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics at the IOE, UCL Faculty of Education and Society. He has also taught ESOL at a FE college and EFL in a range of settings. At UEL, he teaches across a range of both undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to Education Studies, research methods and English Language Teaching.
His broad research interests relate to the relationship between language, race, social class and ethnicity in the formation of local identities. In particular, his doctoral research sheds light on the ways in which historical local discourses of ethnic differences are reproduced and continue to shape the formation of emergent ethnic identities in Britain over the past few decades, and the resultant implications for educational policy and practice.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Research consultant for ‘Language attrition and mental health’ – A research project initiated by the University of Westminster to investigate the impact of mother tongue attrition on educational performance and mental health among second generation migrant communities.
Currently working on a study focusing on the lived experiences of teachers delivering primary EAL pedagogy during COVID.
TEACHING
BA (Hons) Education Studies
Explore UEL's BA Hons Education Studies degree, gaining insights into education systems, policies, and practices for a career in education.
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MA English Language Teaching
This Master's programme is the only one in London with an exclusive focus on the areas of TESOL and TEFL - as opposed to Applied Linguistics.
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Visiting Lecturer – Centre for Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. IOE UCL Faculty of Education and Society.
Publications
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Full publications list
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- Class is a verb: lived encounters of a minority ethnic academic who self-identifies with aspects of working class cultures in the UK in: Burnell Reilly, I. (ed.) The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above Your Station. Emerald, pp.155-171
