Teaching and subject expertise
Richard currently teaches courses at postgraduate and undergraduate level in Grammar and Phonology (MA TESOL), First and Second Language Acquisition (B.Ed TESL) and English Language: Past, Present and Future (BA in English Language and Communication) He has also taught courses on language teaching methodology, ELT materials design and evaluation, testing and assessment, language teacher education, and teaching language through literature, and for some years he taught a course in syntax and phonology for language and speech therapy students in the department of Allied Health. He supervises students on the MA TESOL and PhD in Applied Linguistics on a range of subjects, with a preference for his specialist areas of classroom interaction, grammar, spoken grammar, phonology, and teacher education. He has been involved in a number of overseas consultancies and in-service training workshops organised by the British Council - in Senegal, Morocco and Yemen - involving secondary school teachers, University English teachers, and school inspectors. He is a trainer for the Cambridge CELTA course, a member of the International Asssociation of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, and has been a reviewer for the ELT Journal and TESOL Quarterly.