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Stuart M Champion
Associate Tutor
ELC Clubs Manager
Office: 526Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, No.111 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Town, Suzhou Industrial Park
Suzhou , Jiangsu, China 215123
Education:
- B.A. Hons (Leeds), CELTA (Liverpool)
Biography:
Start date at XJTLU: October 2007
Stuart graduated in Modern Languages from Leeds University in 2006. During his degree, he spent one year in Caracas, Venezuela, teaching EAP at university. His duties included teaching groups of undergraduate students academic reading and writing skills for their main subject area. He also participated in classes aimed at improving fluency and confidence.
After attaining a 2:1 in French and Spanish, his passion to teach English as a foreign language led him to sunny Seville in the south of Spain, where he taught over 500 young learners at a state secondary school. Class sizes ranged from 25 to 30, providing the opportunity to develop classroom management skills while bringing a learner-centred approach and making the students aware of the importance of the learning process. He also played an active role in the teacher development program aimed at creating a bilingual environment for the pupils. During his time in Seville, Stuart concentrated on the phonemic script, as Andalucians have particular difficulty with English pronunciation.
In July 2007, Stuart attained a Grade B in his RSA CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults) at the University of Liverpool with a multi-lingual group. Within days of completing the course, he was invited to teach at the Liverpool School of English where he taught Pre-Intermediate communicative English to an eclectic mix of nationalities including people of Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Oriental origin. This enabled him to focus not only on the appropriate language-learning strategies needed to complete tasks in all four macro-skills, but also on the various language-learning difficulties of several different linguistic backgrounds.
Stuart arrived at XJTLU in October 2007 where he is developing his EAP skills in a Chinese-UK academic context. He is at present focused on gaining EAP experience in both teaching and assessment. He hopes his time spent at XJTLU will be fruitful and rewarding both for himself and his students.
In August 2008, Stuart joined the teaching staff at the University of Liverpool to teach on the summer pre-sessional EAP course.
