Department of English and American Studies Faculty of Arts
Masaryk University
Current position
Lecturer
Education and academic qualifications
2003: Masters in Applied Linguistics. Dissertation: Corpora and Concordances in the Study and Teaching of the Verbs of Academic Prose
1984: Bachelor of Music Education
Professional experience
2008: Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Lecturer
2001: Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Research assistant
1997: Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Lecturer
1994: SCECGS Redlands, Music Teacher
1990: International House, Brno, English Teacher
1989: International House, Sydney, English Teacher
1988: SCECGS Redlands, Music Teacher
1982: Normanhurst Boys' High School, Music Teacher
Teaching activities
2008: English language teaching and literature teaching methodology; ICT in English Language Teaching
Using corpora in English language teaching and study
2001 - 2007: English for Academic Purposes; Academic Writing; Using corpora in English language teaching and study; ICT in English Language Teaching
1997 - 2001: English language teaching methodology; Normative Grammar; Communicative Syntax
Research activities
Exploration of the use of corpora in language teaching
Researching the potential application of recent findings in neo-Firthian linguistics to language teaching
The linguist aspects of academic writing
Other academic activities, research projects, grants
2012-2014: Participant in MU's IMPACT project
2010: Hosted the biennial international conference, Teaching and Language Corpora
2008: 3 week ICT teacher training for Shandong University, Jinan (China)through the University of Cincinnati
2003-07: British Council(China): one month teacher training courses
2003-08: Norwich (UK) ICT for ELT Teacher training
2005-06: Responsible for a two year nation-wide program training trainers in ELT through the Czech Ministry of Education
2002,04,06,08: TALC conferences corpora in language education research and teaching
1999: Deputy Head of English Dept, Faculty of Education
External activities
2002 - 2014 Annual teacher training workshops in China under the auspices of the British Council.
2002 - 2013 Annual teaching training summer ICT 4 ELT courses in Norwich (UK)
2008: Workshops for Austrian English teachers on resources for teaching Global Issues.
2005 - 2011: Tutor for Masters Multimedia course at Leeds Metropolitan University
2005: Invited lecture at "Znalosti" conference. Linguistic Resources available on the Web
2003: Invited workshop at MATSDA. The potential of e-learnin
Award
2010: British Council ELTon award for innovation in ELT publishing
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Major publications
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in the Process of Academic Writing. Online. In Using Corpora in the Process of Academic Writing. 2013, [citováno 2024-04-24] CHALLENGES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Vinfo
THOMAS, James Edward. Using the Sketch Engine for Linguistic Research. Online. 2013, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Teaching. Online. 2013. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/13. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora for Writing Academic Prose. Online. 2013, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Education. Online. 2013, [citováno 2024-04-24] Homepageinfo
THOMAS, James Edward. Just a Native Speaker. Online. In International Forum on English Language Teaching VI. 2013, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. British Council teacher training course: 4 weeks Hefei China. Online. In British Council teacher training course. 2012, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Methodentrainings und Materialentwicklung für den Nachbarsprachen-unterricht. Online. 2012, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Full day teacher training workshop in ICT in ELT. Online. In Full day teacher training workshop in ICT in ELT. 2011, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Four teacher training workshops in a weekend training course. Online. In Four teacher training workshops in a weekend training course. 2011, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. Erasmus teacher exchange: presented using web-based tools in vocabulary development. Online. In Erasmus teacher exchange: presented using web-based tools in vocabulary development. 2011, [citováno 2024-04-24] Presentation: Jamal and the Night Visitorsinfo
THOMAS, James Edward. Co-presenter of all day workshop at Eurocall annual conference on corpus use in language teaching. Online. In Co-presenter of all day workshop at Eurocall annual conference on corpus use in language teaching. 2011, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James Edward. British Council/NILE: teacher training course. Online. In British Council/NILE: teacher training course. 2011, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James. Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning. Online. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. 2006, roč. 2005, 6, 1. ISSN 1642-1027. [citováno 2024-04-24] URLinfo
THOMAS, James. Experiences with e-learning and visions for an intelligent future. Online. In SCO 2005. 2005. vyd. Brno: MU, 2005. s. 101-106, 5 s. ISBN 80-210-3699-0. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
THOMAS, James. USING COMPUTERS IN CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK. Online. 2004. ISBN 1642-1027. [citováno 2024-04-24] URLinfo
THOMAS, James Edward. EXTENDING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPUTERS. Online. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. 2003, roč. 2003, č. 3. ISSN 1642-1027. [citováno 2024-04-24] URLinfo