James Edward Thomas, M.A.

Curriculum vitae

Current workplace

• 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 g

Major publications

• THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in the Process of Academic Writing. In Using Corpora in the Process of Academic Writing. 2013. CHALLENGES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING V info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Using the Sketch Engine for Linguistic Research. 2013. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Teaching. doi:13. 2013. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora for Writing Academic Prose. 2013. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Education. 2013. Homepage info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Just a Native Speaker. In International Forum on English Language Teaching VI. 2013. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. British Council teacher training course: 4 weeks Hefei China. In British Council teacher training course. 2012. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Methodentrainings und Materialentwicklung für den Nachbarsprachen-unterricht. 2012. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Full day teacher training workshop in ICT in ELT. In Full day teacher training workshop in ICT in ELT. 2011. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Four teacher training workshops in a weekend training course. In Four teacher training workshops in a weekend training course. 2011. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Erasmus teacher exchange: presented using web-based tools in vocabulary development. In Erasmus teacher exchange: presented using web-based tools in vocabulary development. 2011. Presentation: Jamal and the Night Visitors info
• THOMAS, James Edward. Co-presenter of all day workshop at Eurocall annual conference on corpus use in language teaching. In Co-presenter of all day workshop at Eurocall annual conference on corpus use in language teaching. 2011. info
• THOMAS, James Edward. British Council/NILE: teacher training course. In British Council/NILE: teacher training course. 2011. info
• Global Issues in English Language Teaching. Society for Fair Trade. ISBN 978-80-254-2732-3. 2008. A sample of the book is available online info
• THOMAS, James. Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. roč. 2005, 6, 1. ISSN 1642-1027. 2006. URL info
• THOMAS, James. Experiences with e-learning and visions for an intelligent future. In SCO 2005. 2005. vyd. Brno: MU. s. 101-106, 5 s. ISBN 80-210-3699-0. 2005. info
• THOMAS, James. USING COMPUTERS IN CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK. ISBN 1642-1027. 2004. URL info
• THOMAS, James Edward. EXTENDING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPUTERS. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. roč. 2003, č. 3. ISSN 1642-1027. 2003. URL info

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