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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THOMAS, James Edward. Using the Sketch Engine for Linguistic Research. 2013. info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Teaching. 2013. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/13. info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora for Writing Academic Prose. 2013. info
THOMAS, James Edward. Using Corpora in Language Education. 2013. Homepageinfo
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 Visitorsinfo
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
THOMAS, James. Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. 2006, roč. 2005, 6, 1. ISSN 1642-1027. URLinfo
THOMAS, James. Experiences with e-learning and visions for an intelligent future. In SCO 2005. 2005. vyd. Brno: MU, 2005, s. 101-106, 5 s. ISBN 80-210-3699-0. info
THOMAS, James. USING COMPUTERS IN CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK. 2004. ISBN 1642-1027. URLinfo
THOMAS, James Edward. EXTENDING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPUTERS. Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English. 2003, roč. 2003, č. 3. ISSN 1642-1027. URLinfo