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Emily Thornton – Bath Spa University

Personal statement

Emily teaches Secondary Modern Languages on the PGDE and PGCE course.

Forthcoming publication: Chapter 17 in Mentoring Modern Languages Teachers in the Secondary School eds Molway and Gordon (pub 2025)

 

Research areas of interest

  • Coaching, training and mentoring trainee teachers
  • Equality of access to ML in schools post-Brexit
  • German teaching in mainstream education
  • Lesson planning and teacher autonomy in a ‘workload savvy’ professional culture
  • Modern Languages methodologies and philosophies of teaching and learning, specifically the contextual reasons for recent popularity of certain methods 

Academic qualifications

  • BA (Hons)
  • PGCE (QTS)
  • MSc
  • PGCHE
  • FHEA

Professional memberships

  • Association of Language Learning

Teaching subjects and areas of expertise

  • PGDE (Secondary Modern Languages)
  • PGCE (Secondary Modern Languages)
  • MA Curriculum Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning, Leadership in Education

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