Curriculum vitae
1. Family name: TRIBBLE
2. First names: Christopher Thomas
3. Date of birth: 15.5.48
4. Nationality: British
5. Civil status: Married
6. Education:
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Institution [ Date from - Date to ] |
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: |
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Lancaster University (1995 - 1998) |
Ph.D. Linguistics |
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Institute of Education, London University (1985) |
MA Applied Linguistics |
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Leeds University (1975) |
P.G.C.E. TESL/TEFL |
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Keele University (1972) |
MA American Literature |
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Keele University (1996-1970) |
BA Hons American Studies and History |
7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)
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Language |
Reading |
Speaking |
Writing |
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Polish |
5 |
5 |
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8. Membership of professional bodies: UK Evaluation Society
9. Other skills:
- Trainer-level competence in applications software (Word / Excel / PowerPoint / MS Project)
- Survey development and analysis (Survey Pro / Excel / SPSS)
- Professional photographic skills (digital capture, black and white + colour post processin)
- Trainer level competence in Adobe Photoshop / Lightroom and digital image processing.
10. Present position:
- Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies, School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College, University of London
- independent consultant
11. Years within the firm: 12 years (King's College) / 14 years independent consultant
12. Key qualifications:
· I provide training and consultancy in the design, management and evaluation of social projects to academic, governmental and non-governmental organisations. I am able to offer specific services in:
- programme / project design / implementation and project management training
- programme / project evaluation
- logical framework development and review
- human resource and performance management in project settings
- financial management in programmeproject settings
- effective use of IT in programme/project management
· As part of my professional practice I am able offer clients a comprehensive photographic documentation service. This includes field-visits and negotiations with stakeholders on the kinds of image required, professional level 35 mm photography (either direct digital capture, or shooting slide or negative, scanning and colour correction), and the preparation of publication or web ready images on CD ROM or exhibition quality prints using photochemical or digital technologies.
· I continue to have a long-standing research and teaching interest in applied linguistics, with a particular focus on written communication and the use of text data-bases (corpora) in ELT. I am a lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching at King's College, University of London (courses in Managing and Evaluating Innovation, Analysing written discourse, and English for Academic Purposes). I also maintain an interest in literary stylistics and have presented conference papers in this area.
13.
Professional experience:
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Date from - Date to |
Location |
Company |
Position |
Description |
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2006 - present |
London, UK |
School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College, University of London |
Lecturer / Independent Consultant / Documentary photographer |
Teaching Applied Linguistics at King's College London, + training, consultancy and photographic documentation services for international clients. |
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August 2002 / June 2006 |
Warsaw, Poland London, UK
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School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College, University of London |
Lecturer / Independent Consultant / Documentary photographer |
Teaching Applied Linguistics at King's College London, + training, consultancy and photographic documentation services for international clients. |
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June 1998 / July 2002 |
London / Colombo, Sri Lanka
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King's College, University of London |
Lecturer / Independent Consultant / Documentary photographer |
Teaching Applied Linguistics at King's College London and consultancy services for the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID), the British Council, Oxfam, GTZ and other NGOs |
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July 1995 / May 1998
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Warsaw, Poland
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IELE, Lancaster / CALS Reading
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Associate Lecturer / Free-lance consultant |
I undertook a series of consultancies in Central and Eastern Europe, the and China (see listing of recent consultancies below). My clients the European Union, DFID, the universities of Lancaster and Reading, and the British Council. |
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April 1992 / June 1995
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Riga, Latvia
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The British Council, Baltic States
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Projects Manager
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As the British Council's ELT Project Manager in Estonia, Latvia and, responsible for a developing a programme of in-service support for teachers, Specialist Language Teaching Units for the Lithuanian and Latvian governments, and a project to provide new national foreign language examinations for all three Baltic countries (Year 12 Project). Also responsible for IT development, the administration of an annual programme budget of over £120,000, and the management of a team of British consultants based in the ELT resource centres in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius |
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September 1989 / March 1992
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London, UK
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Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University
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Head of Unit
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Established a successful English Language and Study Skills Unit for. This included the development of innovative pre- and in-sessional, staff development, course promotion in the UK and Japan, and liaison with academic departments. A major part of the work involved the preparation of a new academic writing programme for postgraduate students - many of them on LLM programmes in International Law and Intellectual Property Law, and the design of a new access course for Japanese students in Social Sciences |
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August 1986 / August 1989
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London, UK
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Bell Language Institute, Bell Educational Trust
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Teacher Trainer / Teacher
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First teacher to take up post in a new English Language Teaching centre. Teacher training courses for teachers from Europe, Latin Americaand Asia, teaching of business and examination groups, management of a computer network |
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July 1985 / July 1986
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London, UK |
Middlesex Business School, Middlesex Polytechnic
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Lecturer |
Teacher and lecturer in English language and study skills for the students on the BA in European Business Administration. |
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August 1983 / July 1984
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Quangzhou, PR China
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Guangzhou Foreign Languages Institute
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Foreign Expert (Lecturer in English Language Education)
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Pre-departure courses for Chinese academics and teacher development for academic staff in the FL Institute |
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September 1981 / July 1983
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Manchester / Leeds, UK |
University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology / Leeds Overseas Education Unit
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Visiting Lecturer
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Courses in writing skills for undergraduate and post graduate students + programme in English for Management for Saudi students |
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September 1978 / August 1981
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Rochdale, UK |
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council Heybrook Primary School
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Head of English Language Unit
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The establishment of an English language support unit and educational for newly arrived Bengali children in an inner-city school in Rochdale, |
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September 1975 / August 1978
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Rochdale, Lancashire
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Rochdale Industrial Language Unit
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Head of Unit
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The establishment of an Industrial Language Training Unit to provide teaching services for "New Commonwealth Immigrant" workers in the of England. |
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September 1973 / July 1974
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Bradford, UK
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Bellevue Girls School, Bradford
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Teacher of English and French
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Courses for secondary school students of English as mother tongue, and French language and literature |
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September 1972 / August 1973
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Nancy, France
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Université de Nancy II, Faculté des Lettres
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Lecteur d'Anglais
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Language classes second and third year students (Cours de Phonologie) + specialist literature seminars for Aggregation Candidates |
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September 1970 / July 1991
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Paris, France
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Berlitz
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Professeur d'Anglais |
Teacher of English to business students and in-company courses (Saviem, Cellophane) |
14. Other relevant information (e.g., publications):
Consultancy experience
(most recent first)
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December 2011 English Language Teaching in Morocco – a photographic documentation British Council, London |
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September 2011-March 2012 Editor: Managing Change in ELT: Lessons from experience major publication from the British Council |
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April 2011 Project design for higher education Higher Education Council, Azerbaijan / British Council |
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February 2011 – March 2012 Evaluation system review European Centre for Modern Languages |
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July 2010 Foundations and Applications in Development Evaluation King's College London, Executive Education Programme |
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March 2010 Photographic Documentation – Islam in Europe conference British Council, Switzerland |
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February 2010 Project Management and EvaluationTraining for NGOs British Council Armenia |
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September 2009 Photographic Documentation – King's Place Festival, King's Place, London |
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April 2009 Programme Review - Go4English website British Council Egypt |
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October 2008 - March 2009 Expert Review - British Council Evaluation approaches and reporting The British Council, UK |
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December 2008 Project Management Training British Council UK HR department |
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November 2008 Documentary Photography (Copenhagen Youth Project) King's Place, London |
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November 2008 Project Management Training British Council Romania |
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September 2008 Expert Review - European Language Training and Portfolio development for Railway Staff Riga, Latvia / Paris France |
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March 2008 Documentary Photography Training (Year of Cultural Dialogue project) St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta |
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January - February 2008 Project Management Training British Council Japan / British Council Portugal |
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November 2007 Project Management Training British Council France, Paris |
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November 2007 Evaluation: The Military Communication Skills Project, Sri Lanka British Council Sri Lanka / FCO |
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October 2007 Project Management Training British Council Bangladesh, Dhaka |
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September 2007Project Management Training British Council Russia (Moscow & St Petersburg) |
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May / July 2007 Evaluation system development European Centre for Modern Language Teaching, Graz |
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April 2007 Project Management Training British Council, Madrid / Washington |
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March-July 2007 Migration in Europe: Photographic and interview documentation British Council, Northern Ireland |
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February / March 2007 World Economic Forum, Davos: Photographic and video documentation British Council, Switzerland |
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March 2007 Project Management Training British Council, Finance and Business System Group |
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February 2007 Project Management Training British Council, DELPHE Education Links Group |
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January 2007 Project Management Training British Council, (Counterpoint Think Tank) |
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December 2006 Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad English language teaching in Higher Education - Policy Review Facilitation |
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September - December 2006 Professional development in Project Management - Bangkok, Belfast, Edinburgh, Islamabad The British Council |
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October 2006 Project Evaluation Training Workshop, Cairo British Council Near East and North Africa |
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September 2006 Evaluation and Policy Development Evaluation: The Vietnam Teacher Training Network Project British Council Vietnam |
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May-June 2006 Fitness for Purpose Review - the Overseas Appointment Contract British Council UK |
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February 2006 Giving and receiving performance management reviews - a training programme British Council Review Training |
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November 2005 - February 2006 Evaluation and Policy Review: National In-Service Teacher Education Project British Council Azerbaijan |
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October 2005 - June 2006 Professional Development in Project Management - a new regional training programme British Council South East Europe / Near East and North Africa Regions |
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September 2004 - December 2005 Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Evaluation training and consultancy for a national curriculum development project |
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November 2005 Photographic Documentation ECM Jazz Festival, Poland |
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September - November 2005 Evaluation of the Slovakia Maturita Examination Reform Project British Council, Slovakia |
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October 2005 - March 2006 Training in documentary photograpy Regional Facilitation and Negotiation Centre, Iasi, Romania |
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September 2005 Project Management and Evaluation training British Council Germany |
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July 2005 Training programme in project design, implementation and evaluation IED / Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan |
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January 2004 - July 2005 Higher Education Commission of Pakistan / British Council Evaluation of the capacity of the Pakistan Higher Education Ssstem in teaching English as a foreign language |
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December 2004 - June 2006 Council of Europe Evaluation of the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages in Graz - an extensive review of the programme and products offered by a major European institution |
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September 2004 - July 2005 British Council Development of a Standard Project Management and Evaluation training programme for delivery through British Council offices worldwide. Training courses delivered in Croatia, Turkey, Poland, UK, Hungary, Greece, Uzbekistan |
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November / December 2004 British Council Bulgaria Evaluation of English language teaching projects managed through local partners. |
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July 2004 British Council Croatia Policy review and project management training |
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June 2004 British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina Evaluation of the impact of the Peacekeeping English Project |
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February - June 2004 British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina Diverse Europeans - photography and social documentation project |
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January 2004 British Council Indonesia Project Management in Social Change - training and consultancy |
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December 2003 British Council South East Europe Region - Split, Croatia Policy Development Workshop Facilitation |
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October 2003 British Council Staff Development Project Management Training for Baltic region countries (Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Finand / Lithuania + Switzerland and Holland) |
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July 2003 - February 2004 British Council Hungary English for Specific Purposes materials design consultancy (Managing EU Projects) |
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July 2003 - October 2003 British Council UK Pilot of supported open learning system for global delivery of project management training |
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May 2003 British Council Latvia Strategic Planning and Project Management Training |
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March 2003 - June 2003 British Council Bulgaria Strategic Planning and Project Management Training |
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February 2003 British Council Sri Lanka Project Evaluation Training |
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February 2003 DfID Project Proposal Writing - training course for the Government of the Maldives |
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January 2003 British Council Ethiopia Project Management Training |
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December 2002 The British Council, Estonia Project Management and Evaluation Training |
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December 2002 The British Council, Estonia Using electronic texts - an introduction to corpus linguistics for language teachers |
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April 2002 - March 2003 The British Council "Looking at ELT" (phase 2) - a major photographic documentation of English language teaching worldwide - Ethiopia, Poland, Senegal, Tunisia |
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February 2002 - May 2002 The British Council, Hungary ESP Curriculum Development for Universities (consultation and facilitation) |
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February 2002 The British Council Poland Project management training - a one week course for BC staff and Polish counterparts |
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November 2001 - September 2002 The British Council, Armenia Development of a baseline study and participative evaluation system for secondary ELT |
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November / December 2001 The British Council, Sri Lanka Project management training - a four day professional development programme for BC staff |
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October / November 2001 |
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The British Council, Georgia and Armenia Photographic documentation |
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September 2001 - October 2002 The British Council, Bulgaria Development of a baseline study and participative evaluation system |
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August / September 2001 The British Council, Japan Project Management Training - a one week course for BC staff |
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June / July 2001 The British Council, UK Impact assessment - The English 2000 Project |
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March 2001 DFID - China Impact assessment - Teacher Training project - Lanzhou, Gansu Province |
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February - July 2001 The British Council, Georgia Development of a baseline study and participative evaluation system |
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January - September 2001 The British Council, Bulgaria Programme evaluation / Baseline Study Development |
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December 2000 - July 2001 University of Vienna, Austria Consultancy and facilitation re the development of a curriculum for English for Specific Purposes |
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October 2000 The British Council, India Photographic documentation of MIS activities in Delhi, Chennai and Colombo |
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February 2000 Oxfam Sri Lanka Scoping / feasibility survey re new Oxfam project activity in conflict affected districts in Northern Sri Lanka October 2000 - March 2001 Oxfam, Sri Lanka Photographic documentation of Oxfam programmes |
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July 2000 The British Council, Poland Development and implementation of a revised budget management system for GfS Projects |
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June 2000 |
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The British Council, Romania Feasibility Review re proposed Baccalureate Reform project |
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March 2000 The British Council, Poland / The British Council Evaluative review of British Council activities in ELT In-service teacher training in Poland since 1996 |
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November 1999 - December 1999 The British Council / The British Council, Hungary Evaluative review of British Council activities in ELT In-service teacher training in Hungary since 1993 |
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November 1999 The British Council, Sri Lanka Higher Education Opportunities Market Survey |
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July 1999 Oxfam Sri Lanka / British Council Sri Lanka Performance management system development / implementation / training |
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April 1999 UK Government Department For International Development (DFID) /Government of Bangladesh Evaluation Consultancy - Primary English Resource Centre (PERC) project |
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January 1999 - April 1999 UK Government Department For International Development (DFID)/ Government of Sri Lanka Evaluation consultancy - Primary English Language (PELP) project |
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October 1998 - February 1999 Oxfam Sri Lanka Policy and Human Resources Management Systems Review |
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October 1998 UK Government Department For International Development (DFID) Facilitation of DFID South Asia Policy Review Workshop |
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October - November 1998 The British Council, Sri Lanka Market Survey for the development of Distance Education services |
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June 1998 The British Council, China / Ministry of Justice, PR China Training needs analysis for Ministry of Justice university staff |
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May - November 1998 |
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The British Council, Romania Project evaluation training / management - consultancy and training |
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March - April 1998 The British Council in Eastern and Central Europe A Quality Approach to Project Management: consultancy and training services (160 staff trained) |
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November 1997 - January /1998 UK Government Department For International Development / State Education Commission, PR China - Gansu / Qinghai Project Evaluation and Design Consultancy - Inner Mongolia Project Evaluation and Design Consultancy |
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September 1997 The British Council / Ministry of Education, Slovenia Project Design Workshop - Language Development for Young Learners |
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September 1997 + February 1998 The British Council Ukraine / Ukrainian Ministry of Education Evaluation and Baseline Study Training + Document review - Quality Assurance in Secondary Education - Curriculum renewal for the teaching of History |
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June/July 1997 The British Council Ukraine Managing Electronic Documents - consultancy and training programme |
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April 1997 The British Council Slovenia Project systems Evaluation and Project Definition consultancy for the British Council, Slovenia |
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February / March 1997 The British Council - Slovenia: Regional workshop - Project Management Training for Grant-in-Aid work - Slovakia Project Management Training for Grant-in-Aid work - Poland: Project Management Training for Grant-in-Aid work |
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January 1997 Centre for Applied Language Studies, Reading University / The British Council Poland Jagellonian University, Krakow - "Teaching Writing" staff development workshop |
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December 1996 - December 1997 EU Phare / Polish Ministry of Labour Inspection Project Team Leader: English Language training project for the National Training Centre of the Polish Ministry of Labour Inspection |
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October 1996 |
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UK Government Department For International Development / State Education Commission, PR China - Mongolia: Evaluation of a provincial teacher education scheme - Lanzhou: Evaluation of university English language teacher education programme |
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March 1996 - July 1996 The British Council Evaluation of the Studia Project - a national network of English Teaching Centres in Polish Universities (March - July 1996) |
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January 1996 The British Council Project Management Training (Design and Implementation) for BC staff from UK, Eastern and Central Europe and East Jerusalem (December 1995) |
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December 1995 Overseas Development Agency / The British Council Project Evaluation and Review, Shanghai Education Commission / Shanghai Teachers' University (December 1996) |
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March 1995 The British Council, UK Consultancy on preparation of Project Evaluation Guidelines |
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September 1994 / September 1995 / January 1996) The British Council, St Petersburg Consultancies on Management and Information Systems and IT training for ELT Resource Centre staff |
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March 1992 - May 1995 The British Council, Baltic States - National Baseline Study for Language Education - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania - Policy review consultancy, Ministry of Education, Latvia - National Language Examinations review in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania + Project Specification |
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Hopkins A., & C. Tribble, (1989) Outlines (Longman Writing Skills) Longman London
Tribble C., (1989) Word for Word (Longman Writing Skills) Longman London
Tribble C. & G. Jones, (1990) Concordances in the Classroom Longman London
Tribble, C., (1996) Writing, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Tribble C. & G. Jones, (1997) Concordances in the Classroom: a resource book for teachers Athelstan Houston TX
Tribble, C., (1998) Writing Difficult Texts, Lancaster: Unpublished PhD thesis, Lancaster University
Scott, M. & C. Tribble (2006) Textual patterns: keyword and corpus analysis in language education, the Hague: Benjamins
Tribble, C. (ed.). (2012). Managing change in ELT: lessons from experience. London: British Council.
ARTICLES
Granger S & C Tribble (1997) "Exploiting Learner Corpus Data in the Classroom: form-focused instruction and data-driven learning" in Granger S (ed.) Working with Learner Language Longman Harlow
Tribble, C., (1985) Style and Purpose: or why things get written in different ways, London: MA dissertation, Institute of Education, London: University
Tribble, C., (1989) "The use of text structuring vocabulary in native and non-native speaker writing" , MUESLI News Jun-89
Tribble, C., (1991) "Concordancing and an EAP writing program" , CAELL Journal 1#2: 10-15
Tribble, C., (1991) "Some uses of electronic text in English for academic purposes" in Millom., JC, and K. Tong (eds.) Text Analysis in Computer Assisted Language Learning, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Tribble, C., (1997) "Getting started with concordancing" in Boswood, T. (ed.) New Ways in using Computers in ESL, New York: TESOL
Tribble, C., (1997) "Improvising corpora for ELT: quick-and-dirty ways of developing corpora for language teaching" in Melia, J. and B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.) PALC 97: practical applications in language corpora, Lodz: Lodz University Press
Tribble, C., (1999) "Genres, keywords, teaching: towards a pedagogic account of the language of project proposals" in Burnard and McEnery (eds.) Rethinking Language Pedagogy from a Corpus Perspective: Papers from the Third International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, (Lodz Studies in Language), Hamburg: Peter Lang
Tribble, C., (2000) "Designing evaluation into education change processes" , ELTJ 54#4: 319-327
Tribble, C., (2000) "Practical uses for language corpora in ELT" in Brett, P. and G. Motteram (eds.) A special interest in computers, Whitstable IATEFL : 31-42
Tribble, C., (2001) "Corpora and corpus analysis: new windows on academic writing" in Flowerdew, J. (ed.) Academic Discourse, Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman
Tribble, C., (2001) "Corpora and language teaching: adjusting the gaze" , (unpublished plenary presentation, ICAME conference, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Tribble, C., (2001) "Small corpora and teaching writing: towards a corpus-informed pedagogy of writing" in Rose, R. et, al (eds.) Small corpus studies and ELT, Amsterdam: Benjamins :381-408
Tribble, C., (2003) "Review: Five electronic learners' dictionaries" , ELTJ 57/2:182-197
Tribble, C., (2004) "The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text" in Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.) Practical Applications in Language and Computers - PALC 2003 Lodz Studies in Language Vol. 9
Tribble, C. (2004). Managing relationships in professional writing. in Hidalgo. E., Quereda, L., and Santana, J. (Eds) Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom: selected papers from TALC 6, Grenada. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
Tribble, C., (2005) "Review of H.G. Widdowson, 2004, Text, Context, Pretext" International Journal of Applied Linguistics 15 (3), 415-421.
Tribble, C., (2006) "Written in, written out: who sets the standards for academic writing?" in Usó-Juan, E., and A. Martínez-Flor (eds) Current trends in learning and teaching the four skills within a communicative approach, Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter pps: 447-471
Tribble, C. (2006). Using keywords to read the news. in Braun, S., Kohn, K., & Mukherjee, J. (Eds.), Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy: New Resources, New Tools, New Methods. (pps.107-126), Berlin: Peter Lang.
Tribble, C., (2008). Review of O'Keefe, A., M. McCarthy, & R. Carter,."From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching" . English Language Teaching Journal. 62 (2) pp. 213-216
Tribble, C., (2009). "Writing Academic English - a survey review of current published resources". English Language Teaching Journal. 63: 400-41
Tribble, C., (2010). "The game I'm interested in…". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 15/3: 359-362
Tribble, C., (2010). What are concordances and how are they used?, in M. McCarthy & A. O'Keeffe (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics . London: Routledge.
Tribble, C., (2010). A genre-based approach to developing materials for writing., In Harwood, N. (ed) English Language Teaching Materials: Theory & Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tribble, C., (2011) "Revisiting apprentice texts: using lexical bundles to investigate expert and apprentice performances in academic writing". in Meunier F., De Cock S., Gilquin G. and Paquot M. (eds) A Taste for Corpora. In honour of Sylviane Granger. The Hague: Benjamins
Wingate, U. & C. Tribble, (2012) "The Best of Both Worlds? Towards an EAP/Academic Literacies Writing Pedagogy" Studies in Higher Education. 37 (5)
Tribble, C., (forthcoming 2013). Concordancing, in C.A. Chapelle (ed) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Tribble, C., (forthcoming 2013). Corpora in the language teaching classroom, in C.A. Chapelle (ed), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS (1998/2012)
Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), June 1998, Oxford UK
"Genres, keywords, teaching: towards a pedagogic account of the language of project proposals"
Language Policy and Language Planning: Issues in ELT,January 1999, Dhaka, Bangladesh
"Designing evaluation into educational change processes: the value of insider managed baseline studies"
British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP), April 1999, Leeds UK
Plenary address - " Big corpora, little corpora: what relevance do they have for the teaching of writing?"
British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) / CUP Workshop, May 1999, Reading UK
Using a multivariate, multidimensional methodology to differentiating between written texts
IATEFL Computer SIG Conference, July 2000, Barcelona, Spain, Plenary address:
"Language corpora: what relevance do any of them have for English language teachers?"
IATEFL Cyprus international conference, May 2001, Cyprus
Plenary address: Corpora and ELT
ICAME Conference, May 2001, Louvain, Belgium
Plenary address: Corpora and teaching: adjusting the gaze
Mediterranean Summer Institute, ESADE, Barcelona, July 2001
Teacher education programme: Teaching business writing - a corpus informed approach
IATEFL Conference York (April 2002)
Looking at English Teaching - workshop on the photographic documentation of Education processes
Practical Applications of Language Corpora (PALC), Łòdz, Poland (April 2003)
The text, the whole text and nothing but the text, or why are most corpora are of little use to language teachers.
Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), Grenada, Spain (July 2004)
Business and professional communication: managing relationships in professional writing
Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), Paris, France (July 2006 - with Mike Scott)
US and them: The G8 and George Bush's Axis of Evil in the Guardian Weekly
Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), Lisbon, Portugal (July 2008)
In this present paper… some emerging norms in lingua franca English writing in the sciences?
Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), Brno, Czech Republic (July 2010) Learning from learners: lessons and applications from the development of a corpus of higher education apprentice writing.