Joe is the Programme Director for the MA in TESOL. He began his career in Spain as an English language teacher at the British Council and the Complutense University of Madrid and, after a number of successful years, also became a teacher trainer on Trinity College Certificate and Diploma programmes in TESOL and on Cambridge Distance Delta courses.

Joe has worked on various MA programmes in TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the UK before taking up his role at KCL in January 2021.

Joe is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He is an external examiner on UG and MA programmes in TESOL, Applied Linguistics and ELT and he is a reviewer for the European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL.

Research

Joe completed his PhD in 2019 (Aston University) with a thesis which focused on the teaching and learning of modality across genres in pre-sessional academic writing. His research combined a detailed discourse analysis with a materials evaluation and a study of teacher cognition. 

As well as all the areas noted above, Joe is also interested in teacher development more generally and in teaching and learning in higher education settings.

His research interests include: 

• English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
• Learner Academic Writing
• Teaching and Learning of Modality
• Materials Design and Evaluation
• Teacher Education and Reflective Practice

Teaching

Joe contributes to teaching on the following modules on the BA in English Language and Linguistics, the MA in TESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT.

UG modules

• 5SSEL019 Teaching Language as Communicative Skills (module lead)

PGT modules

• 7SSEE020 Language Teaching Methodology (module lead)
• 7SSEE021 Analysing English for Learning and Teaching
• 7SSEE007 Materials Development and ELT (module lead)
• 7SSEE013 Teacher Education
• 7SSEE001 Research Methods and Dissertation (Dissertation Co-ordinator)

PhD supervision

Joe is keen to supervise postgraduate research in the topics related to his research interests above.