Miss Kinga Maior

  • Tutor - English for Academic Purposes (Pre-sessional) (Modern Foreign Languages)
  • Associate Tutor (Creativity Culture & Faith)

Research interests

  • Blended learning in the EAP classroom through online platforms (e.g. Padlet, Socrative)
  • The use of Second Life/Gather Town in teaching academic study skills (e.g. discussions, presentations)
  • Vocabulary acquisition in multimodal environments, such as massively multiplayer online games

Teaching

My EFL teaching career spanned across different European countries, such as Hungary, Romania, Italy, Scotland and England - including ESL and Business English - for approximately twelve years.

I have been teaching mainly EAP, academic study skills as well as research methods/theory at INTO Newcastle, Kaplan International and the University of Glasgow since 2011. I have also been supervising TESOL students at the University of Glasgow since 2018.

Additional information

Conferences