Dr Anton Elloway
Teaching Fellow in English for Academic Purposes
- English Language Education (ELE)
- Centre for Open Learning (COL)
Contact details
- Email: anton.elloway@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Paterson's Land
Holyrood Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8AQ - City
- Post code
Background
I am a Teaching Fellow in English for Academic Purposes at English Language Education, University of Edinburgh. Since joining the University in 2008, I have undertaken various roles and responsibilities, and I currently organise and teach in-sessional PhD courses and pre-sessional courses.
Before my tenure at the University of Edinburgh, I worked internationally as an English language teacher, teacher trainser, and ICT Coordinator inn counties such as English, Hungary, Czechia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Tunisia.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) English (1988)
- MA English Literature (1990)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education (1991)
- Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (2000)
- Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (2003)
- MA English Language Teaching (2012)
- Doctorate in Education (2021)
Undergraduate teaching
I teach English for Academic Purposes to students across all three Colleges.
Postgraduate teaching
In addition to teaching English for Academic Purposes across all three Colleges, I am responsible for organising the Writing your Phd First Year Report course and two courses from the Postgraduate Pre-sessional English Programme (PGPEP): Study Skills and Reflection (Semester 1) and Academic Development and Reflection (Semester 2).
Research summary
My doctoral thesis (Polis-ing English for academic purposes: thinking with Hannah Arendt about education and politics) focused on the connections between Hannah Arendt's political and educational work within the realm of EAP.
Current research interests
My current interests encompass educational, political, and ethical theories, with a current focus on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, as well as digital technologies and their impact on education.- Elloway, A. (2009). Teaching English with Information Technology. Teflnet. Available at: http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-teaching/teaching-english-with-information-technology
- Elloway, A. (2011). Dry. In C. Fraser (ed.) Anon: The Anonymous Submissions Poetry Magazine. 8. Edinburgh: Anon Poetry Magazine.
- Elloway, A. (2021). Polis-ing English for academic purposes: thinking with Hannah Arendt about education and politics. Doctoral thesis. University of Edinburgh. Available at: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/37830.
- Elloway, A. (2023). Unveiling academic practices: a reflection on goods and virtues. Teaching Matters Blog. University of Edinburgh. Available at: https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/unveiling-academic-practices-a-reflection-on-goods-and-virtues/.
- Elloway, A. (2024). Unveiling academic practices: a reflection on goods and virtues. BERA Blog. British Educational Research Association (BERA). Available at: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/unveiling-academic-practices-in-the-university-classroom-a-reflection-on-goods-and-virtues.
- Lynch T. and Elloway, A. (2013). Online Presessional Academic Language (OPAL) – a course for international online distance learning students. English Language Teaching Centre / Institute for Academic Development. University of Edinburgh.