Shelagh Rixon

University of Warwick, Centre for Applied Linguistics, Emerita

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My first degree was in Classics but my career has been in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.I am retired from full-time work but still active in research and writing and serve as an Associate Tutor on an MA programme at the University of Leicester. From 1991 to 2010 I was an Associate Professor at Warwick University. From 1974 to 1991 I was a career officer in the British Council English Language Division.

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1. Introduction: Assessment and Early Language Learning

Integrating Assessment into Early Language Learning and Teaching

Communication Games. ELT Guide 1

Tip Top. Teacher's book 2

A history of IATEFL : the first fifty years of the international association of teachers of English as a foreign language

Directory of UK ELT Research 2005-2008

How to use games in language teaching

Teaching English to young learners in Europe

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners, 2018

16. Assessing Young English Language Learners in Serbia: Teachers’ Attitudes and Practices

Developing Listening Skills

Tip top : pupil's book 1

Tiptop 1. [Sv. 1.], Teacher's book

Listening : upper-intermediate

Young Learners of English: Some Research Perspectives

Resources for the teaching of modern foreign languages in the primary school

Driscoll, P. and D. Frost, The Teaching of Modern …, 1999

Beyond ABC : investigating current rationales and systems for the teaching of early reading to young learners of English

The premise of this thesis is that the role of the first steps in reading in courses for Young Le... more The premise of this thesis is that the role of the first steps in reading in courses for Young Learners of English (YL) at the beginner stage is a neglected area, with anomalies centred around the fact that ‘words on the page ’are often treated as if they were facilitative from the outset for language work in areas such as speaking while very little support is offered to children as to how to decode these words. Chapter 1 (Introduction) traces the rapid spread of YL teaching worldwide and considers the preparation of teachers for their roles. Materials are discussed as an important source of support and structure for teachers and a case is made for a focus in the main study on systems and rationales for early reading found among teachers themselves or evidenced in published materials. Chapter 2 (Literature Review) discusses relevant issues for systematic support for YL in their first steps in reading English. Areas discussed are: Teacher Cognition, Sociocultural inductions to readin...

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6. Assessment for Learning with Younger Learners: Is Thinking about Their Learning a Step Too Far?

Integrating Assessment into Early Language Learning and Teaching

Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture

Educational Linguistics, 2016

Bringing Information and Reflection Together: A Distance Mentoring and Teacher Development Experience in South Korea

Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education, 2015

Mixing Language Work and Concept Work

English a World Language, 1992

Abstract: Describes how a learning activity called" Find Your Partner" that can be exte... more

チュートリアルで学ぶ新しい「小学校英語」の教え方

1. Introduction: Assessment and Early Language Learning