{"id":88,"name":"Paul Breen","url":"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/breen-paul","description":"Having completed my PhD in the University of Manchester in 2014, I am now working for the University of Westminster in London and continuing my research in the areas of teacher development and teacher knowledge. This was conducted through a theoretical lens of TPACK in my PhD studies for a thesis entitled 'Teachers in transition - developing actions, knowledge, and practice in the EAP classroom.' \r\nIn my PhD studies I was supervised by Gary Motteram and Diane Slaouti, and then my thesis was externally examined by Alex Ding, now of the University of Leeds. I am hoping to produce an open access publication out of the thesis through the University of Westminster Press, and to get more professionally involved in the provision of teacher education courses. \r\nAt present I am doing mainly EAP work, and feel that there is much to do in terms of situating EAP and Academic English as core components of academic disciplines, and even in earning the right for academic language courses to be seen as disciplinary in their own way. \r\nRegarding publishing since my PhD, I have been concentrating on books and also on trying to create impact (as deemed important in the REF) in other areas of writing and broadcasting.","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?author=88","slug":"paulb","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9cb2109abbd22a87571d8ada67600ce?s=24&d=wavatar&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9cb2109abbd22a87571d8ada67600ce?s=48&d=wavatar&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9cb2109abbd22a87571d8ada67600ce?s=96&d=wavatar&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}