Rob Drummond
email: rob.drummond@manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: The influence of local accent on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers in Manchester.
Supervisors: Maciej BaranowskiMain Discipline area: Linguistics
Research interests
- Variationist sociolinguistics
- Urban dialectology
- L2 phonological acquisition
Please see here for more details: phd.robdrummond.co.uk
Teaching Areas
Currently
- Undergraduate: Phonetics and phonology; syntax; semantics
Recently
- Postgraduate: MA TESOL and MA Ed Tech and TESOL
- Undergraduate: Introduction to TESOL.
- EFL, EAP
Conference presentations
Investigating the influence of local accent on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers in Manchester. The 3rd Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, July 9th 2008, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Evidence of the acquisition of northern vowel sounds by non-native English speakers in Manchester. The 3rd Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 3 July 2008, Lancaster.
Professional biography
MA Applied Linguistics, University of Manchester 2003
Trinity Diploma in TESOL, City College Manchester 2001
Trinity Certificate in TESOL, ULT 1997
BA Hons American Studies and English, UCLan 1995