Research interests: Educational Linguistics and issues concerning cultural aspects of language learning and use, ‘cultures of learning’ particularly in Chinese contexts, ELT materials development, vocabulary learning, literacy, discourse and narrative analysis.

Martin Cortazzi is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, where his research is currently in educational linguistics and issues concerning cultural aspects of language learning and use. Together with Dr Lixian Jin, he has been researching ‘cultures of learning’ particularly in Chinese contexts. He is also interested in ELT materials development, vocabulary learning, literacy, discourse and narrative analysis. These themes have been applied in many settings; for example, in 2004-6 he was invited to give presentations and workshops for British healthcare trainers and practitioners on intercultural communication, inter-professional education, narrative development, and phonetics and phonology for the Royal Colleges of Speech and Language Therapy, of General Medical Practitioners, of Nursing, and for several Postgraduate Deaneries for Medical Education.

With a substantial background in teacher training and development for both primary teachers and teachers of EFL, EAL, ESOL, Martin has given courses for kindergarten, primary, secondary and university teachers in many international contexts. These include Norway, Eire, Cyprus, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has been invited to give courses and presentations at key universities in China on creative developments in English teaching in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi’an Wuhan, Nanchang, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Nanning, Kunming, Changsha, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Qingdao.