Dr. Mahmoud Jeidani

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor

英语语言教学中心

PhD in Applied Linguistics

MA in English Language Studies and Methods

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (ASFHEA)

Before joining UNNC, I had taught EAP/ESP at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and EAP at a number of UK universities such as Southampton, Warwick, and Coventry. My passion has always been to empower students by enabling them to understand and practice EAP, and relate these skills to current and future employability.

I am particularly interested in the relationship between English Prosody and intelligibility, specifically the pedagogical applications of Discourse Intonation to academic listening and speaking skills. I am also interested in examining EAP teachers’ perceptions of intonation and its place in the classroom.

- Jeidani, M. 2014. “Discourse Intonation and Teacher Cognition” Sino-US English Teaching, ISSN 1539-8072, Vol. 11, No. 10.

- (2013) Teacher cognition and Discourse Intonation: paper presentation at the “Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling theory and practice” conference in Konin, Poland.

- (2016) Teaching of Discourse Intonation: a conference paper on how teachers can teach intonation, University of Warwick, Coventry.