Athena Han

Student Engagement Officer; English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor

Centre for English Language Education

FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Distinction), University of Liverpool, UK

CELTA, York Language Centre, UK

MA in TESOL (Distinction), University of York, UK

BA in English Studies, Shanghai

Athena started teaching English in 2010, beginning with General English in Shanghai and later in York, England. Before joining UNNC in September 2017, she was teaching undergraduates Academic English for two years at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou.   Athena is also a trained yoga instructor and mindfulness coach. She has been facilitating lunch-time mindfulness practices to promote wellbeing for UNNC staff and students in the last few years. 

EAP

Reading and Writing in Academic Contexts (RWAC)

English in Specific Academic Contexts (ESAC)

Oral Communication Skills (OCS)

Athena's MA dissertation focused on pragmatic transfer between EFL learners’ L1 pragmatic knowledge and their L2 realisation of speech acts. She is also interested in student engagement and learner motivation in the context of EAP.