Dr. Stephen Waller

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor and Academic Advisor and Tutor for The Writing Lab

Centre for English Language Education

Doctor of Education

MA English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics Distinction (King’s College)

Diploma in English Language Teaching

MSc Information Technology

BSc Mathematical Studies

I have taught in the UK, China, Poland and the Czech Republic, and have been a Senior Teacher, a D.O.S. and a teacher trainer. I have also taught in higher education institutions in the UK and China. I completed a full-time MA English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics at King’s College London in 2010 during which I conducted research into the academic expectations, experiences and challenges of Chinese master’s students in the UK. I continued my research at Doctorate level by focusing on the transition from a Chinese university to a British university within China.

At CELE, I am a Writing Lab Academic Advisor and Tutor for Faculty of Business students (Years 2 -4 and Master's students). I am also the module convenor for the Writing Matters course for PhD students.

Academic challenges facing Chinese students in British/Western Higher Education; the differences between Chinese and Western teaching.

Waller, S. J. in press. UK Higher Education: A New Way of Studying and a New Way of Thinking. In P. Knight (Ed.), EAP for the 21st Century: The UNNC Impact. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language
Education Press.

Waller, S. J. (2020). The importance of learning dispositions in the transition from a Chinese learning environment to UK Higher Education. In T. Byrom (Ed.), Meeting the teaching and learning challenges in 21st Century higher education: Universal Design. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Waller, S. J. (2017). Why I should, and why I should not, expect my students to be good at critical thinking. English Teaching in China, (8), 14–19.

Waller, S. (2015). Cohesion Is Still Not Coherence, So What Is? English Teaching in China, 6, 31-35