Joseph SiegelProfessor
About me
I teach in the English Department with a special emphasis in teacher education, where my classes focus mainly on linguistics, language teaching pedagogy, teacher proficiency, and classroom practices. I have also taught courses on pragmatics, classroom interaction, research methodology, and action research for the language classroom.
I am currently Principal Investigator for the ReMoDEL project, which focuses on student listening comprehension in university classes and is funded by the Swedish Research Council. This project aligns with my broad research interest, which is the relationship between spoken output, listening comprehension, and learning. In educational contexts, this typically means the ways a teacher communicates knowledge to students and how students make sense of that input.
I have also led several research projects on language teaching pedagogy, including the ways in which note-taking is conceived and taught in the L2 classroom and how L2 learners develop spoken pragmatic knowledge and abilities. I have published extensively in leading journals in language education and second language acquisition, including ELT Journal, The Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Language Teaching.
I co-edited a collection of works titled “International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT” with Professor Anne Burns, University of New South Wales, Australia and my book Developing notetaking skills in a second language: Insights from classroom research was released in 2021. My latest book is Teaching English in Secondary School: A handbook of essentials (Studentlitteratur, 2022).
I received a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Aston University, UK. My doctoral thesis focused on the teaching of listening strategies in second language (L2) education.
