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Roya Alimalayeri

Roya Alimalayeri

  • Position: Lecturer in EAP
  • Areas of expertise: EAP; ESAP; SLA; Phonetics and Phonology
  • Email: R.Alimalayeri@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 1799
  • Location: 314 Level 3 Parkinson Building

Profile

I commenced teaching English as a Foreign Language in 2003. I joined the University of Leeds as a Linguistics Teaching Felllow in 2013 and EAP Lecturer in 2015 and I have been teaching on the following modules since September 2013:

  • Language: Structure and Sound – Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax (Linguistics Department)
  • Language: Meaning and Use – Language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, and Sociolinguistics (Linguistics Department)
  • AEUS (Language Centre)
  • AEPS 1, 2, & 3 (Language Centre)
  • IFY (IPC)
  • Summer pre-sessional courses (Language Centre)
  • In-sessional programme (School of Education)

My leadership roles are as follows:

  • Module Leader for IFY STEM since 2021
  • Module Co-leader for Language for Education and Linguistics since 2024
  • Module Co-leader for Language for Engineering 2021-2023

My other role is the editor and web editor of Language Scholar Journal . 

Responsibilities

  • Teaching and Scholarship

Research interests

My research is focused around second language acquisition and academic English teaching and learning methods formed on theoretical and experimental linguistics. 

I am also engaged in a collaborative multi-method arts-informed research into creativity in EAP 18-months project. 

Conferences: 

Kaur, K. and Alimalayeri, R. 2022. Building Bonds: Constructing Communities. Student Education Conference ‘Belonging and Community’, 6-7 January. University of Leeds.

Alimalayeri, R. Himmelreich, B. Gundarina, O. and Marinkova, M. 2021. “Conline” Teaching: Creative Pedagogy as a conduit to EAP practitioners’ agency. The Language Centre Summer Conference ‘Curiculum Conversations: Agency, Collaboration and Leadership. University of Leeds.

Presentations: 

Alimalayeri, R. 2020. Lessons learnt from delivering a pre-sessional EAP course online. SAAW Online: Language Centre Experiences of Pre-sessional Teaching in 2020, 22 July, University of leeds. 
 

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Qualifications

  • MA in Linguistics and ELT
  • BA in Translation Studies
  • CELTA

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Research groups and institutes

  • Language Centre