Rachel Perkins
- Position: Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes
- Areas of expertise: English for Academic Purposes; English for Specific Purposes; General English
- Email: R.A.Perkins@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 3.34 Parkinson Building
Profile
I have been a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds since 2019.
Responsibilities
- EAP Practitioner
- Co-Lead on the General English programme
Research interests
My research interests are in corpus linguistics, the language of mathematics and integrating language and content teaching.
Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project based on a corpus of mathematics lectures. The project aims to explore the language of mathematics and the challenges that it may pose to students whose first language is not English, and how a language focus can be integrated into the teaching of content to improve comprehension.
Publication:
Drury, A., Perkins, R., Sheard, W., 2023. The Lexis of Maths Lectures: The creation of a pedagogic corpus and wordlist from a series of maths lectures. The Language Scholar. 2023(11), pp. 56-87.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>
Qualifications
- Cambridge Delta
- Cambridge CELTA
- BA (Hons) in Classical Civilisation
Professional memberships
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Student education
I teach on general and specific English for Academic Purposes modules, working with foundation-year and post-graduate students. I also teach on the General English programme.
Research groups and institutes
- Language Centre