
Dr Milada (Millie) Walkova
- Position: Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes
- Areas of expertise: English for Academic Purposes; academic writing; grammatical semantics; corpus linguistics
- Email: M.Walkova@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 8116
- Website: Academia | LinkedIn | Googlescholar
Profile
I joined the University of Leeds in 2018 and I have been teaching on a variety of pre-sessional courses of English for Academic Purposes for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I have previously taught English for Specific Purposes (Engineering, Computer Science, and International Tourism), English for Academic Purposes and General English in Slovakia. I obtained my PhD in 2013 under a double diploma programme from the University of Groningen and the University of P. J. Šafárik, and my DELTA Cambridge in 2018. I am also an experienced translator of religious (Bahá'í) texts.
Responsibilities
- Module Leader of pre-sessionals for PGRs
- Language Scholar Journal Manager
Research interests
- academic writing (metadiscourse, cross-cultural rhetoric, and other)
- grammatical semantics, i.e. semantics and its interfaces with morphology, lexicon and syntax (aspect, deixis)
- language teaching materials development
Qualifications
- PhD in English Linguistics
- DELTA Cambridge, with specialism in English for Academic Purposes
- HEA Fellow
- MA in British and American Studies, with thesis in English for Academic Purposes
- PG Cert in English Language Teaching