Shirley Reay
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Contact details
E: s.reay@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876404
I began life as a secondary English teacher but then moved into
teaching English to non-native speakers where I began to become
interested in the core aspects of language/linguistics. Work in
TESOL took me to Scandinavia where I taught adults from beginner to
Cambridge Proficiency level as well as being involved in initial
(ESOL) teacher training and business consultancy work. After
this, I increasingly focused on business English, materials
production and communications consultancy work both in the UK and
Italy. A brief spell in a British state school before arriving at
York St John refocused my language interests onto education and
having arrived in the Linguistics department at York St John, I
contributed for some years to Initial Teacher Education programmers
(primary) as well as teaching on BA and MA courses within the
Linguistics department. I was later seconded for two years to
work as a KS3 consultant on the pilot phase of the secondary
National Literacy Strategy which included In-service teacher
training. I am currently Head of Programme for the Online MA in
English Language and Linguistics