讲座题目：Incorporating Action Research into Teacher Development
讲座人：Chris Hastings
主持人：Jenna Thompson
讲座时间：2015年5月29日（周五）晚上19:00-21：00
讲座地点：外国语学院二楼东会议室
【信息链接】 Dr. Christopher Hastings has spent the past decade teaching ESL and EFL, as well as training English teachers in the United States and internationally. He is currently a Senior English Language Fellow at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China. He worked in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as a Technical English Language Instructor while completing his dissertation, “Attitudes & Acculturation: A Qualitative Case Study of EFL Teachers in Saudi Arabia.” In addition to teaching EFL in Colombia, Brazil, and South Korea, he worked in Iraq with US Department of State and the Iraqi Ministry of Education as an English Language Specialist training K-12 English teachers. Outside of the classroom, Chris served as the Educational Programs Coordinator for Manos de Cristo, an immigrant service provider in Austin, Texas, and also led service projects in Panama and Brazil for Alacridad, a nonprofit organization that provided basic computing resources and training to emerging Latin American NGOs. Currently, his main research interests include Second Language Motivation, Storytelling in the Language Classroom, and Food and Cultural Identity.