Ernesto Vargas Gil

Office: NW905

Phone: +44 (0) 121 204 4115

Email: e.vargas@aston.ac.uk

Twitter: @ernesto_elt

I am an applied linguist, educational researcher and language teacher educator. I hold a PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Warwick, UK). I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and, throughout my career, I have worked in different EFL/ESP/EAP and SLTE contexts. In the UK, I have taught at various universities, including the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, and Imperial College London, where I still collaborate in EAP (STEM) projects. Currently, I am a Teaching Fellow in the English Language in the Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Aston University. I am also the current Coordinator of the IATEFL Research Special Interest Group. My main areas of research interest are Research Methodology, particularly in relation to in-depth qualitative inquiry in educational settings; Bilingual Education and Language Policy; Language Teacher Research, and Language Teacher Education, with a focus on Continuing Professional Development practices in the Global South, particularly from an epistemological decolonisation perspective.

Academic Degrees

• PhD (Applied Linguistics)
• MA (English Language Teaching with a specialism in ESP)
• PGCert (Teaching and Learning in HE)
• BA (English Language Teaching)

Teaching Qualifications

Cambridge English Teaching Qualifications

• DELTA
• ICELT
• CELTA

Professional Accreditations

• Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Professional Memberships

• IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)
• BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes)
• BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguists)
• AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée)

My main areas of research interest are:

• Research Methodology, particularly in relation to in-depth qualitative inquiry in educational settings
• Bilingual Education and Language Policy
• Language Teacher Education, with a focus on Continuing Professional Development practices in the Global South, particularly from an epistemological decolonisation perspective.
• Language Teacher Research, especially bottom-up practices