Dr. Chris Tang

Biography

Chris Tang is a lecturer in International Education and Applied Linguistics at King’s College London. He is also a co-founder and coordinator of the Corpus Research Linguistics seminar series. With over 15 years of experience teaching English as a foreign language and completing the Department’s MA in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching in 2009, Chris’s research primarily focuses on the development and use of applied linguistic methodologies and tools in public health communication, risk communication, and language education contexts. He is particularly interested in working within linguistically and culturally diverse environments and engaging hard-to-reach groups, especially those with low literacy levels in English as an additional language. His recent projects include work aimed at improving health communications for disaster risk reduction and examining the role of language, culture, and education in community networks. Chris's teaching includes programs such as BA English Language Linguistics and MA TESOL. His publications include peer-reviewed articles on topics such as language and Covid-19 among ethnic minority communities and corpus analysis in public health communication.

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