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Hamish Chalmers is a Senior Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, where he also serves as the Course Director for the Postgraduate Diploma in English as an Additional Language (EAL) and is the Co-Director of the Oxford Education Deanery. He supervises MSc programmes in Applied Linguistics & Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics Language Teaching, as well as DPhil students. His research interests predominantly focus on evaluating pedagogical approaches for teaching children who use English as an Additional Language, emphasizing the use of language as a pedagogical tool for multilingual learners in English medium classrooms. He holds a methodological interest in randomized trials and systematic reviews, advocating for user engagement in educational research for public understanding of science. Hamish actively encourages prospective doctoral students with interests in fields such as EAL, bilingualism, bilingual schooling, international schooling, and instructed language learning to reach out to him for guidance and support.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.