Dr Tian Yan

Preparation for Educational Research and Dissertation

Personal tutor for postgraduate students

Methodological Workshops for MEd TESOL

I co-designed and co-developed a series of workshops for MEd TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) students on research methods to support their dissertation writing in the Graduate School of Education. 

Workshops I delivered include: 

• how to use tutor’s feedback effectively
• how to develop a good dissertation topic
• how to construct a literature review for a dissertation
• in-depth interview/Interview data analysis
• how to construct a discussion for a dissertation

English teacher

I was a full-time English teacher from 2012 to 2015 in Shanghai China.