Biography

Sarah Michelotti has co-ordinated the English Programmes offered by (then) the Department since 2000.  She taught English as a Foreign Language for many years including English for the Cambridge exams, Business English and English for Academic Purposes.  She also has experience in teacher training and was previously Director of Studies for a local private language school.

Sarah holds a BA (Hons) in French, the RSA Diploma in TEFLA and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading.  Her professional interests include spoken language, study skills and discipline-specific English for Academic Purposes.  An important area of her work involves helping students to improve their academic writing skills through analysis of genre-based features of academic writing. This entails running workshops and consultation sessions with students from a range of disciplines across the University.  She is also enthusiastic about developing specialised courses to help students with their English language and study skills in specific departments at the University. 

In her spare time she enjoys the theatre, concerts and visiting art exhibitions.

Research Interests

Spoken interaction

Academic writing

Teaching

Teaches on pre-sessional, in-sessional and degree courses

Teaches on writing workshops for doctoral students