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Staff Profile

Dr Navaporn Snodin

Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Communication

  • Email: navaporn.snodin@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences,
    Room 2.24, King George VI Building, Newcastle University
    Queen Victoria Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I have a broad knowledge base in Applied Linguistics and teaching experience for over a decade at every level in university. I also have experience training professionals in Communicating across Cultures. I have expertise in the following:

  • academic migration and mobility experience of international students and staff in Higher Education;
  • culture teaching in English language classroom and materials development;
  • World Englishes (WE), English as an International Language (EIL), and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF);
  • Teacher Education, particularly in relation to incorporating the WE/ EIL/ ELF perspectives into English language teacher education programmes;
  • Blended Learning and learner autonomy.

I have spoken to audiences worldwide on these topics such as in the UAE, Russia, Austria, Greece, Japan, Thailand, the US, and the UK. Since I obtained my PhD in Educational and Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University in 2008, I have retained a strong connection with the university and worked closely with the ECLS staff (with Professor Walsh on HE partnerships with Thailand, with Professor Robson on Newton Fund's Researcher Links and with Professor Young on a Newton Advanced Fellowship project). I was a visiting researcher at Newcastle University in 2014, 2015, 2017, and at the University of Vienna, Austria in 2018, leading to co-publications with staff in both universities. I was appointed Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Communication at Newcastle University in January 2020.


I am a lead researcher (PI) of a number of funded projects, some of which are collaborative international projects funded by the British Academy, the British Council, the Newton Fund, and the Thailand Research Fund. I have developed an international profile on a variety of topics with more than 400 citations (according to Google Scholar). I can divide the topics approximately into 4 main areas: Blended Learning and Learner Autonomy (with publications in the System Journal and the Computers & Education Journal); English Medium Education and Language Education (with publications in Asia Pacific Journal of Education, The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education, Lingua and the RELC Journal); World Englishes (with publications in the World Englishes and Asian Englishes Journals and presentations in the ELF conference); academic migration and internationalisation of Higher Education (with publications in Higher Education, the International Journal of Educational Management).


I was the founder and the sole operator of the www.academicmigrationtothailand.co website, an internet portal to encourage inbound mobility of international students and academics into Thai universities. I engaged the policymakers at the national level, for example, the Bureau of International Cooperation Strategy, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand, to achieve impact.


I am a reviewer for the British Academy's Youth Futures Programme and for Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Computers & Education, Sojourn, Thoughts and Kasetsart Journal.

Teaching


ALC8002 Sociolinguistics (for Academic Year 2020-21)

ALC8009 English in the World

ALC8007 Professional Communication

ALC3011 Working in Intercultural Settings


I contribute to ALC8008 Language and Cross-Cultural Communication.

Publications