Dr Dandan (Doreen) Chen
Thesis title: Visual Languaging: Exploring Visualisation in Language and Cognitive Development through a Pluriliteracies Model in Online EFL Classrooms
PhD Education
Year of study: 3
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
- Edinburgh College of Art
- Art and Language Teaching PhD students Committee
Contact details
PhD supervisors:
Address
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, IETL
- City
- University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Campus
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Dandan is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh majoring in Education where her research focuses on the visual methodologies in the teaching and learning of additional languages, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and Pluriliteracies. Her PhD project takes a turn exploring visual approaches used by second language learners to articulate their understanding of the subject-specific content and the academic language to internalize meaning-making and deeper learning.
She has been teaching English since 2013 as she did a BSc in Business English though her academic background is mainly art-based. She did another Bachelor's in Animation followed by two Masters in Illustration and Interdisciplinary Creative Practices by Research respectively from Edinburgh College of Art, derived from which she developed her research topic of combining art with language education.
Personal art portfolio: https://869432330.wixsite.com/illustratedpaints
Qualifications
MA illustration
MSc Interdisciplinary practices by research
BA Animation
BSc Business English