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Jane Jones

Dr Jane Jones

Senior Lecturer in Education

Research interests

  • Languages
  • Education
  • Teaching

Biography

Dr Jones taught languages in secondary schools for 16 years and introduced formative assessment and records of achievement into her last school. During that time she worked as Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and was appointed to a full-time post in 1994.

Dr Jones has participated in numerous international projects to provide platforms for teachers and school leaders to share their knowledge and practices of learning teaching and assessment on a cross-national basis.

Her research interests are all aspects of languages teaching and learning, assessment, teacher development and comparative education.

Dr Jones is currently Senior Lecturer in Education at King's. She speaks several languages including:

  • French (advanced)
  • Serbo-Croat (intermediate)
  • Spanish (basic)
  • German (basic)

Teaching

  • MA in Education

Research areas

  • Modern Foreign Languages Education
  • Assessment in Education
  • Teacher Development and Research
  • Comparative Education

PhD supervision

Dr Jones has taken through a large number of doctoral students to successful completion and won the King's College London Excellence in Supervision award in 2017. She has examined doctoral theses extensively in other universities all over the UK on topics as in her profile but also in ELT and in CFL.

    Research

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    Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)

    The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.

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    King’s International Education Research Network

    The King’s International Education Research Network explores key areas of international education.

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    Sustaining teacher quality and retention post-pandemic

    This project examines the impact of the substantial changes and sustained disruption caused by Covid-19 to the development of secondary school teachers.

    Project status: Completed

    Decolonising Language Teaching

    Engaging staff and students in active research, training and reflective practice that deconstructs the content and pedagogy of teaching languages and culture.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    More needs to be done to decolonise language teaching, King's project team says

    Over the course of 10 workshops, lecturers from the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) and the King’s Language Centre (King’s LC) have...

    A group of women teachers and lecturers posing for a picture at the end of the last workshop of the project 'Decolonising language teaching'.

    Decolonising Language Teaching: project latest

    The latest news from the Decolonising Language Teaching project.

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    Outstanding Supervisor Receives Award

    Dr Jane Jones, Senior Lecturer in MFL Education at the School of Education, Communication & Society, was presented a Supervisory Excellence Award on 15...

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    Events

    25May

    Decolonisation & Othering

    Online seminar: Part 1: Zeynep Demir: Othering & Part 2: Dr. Jane Jones: Decolonisation the Curriculum

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Q&A with Dr Jane Jones, trainer of 2,000 MFL teachers at King's

    Dr Jane Jones retired from her full-time role in 2022, although we have been immensely fortunate that she has continued to contribute to our provision this...

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    What I learnt from colleagues in the Czech Republic

    An ECS academic recently spent time at Charles University to collaborate on various projects.

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      Research

      books-1204029_1920
      Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)

      The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.

      International hero 1903x558
      King’s International Education Research Network

      The King’s International Education Research Network explores key areas of international education.

      School classroom student and teacher
      Sustaining teacher quality and retention post-pandemic

      This project examines the impact of the substantial changes and sustained disruption caused by Covid-19 to the development of secondary school teachers.

      Project status: Completed

      Decolonising Language Teaching

      Engaging staff and students in active research, training and reflective practice that deconstructs the content and pedagogy of teaching languages and culture.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      More needs to be done to decolonise language teaching, King's project team says

      Over the course of 10 workshops, lecturers from the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) and the King’s Language Centre (King’s LC) have...

      A group of women teachers and lecturers posing for a picture at the end of the last workshop of the project 'Decolonising language teaching'.

      Decolonising Language Teaching: project latest

      The latest news from the Decolonising Language Teaching project.

      decolonising-language-teaching

      Outstanding Supervisor Receives Award

      Dr Jane Jones, Senior Lecturer in MFL Education at the School of Education, Communication & Society, was presented a Supervisory Excellence Award on 15...

      Sparkler on a dark background

      Events

      25May

      Decolonisation & Othering

      Online seminar: Part 1: Zeynep Demir: Othering & Part 2: Dr. Jane Jones: Decolonisation the Curriculum

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Q&A with Dr Jane Jones, trainer of 2,000 MFL teachers at King's

      Dr Jane Jones retired from her full-time role in 2022, although we have been immensely fortunate that she has continued to contribute to our provision this...

      teacher in classroom with map-1903x700

      What I learnt from colleagues in the Czech Republic

      An ECS academic recently spent time at Charles University to collaborate on various projects.

      prague hero