Richard Chinn is a teacher educator based between International House London and King’s College London.

Richard has taught English and worked with teachers in a number of contexts around the world in Asia, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. He is an experienced tutor on CELTA and Delta courses and has worked on PGCE courses as well in the past.

Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a reviewer on the HEA’s National Teaching Fellowship Scheme Award. He is an external examiner on MA programmes in TESOL.

Research interests

His academic interests are in language teaching methodology, materials development, classroom interaction, teacher cognition, reflective practice, and language teacher development.

Teaching

Richard works mostly on MA TESOL modules, both lecturing and preparing students for the embedded CELTA course in conjunction with International House London.

In the spring and summer terms, he lectures on the Materials Development and Teacher Education optional modules. He also teaches on the BA Language and Linguistics.

Publications

• Chinn, R. & Lamb, M. (2024). Repositioning the role of supervisors on short initial preparation courses. TESOL Journal, 00, e826. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.826 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tesj.826
• Chinn, R. & Norrington-Davies, D. (2023) Working with emergent language. Hove: Pavilion publishing