Jon Roberts PhD

Publications

Books

Roberts J. 2008 Wood Work 1. (limited edition). Designed and made by Joe Thompson and Jon Saunders, Typography Department, University of Reading
Roberts J. 1998 Language Teacher Education. London : Arnold

Weir C.J. and Roberts J.

1994 Evaluation in ELT. Oxford : Blackwell
Burton J., Weir C. and Roberts J. 1993   Evaluation of a Baseline Study: English Language Teaching Nepal. London : Overseas Development Administration
Roberts J. (ed) 1990 Initial Training and the First Year in School Workpapers 1, CALS, University of Reading
Roberts J (ed) 1989 Proceedings: The Third EFLTED Seminar Reading : British Council/CALS
Roberts J. 1985 Steps To Fluency. London : Prentice Hall
Bai B, Slater S, Roberts J 1980 Successful English 1. London : Macmillan

Davies P, Roberts J., Rossner R

1975 Situational Lesson Plans. Mexico City : Editorial Macmillan de Mexico
 

Doctoral Thesis

Roberts J. 2003 Personal and Professional Identity Re-Construction of Young Mature Student-Teachers in the Context of a PGCE Course. Unpublished PhD thesis, Institute of Education , University of Reading
 

Book Chapters

Cabaroglu N and Roberts J.

 

Roberts J.

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2000

Skype and the Linguistic and Cultural Professional Education of Undergraduate Students in Turkey. In Gueldry M. (ed) Languages Mean Business: Integrating Languages And Cultures for the Professions. The Edwin Mellen Press

Self-Directed Classroom Inquiry by Teachers: Known Benefits, an Assessment of Criticisms and Implications for Teacher-researcher Activities. In Mathew R., Eapen L. and Tharu J. (eds.) The Language Curriculum: Dynamics of Change. Volume 1. The Outsider Perspective. Chennai: Orient Longman Ltd.

Roberts J. 2000 Further Reflections: The Validity of Teacher Curriculum Inquiry as a Form of Educational Knowledge. In Mathew R., Eapen L. and Tharu J. (eds.) The Language Curriculum: Dynamics of Change. Volume 1. The Outsider Perspective . Chennai:Orient Longman Ltd
Roberts J. 1999 Culture as Octopus: the "diversity" view". In Working Papers in TEFL vol.2 Paran A. (ed.) Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Reading
Weir C. and Roberts J. 1991 Evaluating a Teacher Training Project in Difficult Circumstances. In Sarinee Anivan (ed. ) Issues in Language Programme   Evaluation in the 1990's . Anthology Series 27 SEAMEO Regional Language Centre
Roberts J. 1991 The Silent Way . In Moderne Sprachlehrmethoden Theorie und Praxis. Batz R. and Bufe W. (eds) Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
Porter D. and Roberts J. 1987 Authentic Listening Activities. In Methodology in TESOL. Long M. H. and Richards J. C. (eds.) New York, London : Newbury House
Roberts J. 1987 Analyzing Language Teachers' Activities. In Training Foreign Language Teachers: Problems and Solutions, Triangle Six. Paris : Didier Erudition
Roberts J. 1986 Transcript Analysis as an Essential Complement to Observation. ETIC Special Issue 1 London : British Council
Roberts J. 1983 Priorities in Disseminating a Communicative Syllabus. In Johnson K. and Porter D. (eds.) Perspectives in Communicative Language Teaching. London : Academic Press
Roberts J. 1982

Teaching Functional Materials: Two Practical Problems. In Johnson K. Communicative Syllabus Design and Methodology. Oxford : Pergamon

 

Articles

Roberts J. and Graham S.

 

Graham S. and Roberts J

2008

 

 

2007

Agency and Conformity in School-based Teacher Training. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24 pp. 1401-1412

 

Student-teachers' perspectives on positive and negative social processes in school. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice 13. 4, (August)

Roberts J, Howell, B., Richards R., and Slaght J. 2007

Students' perception and differentiation of assessment during the Centre for Applied Language Studies pre-sessional programme: a pilot study report (January to December 2006)

www.rdg.ac.uk/cdotl/teaching/tldf/ CALS%20Case%20Study%20Complete.pdf

Roberts J. 2006 The personal and social meaning of becoming a qualified teacher: participants' voices. English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED), Volume 9 (Winter 2006), pp. 9-20. Also available: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elted
Roberts J 2005 The Personal Meaning of a New Public Role: Becoming a Modern Languages Teacher. In English Spring 2005. Portugal: The British Council

Cabaroglu, N., Gömleksiz, M., and Roberts, J.

6-9 Temmuz 2004 Soru sorma ve hata düzeltme: üniversite ögretim elemanlari ve ögrencileri üzerinde bir çalisma Inönü Üniversitesi, 13. Ulusal Egitim Bilimleri Kurultayi, Malatya. (6-9 July 2004 - Asking questions and correcting errors: a study on university lecturers and students. 13. National Educational Sciences Congress, Inonu University, Malatya)
Cabaroglu N. and Roberts J. 2000 Development in student teachers' pre-existing beliefs during a one-year P.G.C.E. programme. System 28.3
Roberts J. 1999 Personal Construct Psychology as a Framework for Research into Teacher and Learner Thinking . Language Teaching Research Journal 3.2
Sendan F. and Roberts J. 1998 Orhan: A Case Study in the Development of a Student Teacher's Personal Theories. Teachers and Teaching 4.2
Roberts J 1996 Interpretation of Critiques of Action Research: a constructivist perspective . Proceedings CBSE-CIS Conference. Mathew R. and Eapen L. (eds.) Hyderabad : CIEFL   
Roberts J, Sendan F. and Saka R. 1996 Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) as a framework for inquiry into the perceptions of individual EFL teachers and learners: the experience of 2 PhD candidates. In Proceedings: University of Leicester School of Education Research Conference. Leicester: University of Leicester  
Roberts J. 1993 Review, Second Language Teacher Education. Richards J.C. and Nunan D. (eds.) 1990 Cambridge : C.U.P. In English Language Teaching Journal, April
Roberts J. 1993 Evaluating the Impacts of Teacher Research. System 21.1
Roberts J. 1988

Research into Teacher Education: work in progress. BCJEAA Bulletin 1 Tokyo : British Council

Roberts J. 1983 Teaching with Functional Materials: the problem of stress and Intonation. English Language Teaching Journal 37.3
Roberts J. 1982 Route Planning. Forum 20.1
Roberts J. 1980 Appropriate Speaking Through Cue Cards. English Language Teaching Journal 34.4
 

Education and Training Materials: Restricted Distribution

Roberts J. 2005 "Making the most of main block practice: student-teachers' views" Training Resource, Institute of Education, University of Reading
Roberts J. 2002 "Analysis of Qualitative Data" In Essential Research Methods (Part D) PhD Training Programme, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences University of Reading
University of Reading 2001 Evaluation in Language Education MATEFL Distance Module
University of Reading 2000 Teacher Education MATEFL Distance Module
Roberts J. 1991 Analyzing Observation Data: Guidelines (Guinea) London: Overseas Development Administration
Roberts J. and Weir C. 1989 Observer's Manual: O.D.A. Nepal Baseline Study. London: Overseas Development Administration

Conference Papers 2006

Howell B, J Roberts and J Slaght

November 2006

Pre-sessional Students' Differentiation of Assessments. Language Testing Forum 2006 University of Reading

Jon Roberts September 2006

Overseas students’ differentiation of their assessments during a  language and study skills programme: a preliminary study

(with Bruce Howell, Ros Richards and John Slaght, Project Team, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Reading) BAAL/IRAL Conference 7-9th September, University College Cork, Ireland
Jon Roberts with Cabaroglu N September 2006 Using SKYPE to Enhance the Education of  a Group of Turkish Student- Teachers BAAL/IRAL Conference 7-9th September, University College Cork, Ireland

Roberts J and

Cabaroglu N

May 2006 Using SKYPE to Enhance the Education of Non-native Speaker Student-teachers. BAAL-CUP Seminar  "Research Perspectives on Listening in L1 and L2 Education" University of Warwick