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My main field of interest is Intercultural Communication in EFL teaching and International Human Resources. Some of my publications in those areas are:
Branigan (forthcoming) Addressing Cultural Bias in English Language Teaching. Cambridge Scholars.
Branigan (forthcoming). Intercultural Sensitivity: How much of the students’ own culture should be included in the lesson? Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw.
Branigan, S. 2022. Intercultural Communicative Competence: Obstacles faced by NESTs, NNESTs and learners. Academic Journal of Modern Philology, (18) 23-36.
Branigan, S. 2022. Which model of English should we teach?. Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 7(1), 98-117.
Branigan, S. 2022. Global ELT coursebooks: A comparative study to examine if there has been any shift in proportion of cultural content in a 1st and 4th edition of English File. CONCORDIA DISCORS vs DISCORDIA CONCORS: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies, (14), 29-56.
P.h.D. Linguistics. (2024) University of Opole, Poland.
M.A. Education with Applied Linguistics. (2010) The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
B.A.(hons) Business Studies. (2008) The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) (2013)
I am an examiner for Cambridge ESOL exams and specialise in exam preparation. A background in business in my previous life in Ireland, along with my business degree, allows me to be a particularly effective teacher in all areas of Business English in addition to General English. My experience in Poland is working in a Cambridge/British Council exam centre teaching General and Business English, a company specialising in corporate English training, also 2 universities (University of Economics, Wrocław. Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa) preparing students for exams and conducting post-graduate Business and Human Resources workshops.
My passion is teaching. I strive to engage and motivate students in a student-centred setting which brings meaning and understanding to the subject being taught. Collaboration, creative problem solving and critical thinking are areas of interest to me. I am particularly interested in the intercultural aspects of both language study and human resources.
At the University of Opole, I run the Cambridge C2 self-study exam in addition to teaching listening, structures, writing, speaking, debating and business/culture courses.
Wydział Filologiczny
plac Kopernika 11,
45-040 Opole
Uniwersytet Opolski
ul. Kopernika 11a
45-040 Opole
Rektorat
tel.: 77 541 59 03
Biuro Kanclerza
tel.: 77 541 60 70
NIP: 754-000-71-79
Regon: 000001382
