Fiona Copland is an applied linguist and teacher educator who has worked in a number of countries including Nigeria, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK. She has extensive teaching and training experience at CELTA, DELTA and Master’s level. Currently she heads up the TESOL team at the University of Stirling and she has also led Master’s programmes at Aston University and the University of Birmingham, one of which was online.

Fiona supervises doctoral students in a range of subject areas including teacher education, translanguaging, young learners, and English as a missionary language. She has examined over 20 doctoral theses and recently developed the innovative PhD in TESOL Research at Stirling.

Fiona’s research interests include teaching English to children; post-observation feedback; linguistic ethnography and classroom languages, and she has published in all of these areas. Recent books include: The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners (with Sue Garton); Linguistic Ethnography: collecting, analysing and presenting data (with Angela Creese); and The Coursebook and Beyond (with Steve Mann). She is currently working on a manuscript about discourses of post observation feedback with Helen Donaghue, to be published by Routledge at the end of the year.

Fiona has given talks and training sessions all over the world. She won a National Teaching Fellow award in 2012 for contribution to learning and teaching in the UK higher education sector and is currently a member of the British Council English language advisory group.