Chris Banister

Senior Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes

Professional Biography

Chris Banister is a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) with over 20 years’ experience in the field of English Language Teaching. He has taught both in the UK and in Turkey, working in-company as well as at the British Council, International House, private high schools and language schools.

Chris has worked at Regent’s since 2008 and is now a Senior Lecturer in EAP, a Module Leader and an Educational Developer. He is also an External Examiner.

Qualifications

  • 2018 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), Regent’s University London
  • 2015 MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), UCL Institute of Education, London (Distinction)
  • 2002 Diploma in English Language Teaching of Adults (DELTA), International Training Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 1997 Trinity College Certificate in TESOL, Colchester Institute
  • 1996 BA (Hons.) in Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford

Relevant Past Employment

  • 2008-2012 Senior English as a Foreign Language  Teacher, English Language Centre (previously Internexus), Regent’s College, London
  • 2006-2008 Visiting Lecturer, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, London
  • 2006-2008 Business English Trainer, Communicaid, London
  • 2004-2006 Fiat Turkey, English Language Trainer, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • 2002-2006 English Language Teacher, British Council, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2002-2006 International house, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 1998-2002 English Language Teacher, The English Centre, Istanbul, Turkey

Publications

  • ​​​​​​Banister, C. (2023) 'Decolonizing business English: exploring classroom ideologies', ELT Journal, 77(2), pp. 166-175. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccac043
  • Banister, C. (2023) ‘Exploring peer feedback processes and peer feedback meta-dialogues with learners of academic and business English’, Language Teaching Research, 27(3), pp. 746-764. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168820952222
  • Banister, C. (2021) ‘Harnessing learner research agendas to continuously explore EAP learners’
  • needs’, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 51 (May 2021). Available at:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2021.100980
  • Banister, C. and Barkhuizen, G. (2020) ‘IATEFL ReSIG online discussion: Narrative Knowledging’, ELT Research, 35 (Feb 2020), pp. 58-59. Available at: http://resig.weebly.com/issue-35.html
  • Banister, C. and Dikilitas, K. (2019) ‘Teachers Research Online: Beyond Istanbul’, IATEFL Voices (268) (May/June 2019). Faversham, UK: IATEFL.
  • Banister, C. (2019). ‘Bringing the Academic Vocabulary List into the classroom: student lexical investigations’, in S. M. Anwaruddin (ed.), Knowledge mobilization in TESOL: Connecting research and practice. Leiden: Brill, pp. 
  • Banister, C. (2019). ‘Rebuilding practitioner self-efficacy through learner feedback’, in A. Slimani-Rolls and R. Kiely (eds.), Exploratory Practice: An innovative form of  continuous professional development, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-152.
  • Banister, C. (2018) ‘Scaffolding Learner Puzzles in Exploratory Practice: Perspectives From the Business English Classroom’, Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 20(2) pp. 17-33. Available at: doi: https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v20n2.67805
  • Banister, C. (2018) ‘Exploring teacher and learner perceptions of the value of peer-teaching vocabulary: convergences and divergences’, in G. Barkhuizen, A. Burns, K. Dikilitas and M. Wyatt (eds.) Empowering teacher-researchers, empowering learners, Faversham, Kent, UK: IATEFL, pp. 121-128.
  • Banister, C. (2016). ‘The Academic Word List: Exploring teacher practices, attitudes and beliefs through a web-based survey and interviews.’ Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 4 (2), pp. 309-325. Available at: http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap/article/view/380
     

Research Interests

  • Practitioner Research/Exploratory Practice
  • Peer feedback
  • Learner feedback and evaluations of the classroom experience
  • Second language vocabulary learning and vocabulary lists for the teaching of academic/business English
  • English as a global lingua franca

Professional Affiliation(s)/Accreditation

  • 2020 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 
  • 2018-20 IATEFL ReSIG Committee Member and Online Discussion Moderator
  • 2015 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • 2013 British Association of Lecturers of English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP)

Teaching & Course Development

  • Learning Perspectives
  • Connect Advanced Business English
  • Connect Business English Professional Writing
  • English for Academic purposes (Undergraduates)
  • Writing for Success at University
  • Academic Language and Literacies