Emily Thornton
- Senior Lecturer
- Email: e.thornton2@bathspa.ac.uk
- School: School of Education
- Campus: Newton Park
Personal statement
Emily teaches Secondary Modern Languages on the PGDE and PGCE course.
Forthcoming publication: Chapter 17 in Mentoring Modern Languages Teachers in the Secondary School eds Molway and Gordon (pub 2025)
Research areas of interest
- Coaching, training and mentoring trainee teachers
- Equality of access to ML in schools post-Brexit
- German teaching in mainstream education
- Lesson planning and teacher autonomy in a ‘workload savvy’ professional culture
- Modern Languages methodologies and philosophies of teaching and learning, specifically the contextual reasons for recent popularity of certain methods
Academic qualifications
- BA (Hons)
- PGCE (QTS)
- MSc
- PGCHE
- FHEA
Professional memberships
- Association of Language Learning
Teaching subjects and areas of expertise
- PGDE (Secondary Modern Languages)
- PGCE (Secondary Modern Languages)
- MA Curriculum Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning, Leadership in Education