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Dr. Tim Cornwall
BA TESOL Lecturer
ABOUT
Tim Cornwall, PhD (Adult Education) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (2006) earned a Business Diploma, Algonquin College (1974) along with a BA in English (1978) and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language (1979) at Carleton University before leaving Ottawa, Canada. Tim started his teaching career in Tokyo, Japan where he taught for 15 years, from 1979 to 1985 and again from 1988 to 1997 with a two-year teaching assignment in Austria in 1985 and 1986. He has been teaching in Thailand since 2001, including three years with Shinawatra University Graduate Program, before spending five years with Sasin Business English, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University until the unit closed. Dr Tim has published two textbooks, Speaking First and Take Off with MacMillan Press, and numerous articles on a variety of topics. The Managing Editor, Guide of Bangkok, from November 1998 to February 2000, he also contributed a weekly or semi-weekly article to the Education, Bangkok Post for just over three years.
PUBLICATIONS
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Cornwall, T. & Monroe, Jr, W. (2023). Affinity-seeking Measures Employed by High School Teachers in Thailand, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, Volume 11, Issue 3, 8-16.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Returning to previous lessons. Business Issues 91, Autumn 2015, 34.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Do you need to know business to teach business English? Modern English Teacher, Volume 24, Issue 4, 17-19.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Creating controlled havoc in an ESP writing environment, Bonn Conference Selections, 27th Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany, 26-27.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Why students like us: researching affinity-seeking measures in the classroom. Bonn Conference Selections, 27th Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany, 88-89.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Shortcut to spelling and grammar checking. Business Issues, Issue 90, Summer 2015, 14-15.
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Cornwall, T. (2015). Cheap can be Expensive (Avoid using words that have an unclear meaning). Business Issues, Issue 89, Spring 2015, 26-27.
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Cornwall, T. & Srilapung, V. (2013). Senior Flight Attendants’ English Communication Needs: A Case Study of Thai Airways International. US-China Foreign Language, Vol. 11, No. 4, 286-291.
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Barnett, L., Carter, E., & Cornwall, T. (2013). Management, Culture, and Competence: Researching Cultural Interactions between Management, Staff and Customers in the Thai Tourism Industry, Public and Private Sector: Governance Development and Innovation, SIU International Conference 2013 Proceedings.
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Cornwall, T. (2009). Finding the Right EFL Teaching Job in Thailand, ESL Magazine Volume 71.
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Cornwall, T. (07/2008 – 12/2010). Teacher-to-teacher (95 articles in all). Bangkok Post, Education Times.
Books and Refereed Book Chapters
Research Interests
Affinity-seeking measures
Pragmatics and AI applications
EFL Teacher Training Needs, Expectations, and Outcomes
Department & Programs
-BA TESOL
Education
PhD in Adult Education
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT)
Melbourne, Australia
Master of Education, TESL
Temple University Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Certificate in TESL
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
Business Administration Diploma, Management
Algonquin College
Ottawa, Canada
Courses Taught
Curriculum Development
Teaching Speaking and Listening
Teaching Reading and Writing
Teaching Grammar
Applied Linguistics
Research Skills
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Cornwall, T, (2011) Classroom Survival Tips, English Teaching in Thailand and Myanmar, Robert Kirkpatrick, Ed., SIU, Bangkok 2011, pages 63 to 67.
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Cornwall, T, (2010) Seminar-leader Effectiveness: Teaching Effective Short Courses in the Thai Business Community, VDM Verlag, Germany