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Prithvi Shrestha

Lecturer (English Language Teaching)

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Department of Languages

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Prithvi Shrestha currently works as a lecturer in English Language Teaching at OpenELT, Department of Languages, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK. He recently wrote an academic literacy development course called Professional Communication Skills for business studies students with two other colleagues. Currently, as a member of OpenELT, he is involved in a DFID funded project in Bangladesh called English in Action. It is an English language teacher training project with ICT interventions. Together with other project team members, Prithvi is responsible for teacher professional development materials both for distance and face-to-face environments. With two other OpenELT colleagues, he led on the development of English language learning materials for English teachers (EL4T) from 2010 - 2011. He also extensively contributed to research, monitoring and evaluation of the project.

Prior to taking up the job in the Open University in 2006, he worked in various colleges and university in London including Goldsmiths College, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine delivering ESOL and academic literacy courses to both international and home students.

From 2005 to 2007, Prithvi was involved in a British Council sponsored teacher training project in the Palestinian Territories via video conferences. The sessions he has delivered include using stories with young learners (for primary school teachers) and e-learning and ELT materials design (for teacher educators). In 2007, with two other colleagues, he was nominated for the ELT Innovation Award 2007 regarding the teacher training package developed for English language teachers in the Palestinian Territories. See more details here.

Prithvi worked as a teacher educator at regional and national levels in various parts of Nepal while working as an English language teacher between the late 1980s and 2002. ’,

He has been serving as a Co-Editor of Journal of Professional and Academic English, the journal of IATEFL ESP SIG, since 2007.  

 

Teaching Interests

English for Academic Purposes, Academic Literacies, language assessment, language teacher education and ICT.

Research Interests

Language assessment: impact of tutor feedback on tutor marked assignment and learning; dynamic assessment;

Application of sociocultural theory to teacher education

Systemic Functional Linguistics

Research methods in applied linguistics

Academic writing: academic literacy development in under/ postgraduate students, technology in Applied Linguistics.

Mobile teachnology and language learning

Social networking for learning (Learnign space)

 

Current Research

Multimodal teacher video study (English in Action project, Bangladesh)

Alignment between assessment and English language curriculum (English in Action, Bangladesh)

Interactive Oral Assessment project

Publications

Authored Book
Shrestha, Prithvi (2009). Validating Parallel Language Tests: A Study of Two 'Parallel' National Reading Tests in Nepal. Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG.
Book Chapter
Walsh, Christopher S.; Shrestha, Prithvi and Hedges, Claire (2011). Leveraging low-Cost mobile technologies in Bangladesh: a case study of innovative practices for teacher professional development and communicative English language teaching. In: Kwan, Reggie; McNaught, Carmel; Tsang, Philip; Wang , Fu Lee and Li, Kam Cheong eds. Enhancing Learning Through Technology. Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 177. London, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.: Springer, pp. 152–166.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2008). ELT, ESP & EAP in Nepal: whose interests are served? In: Krzanowski, Mark ed. EAP and ESP in Developing Countries: State of Play vs Actual Needs and Wants. Canterbury: IATEFL (ESP SIG), pp. 191–210.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2007). Using Stories with Young Learners. In: Krzanowski, Mark ed. Current Developments in ESP, EAP and EOP. Canterbury, UK [ebook]: IATEFL (ESP SIG), pp. 231–235.
Conference Item
Shrestha, Prithvi (2013). Dynamic assessment and academic writing: evidence of learning transfer? In: Janus moment in EAP: Revisiting the past and building the future, BALEAP Biennial Conference , 19 – 21 April 2013, University of Nottingham.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2013). English Language for Teachers (EL4T): a course for EFL teachers. In: TESOL 2013 International Convention: Harmonising ESP practice in EFL contexts through curricular innovation , 20 - 23 March 2013, Dallas, Texas.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2012). Enhancing teacher professional development using mobile technologies in a large-scale project: a case study of Bangladesh. In: 1st International Conference of ICT in Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Practical Solutions for the Integration of ICT in Education, 8 - 11 February 2012, Marrakech, Morocco.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2012). Approaches to teaching ESP and EAP in open and distance learning. In: IATEFL ESP SIG Pre-Conference Event: Cutting-edge developments in teacher education, materials design, and assessment and testing in ESP and EAP, 19 March 2012, Glasgow.
Shrestha, Prithvi; Fayram, Joanna; Demouy, Valérie; Eardley, Annie and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2012). Innovations in EAP oral assessment: the IOA project. In: 46th Annual IATEFL conference, 19 - 23 March 2012, Glasgow.
Demouy, Valerie; Eardley, Annie; Shrestha, Prithvi and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2011). The Interactive Oral Assessment (IOA) project; using Talkback® for practice and assessment of listening and speaking skills in languages. In: ICL 2011 Interactive Collaborative Learning, 21-23 September 2011, Pieš?any, Slovakia.
Donnarumma, David and Shrestha, Prithvi (2011). Joint construction in academic writing: an exploration of collaborative learning in an open and distance university. In: European Association for Teachers of Academic Writing Conference, 29 Jun - 1 Jul, 2011, University of Limerick.
Das, Sharmistha; Zaman, Shahamin S.; Shrestha, Prithvi; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Rahman, Arifa; Khan, Rubina; Islam, Md. Saiful and Islam, Md. Monirul (2011). Alignment between the English language curriculum and assessment system. In: 5th BELTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011:Learning English in a Changing World: Global Perspectives & Local Contexts, 20 - 22 May 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Eardley, Annie; Demouy, Valérie; Shrestha, Prithvi and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2011). The Interactive Oral Assessment (IOA) Project. In: International Conference ICT for Language Learning, 20 - 21 October 2011, Florence, Italy.
Power, Tom and Shrestha, Prithvi (2010). Mobile technologies for (English) language learning: An exploration in the context of Bangladesh. In: IADIS International Conference: Mobile Learning 2010, 19 - 21 March 2010, Porto, Portugal.
Power, Tom and Shrestha, Prithvi (2009). Is there a role for mobile technologies in open and distance language learning? An exploration in the context of Bangladesh. In: 8th International Language and Development Conference, 23-25 June 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Journal Article
Walsh, Christopher; Shrestha, Prithvi and Hedges, Claire (2013). Mobile phones for professional development and English teaching in Bangladesh. International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 13(2), pp. 183–200.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2013). English language classroom practices: Bangladeshi primary school children’s perceptions. RELC Journal (In Press).
Shrestha, Prithvi and Coffin, Caroline (2012). Dynamic assessment, tutor mediation and academic writing development. Assessing Writing, 17(1), pp. 55–70.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2012). Teacher professional development using mobile technologies in a large-scale project: lessons learned from Bangladesh. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2(4), pp. 34–49.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2011). The potential of mobile technologies for (English) language learning in Nepal. Journal of NELTA, 16(1-2), pp. 107–113.
Shrestha, Prithvi (2008). Book Review: Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol. 1: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu by Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. and Robert B. Kaplan. Language Policy, 7(4), pp. 369–371.
Other
Shrestha, Prithvi (2006). English language needs of learners on the Openings/Level 1 courses in the Open University: a pilot study of tutors’ perspective. EAL SIG (OU), Milton Keynes, UK.