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Fiona English
Fiona English is currently an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, where she obtained her Ph.D. She has been working in the field of language, communication and linguistics for many years in both research and teaching and has published books, chapters and articles in these areas. Her latest book, Why Do Linguistics: Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language (Bloomsbury, 2015), shows the relevance of linguistics to an understanding of everyday interactions. However, it is her first book, Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2012), that is most relevant to these issues as it introduces the concept of ‘regenring’ and, by showing how different genres afford new opportunities for student learning, proposes ‘regenring’ as an enabling resource with which students can adopt different perspectives, develop new insights and see new relevance in their disciplinary work.