Hamish Chalmers

Hamish Chalmers is course director of the MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. He is also Vice-Chair of NALDIC (The National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum). He was a primary school teacher prior to moving into academia, most recently working as Director of English as an Additional Language (EAL) at an international School in Thailand. His research interests are use of the L1 as a pedagogic tool in the mainstream education of EAL learners, fair tests for causal inferences, and evidence synthesis.