PhD in Higher Education: Research, Evaluation and Enhancement, Lancaster University, UK

MEd in English Language Teaching, University of Manchester

BEd in Primary Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Norman Williams started his English language teaching career in Madrid in the early 1990s and has subsequently taught at tertiary institutions in the UAE, the UK and China.  He has taught EAP, ESAP and English Composition and has also delivered pre-service and in-service teacher training courses, including the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA.

His research interests include the information literacy practices of second-language student writers at tertiary level. He is also interested in teacher beliefs and their impacts on classroom practice.

Andrew, M., Taylorson, J., Langille, D. J., Grange, A., & Williams, N. (2018). Student attitudes towards technology and their preferences for learning tools/devices at two universities in the UAE. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research.

Williams, N. (2019). Collaborative information literacy development: lessons learned from the evaluation of a collaborative information literacy development activity at a GCC university. INTED2019 Proceedings, 1770–1779.

Williams, N. (2024). Simulations of Academic Research: Practices of Information Use around the First-Year Composition Assessed Research Paper at a Middle East University. 1065650 B, 163 pages. https://doi.org/10.17635/LANCASTER/THESIS/2366

Williams, N., Beachboard, J. C., & Bohning, R. (2016). Integrating Content and English-Language Learning in a Middle Eastern Information Technology College: Investigating Faculty Perceptions, Practices and Capabilities. Proceedings of Informing Science & IT Education Conference (In SITE), 21–29.

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