Stephen Bax

Dr Stephen Bax is Principal Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK. He specialises in the use of ICT for language teaching, learning and assessment, and also researches into discourse, methodology and teacher education. He has worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and extensively in the Arab world. He has published extensively on the use of ICT in language teaching, as well as on methodology. He has also developed online assessment and teaching materials with the BBC World Service and government organisations.

Professor Stephen Bax is a Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Open University. His research interests include the use of computers in language learning (CALL), the use of computers in language testing (CALT), and areas of discourse including Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA). Most recently, he has been using eye tracking to research reading and reading tests. His 2013 article in Language Testing, the first article on eye tracking in the journal, won the 2014 TESOL Distinguished Research Award. His publications include the British Council research monograph Researching English Bilingual Education in Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, the book, Discourse and Genre (2011, Macmillan), his 2013 book, Researching Intertextual Reading in the series Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, as well as leading articles in the fields of teacher education, CALL and ICT, and areas of discourse. His 2003 article on CALL won an Elsevier prize.