Currently employed as a Lecturer in the Language & Linguistics department at the University of Aberdeen, I teach (or have taught) on the following courses:
| Level | Course | Course content |
| 1 | English Structure and Use | Click for info |
| 1 | Communication and Language in Contemporary Society | Click for info |
| 1 | English Past and Present (Current Course Co-ordinator) | Click for info |
| 2 | Language in Society (Current Course Co-ordinator) | Click for info |
| 2 | Varieties of English | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Stylistics | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Language Variation and Change (Current Course Co-ordinator) | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Language Change: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Grammatical Attitudes (2019/20 – Course Co-ordinator) | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Perceptual Dialectology (2021/22 Course Originator and Co-ordinator) | Click for info |
| 3/4 | Perception, Prescription, Prejudice | Click for info |
| Msc | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | Click for info |
| MLitt | Fundamentals of English Language | Click for info |
In addition to these teaching responsibilities, I also supervise and mark dissertations at undergraduate honours level for Language & Linguistics, and at postgraduate (MSc) level for the above-mentioned TESOL course. Administratively, I am also the current Undergraduate Programme Coordinator for the Language & Linguistics degree programme.
For the 2020/21 academic year, I was tasked with designing and delivering a brand new undergraduate course for the University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute, titled an Introduction to North-East Scots. Read more here. This now runs in the first semester of each academic year (course code: EF1005).
Teaching qualifications:
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2021)
Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) – University of Aberdeen (2013)
Dawn Leslie 