Dr Maria Dasli
Lecturer in Languages and Intercultural Communication
School of Marketing, Tourism & Languages
Contact details
Room: 4/14, Craiglockhart Campus
Tel: +44 (0) 131 455 4527
Email: m.dasli@napier.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA English Language Teaching (2002; University of Stirling)
MSc Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2004; University of Stirling)
MA Sociolinguistics (2005; University of Essex)
PhD Education (2008; University of Exeter).
Areas of Expertise
Intercultural communication, Area Studies, Cultural Studies, British Studies for international students, sociology (with particular reference to the Birmingham school paradigm), identity, social psychology, immigration, critical theory, hermeneutics, anthropology/ethnography, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics.
Brief Biography
Dr Maria Dasli is a Lecturer in Languages and Intercultural Communication in the School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages. Prior to her arrival at Edinburgh Napier she worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Exeter where she also completed her PhD in Education. Before that she was employed as a language teacher of English and Greek both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Her research primarily focuses on Area Studies and Intercultural Communication for British students who spend their third year of academic study in the country the language they learn is largely spoken as well as international students who attend British Studies modules.
She has also completed other research projects which focus on the development of Intercultural Competence with regard to international students who reside in Scotland for an extended period of time as well as Albanian immigrants in Greece.
Key Research Publications
MacDonald, M. N. & Dasli, M. (under review). The Intercultural Reader: Process or Response? Journal of Literary Theory.
MacDonald, M. N. & Badger, R. & Dasli, M. (2006). Authenticity, Culture and Language Learning. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(3&4):250-261.
Conference Papers
2008
“Re-Imagining Intercultural Dialogue through British Studies: A Way Forward?”. International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication. Ninth Annual Conference, “Faith, Hospitality and Shopping: Re-Imagining Intercultural Dialogue”, 31 Oct. – 2 Nov., 2008, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
“An Intercultural Journey into the Past, the Present and the Future”. International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. 42nd Annual International Conference and Exhibition, 7-11 April, 2008, University of Exeter, UK.
2007
“Meaning-Making and Self-Making in Intercultural Contexts” (with Malcolm MacDonald). Unpublished paper delivered at the Annual Staff/Student Research Conference, 12th May, 2007. School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, UK.
2006
“Meaning-Making and Self-Making in Intercultural Contexts” (with Malcolm MacDonald). International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication. Seventh Annual Conference, “Culture and Context”, 1-3 December, 2006, Passau, Germany.
2005
“Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: A Study of Albanian Immigrants Interacting with a Greek Native Speaking Employer”. International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication. Sixth Annual Conference, “Europe Inside Out”, 9-11 December, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.
“Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Albanian Immigrants in Greece”. Unpublished paper delivered at the Annual Staff/Student Research Conference, 10th May, 2005. School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, UK.