To lead the development and delivery of research in the field of applied English language studies and related areas, including language learning and teaching.

Teaching, supervision of research students and other scholarly activities.

BA, PGCE, MSc, PhD, Certificate in On-line Education and Training.

1976-1983
English language teacher and then Director of Studies in language schools in Italy

1984-1987
Part-time lecturer, University of Aston

1987-2007
Lecturer, Senior lecturer and then Reader in CELTE, University of Warwick

2007 - 
Professor in English Language, Coventry University

• Lexicography and learner dictionary use
• Corpus Linguistics
• The analysis of academic discourse
• English for Academic Purposes
• The new technologies and language learning

Lead researcher for projects involving the development of the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus and the British Academiuc Written English (BAWE) corpus.

Member of the advisory panel for Macmillan Dictionaries, including:

• the Macmillan English Dictionary (winner of the British Council Innovation Award 2004 and the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language book Award 2002)
• the Macmillan School Dictionary CD-ROM and Website (winner of the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union Award for the best use of new technology in English language teaching 2004).

Academic advisor to the EASE (Essential Academic Skills in English) Series of multimedia cd-roms:

• Kelly, T., Revell, R. & Nesi H. 2000 Listening to Lectures 
• Kelly, T., Richards, L. & Nesi H. 2004 Seminar Skills 1: Presentations
• Kelly, T., Sharpling, G. & Nesi H. 2006 Seminar Skills 2: Discussions

Listening to Lectures was specially commended for its ‘exceptionally high quality in the field of educational technology’ at the European Academic Software Awards in Rotterdam 2000, and won the British Council Innovations in ELT Award in 2003. Seminar Skills 2 was shortlisted for the 2007 British Council Innovations in ELT Award.

An overview of the ease project can be seen on the EASE website.

Director of the 'English for International Conferences' component of the Chinese University Teacher Training in English (CUTE) project run by the Language Centre of the University of Cambridge and Tsinghua University in Beijing. CUTE is part of HEFCE’s eChina-UK programme which researches e-learning opportunities in China and the UK.  

Editorial board membership:

• International Journal of Lexicography (Oxford University Press)
• Journal of English of English for Academic Purposes  (Elsevier)
• English Text Construction (John Benjamins) – a new journal starting in spring 2008

Guest reviewer for:

• Applied Linguistics
• Computer Assisted Language Learning
• English for Specific Purposes 
• Learning and Teaching Technology Journal
• Studies in Higher Education
• System

Since 2000

Nesi, H (Forthcoming) Learners’ monolingual and bilingual dictionaries on CD-Rom and the Internet. in: Cowie, A. P. (ed) The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press  

Nesi, H & Rixon, S. (2007) BAAL/CUP seminars 2006: Research perspectives on listening in L1 and L2 education. Language Teaching, 40 327-329 

Nesi, H & Basturkmen, H (2006) Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 11 (3) 147-168  

Nesi, H & Gardner, S (2006) Variation in disciplinary culture: University tutors’ views on assessed writing tasks. In: Kiely, R., Clibbon, G., Rea-Dickins, P. & Woodfield, H (eds) Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics. London: Equinox Publishing 99-117  

Chuang, F-Y & Nesi, H (2006) An analysis of formal errors in a corpus of l2 English produced by Chinese students. Corpora 1 (2) 251-271 

Shamsudin, S & Nesi, H (2006) Computer Mediated Communication in English for Specific Purposes: A case study with computer science students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 19 (4 & 5) 317-339

Nesi, H., S. Gardner, R. Forsyth, D. Hindle, P. Wickens, S. Ebeling, M. Leedham, P. Thompson and A. Heuboeck (2005) Towards the compilation of a corpus of assessed student writing: an account of work in progress. Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series, Volume 1, issue 1

Li, M & Nesi, H. (2004) Exchange Patterns in small-group discussions: a comparative study of Chinese and English discourse in peer group, divergent discussion tasks. The East Asian Learner, 1 (2) 13-30 

Nesi, H, Sharpling, G. & Ganobcsik-Williams, L  (2004) The design, development and purpose of a corpus of British student writing. Computers and Composition, 21 (4) 439-450   

Nesi, H (2004) Review: Language Learning Online: Towards Best Practice. System, 32 (3) 466-468 Nesi, H (2004) Review: Teaching Academic Writing: a Toolkit for Higher Education. RELC Journal, 35 246-247 

Nesi, H (2003) The specification of dictionary reference skills in higher education. in: Hartmann R.R.K. (ed) Lexicography: Critical Concepts: a 3-volume book of readings. Routledge 370-393  

Nesi, H (2003) Editorial: special issue on spoken academic English. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2 (1) 1-3  

Nesi, H & Tang, E (2003) Teaching vocabulary in two Chinese classrooms: school children’s exposure to English words in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Language Teaching Research, 7 (1) 65-97  

Nesi, H (2002)  An English spoken academic word list. In: Braasch, A. and Provlsen, C. (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002 Volume I. Copenhagen: Center for Sprogteknologi 351-358 

Nesi, H & Haill, R (2002) A study of dictionary use by international students at a British university. International Journal of Lexicography, 15 (4) 277-306  

Nesi, H (2002) Review: Research on Dictionary Use. International Journal of Lexicography, 15 (3) 251-252 Nesi, H (2002) Review: Academic Writing Programs. System, 30 (2) 256 

Nesi, H (2001) EASE: a multimedia materials development project. in: Cameron, K. (ed) C.A.L.L. – The Challenge of Change. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications 287-292 

Nesi, H (2001) A corpus-based analysis of academic lectures across disciplines. In: Cotterill, J. and Ife A. (eds) Language Across Boundaries. London: Continuum Press 201-218 

Nesi, H (2000) The Use and Abuse of Learners’ Dictionaries. Lexicographica Series Maior, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Nesi, H (2000) Electronic dictionaries in second language vocabulary comprehension and acquisition: the state of the art. in: Heid, U., Evert, S., Lehmann, E. and Rohrer, C. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2000 Volume II. Stuttgart: Euralex  839-847

Nesi, H (2000) “Dictionaries”, “Hornby, Albert Sidney” and “Reference Works”, entries in the Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. Byram M. (ed) London: Routledge 171-173, 282, 508-510 

Nesi, H (2000) On screen or in print? A comparative study of the use of a learner’s dictionary in book form and on CD-ROM. in: Howarth, P. and Herington, R. (eds) EAP Learning Technologies. Leeds: Leeds University Press 106-114 

Nesi, H & Studman-Badillo, B (2000) The fifth study skill: assumptions and expectations regarding the role of the Internet in British universities. in: Howarth, P. and Herington, R. (eds) EAP Learning Technologies. Leeds: Leeds University Press 1-8.

• One of the organisers of the BAAL / Cambridge University Press seminar at the University of Warwick on the theme ‘Research perspectives on listening in L1 and L2 education’ (with Shelagh Rixon from the University of Warwick and Goodith White and Richard Badger from the University of Leeds). (May 12-13 2006) 
• One of the organisers of the CELTE International Symposium: English in Higher Education in the 21st Century (July 6 2006) 
• Organiser of four BALEAP Professional Issues Meetings at the University of Warwick: CALL: Is it relevant to EAP? (January 1993); Academic Speech Events (February 2001); Vocabulary in EAP (January 2003), Academic Writing Across the Disciplines (June 2007).

Funding for the development of the British Academic Spoken English corpus from The British Academy (2000-2002, Grant reference: SG 30284) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2001–2005, Award Number: RE/AN6806/APN13545).

Funding for ‘An investigation of genres of assessed writing in British Higher Education’ from the Economic and Social Research Council (2004-2007, Project Number RES-000-23-0800), see the BAWE website.