Dr Salmah Yaakob

EAP Teaching Fellow

Contact details

Email: s.b.yaakob@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham International Academy
Priorsfield
Edgbaston Park Road
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Salmah Yaakob is a Teaching Fellow in English for Academic Purposes at the University of Birmingham. She has worked in the field of English language education for over 20 years in the West Midlands.

Qualifications

PhD in English (University of Birmingham, UK) 2014

MA in English for Specific Purposes (University of Birmingham, UK) 2002

BEd (Hons) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (University of Warwick, UK) 2001

CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership (Chartered Management Institute) 2024

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (Advance HE) 2021

CMI Level 3 Diploma in Principles of Management and Leadership (Chartered Management Institute) 2022

Certificate in Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) (Birmingham City University, UK) 2010

CELTA (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations) 2004

Biography

My career is deeply rooted in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), focusing on curriculum development and assessment for university foundation and postgraduate programs. In previous leadership roles at a private international foundation provider, I supported English Programme Leaders in designing and delivering effective EAP curricula. At the University of Birmingham, I have taught on the pre-sessional, in-sessional and foundation programmes. I developed the credit-bearing "Academic English for Engineers" module. My PhD research culminated in the Lecture Introduction Framework, a pedagogical tool created to enhance students’ understanding of academic lectures, reflecting my interests in Corpus Linguistics and Genre Analysis.

Teaching

Birmingham Foundation Pathways Academic English & Study Skills

Presessional EAP programmes