Philip Hood

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  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
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Biography

Philip Hood works in the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities in the School of Education . His major current role is that of Course Director of the National SCITT in Outstanding Primary Schools (a School-based Initial Teacher Training course, hosted by the University). He is involved in generic primary education training activities within the programme and also works with mentors within the partnership. He is currently exploring the nature and role of resilience amongst beginner teachers and is collaborating in this with the directors of the School's secondary ITE programmes. In the field of primary education he is best known as a researcher and curriculum developer in the curriculum area of Modern Languages. He has co-ordinated two primary languages projects, in Birmingham and in Nottingham and has taught German and French in Nottingham City primary schools. The Nuffield Foundation funded Partnership project with Nottingham City LEA ended in July 2004 and generated a bank of support material (topic boxes) for teachers wishing to introduce French and Spanish into the curriculum. This focus built on his work in the field of modern languages secondary education where he led three modern languages departments in large all-ability comprehensive schools. He also spent a year as an Advisory Teacher in Birmingham , supporting the preparations for the implementation of the National Curriculum. Between 1998 and 2008 he worked on the innovative BILD (Bilingual integration of languages and disciplines) module which trained teachers for bilingual section teaching of Geography, History and Science through French and German in the primary and secondary sectors. During this time he also coordinated the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) MA, and worked extensively with primary and secondary teachers from Catalunya, Spain, supporting their development of CLIL modules. He now teaches on the Learning through an Additional Language (EAL) module on the MA in Education. Philip Hood currently also acts as a supervisor for research students working for MPhil and PhD degrees in the following areas: foreign language learning by young learners; the foreign language reading process/strategies; content and language integrated learning in theory and practice.

Research Summary

My main research interests are as follows: language learning in primary schools focusing on the discourse of content-led language classrooms and pupil attitudes; second and foreign language reading… read more

Selected Publications

• COYLE, D and HOOD, P. AND MARSH, D., 2010. Content and Language Integrated Learning Cambridge University Press.
• HOOD, P. AND TOBUTT, K., 2009. Modern Languages in the Primary School Sage.
• ABDUL RAHIM, F and HOOD, P. AND COYLE, D., 2009. 'Becoming Experts': Learning through Mediation Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction. 6, 1-21
• HOOD, P., 2008. What do we teachers need to know to enhance our creativity?: A report on a pilot project into Primary School pupils’ perceptions of their identities as learners. Education 3-13. 36(2), 139-151

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Philip is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. His research supervision areas include:

• early language learning
• content and language integrated learning (CLIL) for young learners
• the foreign language reading process, with special reference to the use of think-aloud protocols in revealing the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved
• the use of reading strategies by learners of foreign languages
• pupils' perceptions of their identities as learners (primary age group)

Research proposals: please email Philip if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

Current Research

My main research interests are as follows: language learning in primary schools focusing on the discourse of content-led language classrooms and pupil attitudes; second and foreign language reading processes; primary age pupils' learning dispositions; the development of resilience in beginner primary teachers.

Past Research

My doctoral research was into the attitudes and processes associated with adolescent foreign language learners. This used think-aloud protocols and strategy coding and compared individual and collaborative reading.

Future Research

Classroom discourse in the EYFS and primary phases - a broadening of the focus on content-centred language learning as a context into the wider setting of using language to learn - this may be L1, EAL or a second or foreign language.

• COYLE, D and HOOD, P. AND MARSH, D., 2010. Content and Language Integrated Learning Cambridge University Press.
• HOOD, P. AND TOBUTT, K., 2009. Modern Languages in the Primary School Sage.
• ABDUL RAHIM, F and HOOD, P. AND COYLE, D., 2009. 'Becoming Experts': Learning through Mediation Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction. 6, 1-21
• HOOD, P., 2008. What do we teachers need to know to enhance our creativity?: A report on a pilot project into Primary School pupils’ perceptions of their identities as learners. Education 3-13. 36(2), 139-151
• HOOD, P., 2006. Can early foreign language learning contribute to the shared emotional and motivational landscape of a primary school? Pastoral Care in Education. 24(4), 4-12
• HOOD, P., 2003. Differentiation in the reading classroom. In: JIMÉNEZ RAYA, M. and LAMB, T., eds., Differentiation in the modern languages classroom. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 83-102
• HOOD, P., 2003. Curriculum Models for Modern Foreign Language Learning in Use in UK Primary Schools.
• HOOD, P., 2000. A Reading of Autonomy: Evidence from British Secondary School Modern Foreign Language learners on the role of Reading Tasks in their Learning. In: Learner Autonomy, Teacher Autonomy: Future Directions Longman Group Ltd, Harlow, Essex, UK. 37-47
• HOOD, P., 2000. Logging on to Learning: ICT, Modern Languages and Real Communicative Classrooms?. In: New Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Modern Languages Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, England. 124-137
• HOOD, P., 2000. The potential contribution of encyclopaedic foreign language CD-ROM packages to the acquisition of language and knowledge ReCall. VOL 12(PART 2), 143-156
• HOOD, P., 1996. Early foreign language reading competence: some issues and evidence Language Learning Journal. VOL 13, 16-18
• HOOD, P., 1994. Primary foreign languages - the integration model: some parameters for research. Curriculum Journal. 5(2), 235-247