Jean Conteh

Jean Conteh worked in multilingual contexts for her whole career, first as a primary teacher and teacher educator in different countries and then as an academic. She was a Senior Lectureship at the University of Leeds from 2007 to2018, where she developed and taught a successful part-time Master's course for teachers. She has published many books, chapters and articles for different audiences, including The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education, (Multilingual Matters, 2014) and The EAL Teaching Book (third edition, Sage, 2019). Her edited book, Researching Education for Social justice in Multilingual Settings (Bloomsbury, 2017) was written in collaboration with her former PhD students.