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Teaching language and Communication, Course Designing, Media and Communication, Critical Discourse Analysis, Climate Change Communication, Eco-linguistics, Occupational Discourses, Academic Writing.

LECTURER FOR LANGUAGES AND MEDIA STUDIES (ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY).Coordinating and conducting lectures for undergraduate students in languages and media studies.Supervising and marking, research, examinations and assignments for undergraduate and post graduate students at Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Conventional universities.RESEARCH and TRAININGCarrying out research in applied linguistics, climate change communication and mediaDesigning training programmes to meet different levels and needs of participants in English for Specific PurposesWord and PowerPoint processing research, teaching and training materials; Coordinating academic and administrative issues in the languages and media studies for Midlands Region.Liaising with the administrative assistant in setting up, venues for tutorials, allocating tutors’ courses to teach and paying them at the end of the semester.Training tutors in research supervision, guidance and counselling; 2002 – 2003: A- Level English literature teacher2003 – 2004: Humanitarian and Development worker with local and international NGOs (Concern World Wide – Coordinator, Christian Care Zimbabwe – Project Assistant and Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe).