Christopher Denman

Christopher Denman is a researcher at the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Postgraduate Studies and Research at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He was previously affiliated with the university’s Humanities Research Centre and was also an instructor at its Language Centre, following from English teaching experience at the secondary and tertiary levels in Australia, South Korea, and Japan. He has published in international journals and edited books, in addition to being a co-editor of two volumes dealing with employment and education and English education in the Arab world. He has been involved in numerous funded research projects concerning various aspects of education in Oman, and was the principal investigator on a project that explored issues related to English-medium instruction at the tertiary-level in the sultanate.

Publications

Quality Assurance in English Education in Omani Schools: A Critical Look
Quality Assurance in English Education in Omani Schools: A Critical Look
Christopher Denman, Rahma Al-Mahrooqi. © 2021. 22 pages.
Quality emerged as an important consideration in educational contexts around the world more than three decades ago. However, providing quality education is no simple matter as...
Handbook of Research on Curriculum Reform Initiatives in English Education
Handbook of Research on Curriculum Reform Initiatives in English Education
Christopher Denman, Rahma Al-Mahrooqi. © 2019. 372 pages.
Different regions of the world are making increasing demands for educational reform, especially when institutions are dissatisfied with the level of proficiency of their...
Quality Assurance in English Education in Omani Schools: A Critical Look
Quality Assurance in English Education in Omani Schools: A Critical Look
Christopher Denman, Rahma Al-Mahrooqi. © 2019. 22 pages.
Quality emerged as an important consideration in educational contexts around the world more than three decades ago. However, providing quality education is no simple matter as...
An Evaluation of Preposition Representation in the Omani Basic Education ELT Textbooks: Focus on Grades 1-4
An Evaluation of Preposition Representation in the Omani Basic Education ELT Textbooks: Focus on Grades 1-4
Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Faisal Said Al-Maamari, Christopher Denman. © 2019. 18 pages.
The chapter employed a corpus-based approach to evaluate the representation of prepositions in the Omani Basic Education English language teaching (ELT) school textbooks in...
Explicit Instruction in Western Cultures in the English-Language Writing Classrooms of the Arab Gulf: Pedagogical Perspectives
Explicit Instruction in Western Cultures in the English-Language Writing Classrooms of the Arab Gulf: Pedagogical Perspectives
C.J. Denman. © 2015. 13 pages.
Writing is one of the most complex skills ESL/EFL learners are asked to master. Academic writing in English is often characterised by deductive reasoning, the linear development...
Process vs. Product: Arabic and English Writing Classrooms in Oman
Process vs. Product: Arabic and English Writing Classrooms in Oman
Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, C. J. Denman. © 2015. 17 pages.
Learning how to write has long been perceived as an extremely complex and demanding task. Perhaps as an acknowledgement of this complexity, writing instruction in the Arab world...