Centre for East Asian Studies

Profile

Helen Phillips is Deputy Director for Applied Foreign Languages at the University of Bristol Language Centre. She was formerly Director of the Open Language Programme at London Metropolitan University where she taught French at undergraduate level and extensively on commercial language training programmes. Helen has also taught English as a foreign language in Québec, Canada and France. Helen was appointed to the Language Centre in October 2002 and introduced Mandarin Chinese onto the applied foreign language undergraduate curriculum in 2004. Mandarin Chinese and Japanese language training will form an integral component of the MSc in East Asian Studies from 2005.

Her publications include the textbook French Foundations 1 (Palgrave 2001), the first language series to be written specifically for institution-wide language programmes and now used widely in HE institutions. She is also co-author of En Train de Parler, The Teachers’ Guide, a French language course written specifically for Eurostar UK. Helen has presented a number of papers on the management of language programmes in HE at the National Conference for Institution-Wide Language Programmes.