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Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Materials Development, Writing
Research areas
Teacher Education, teacher wellbeing and emotions, leadership in language teaching, creativity, a loving pedagogy, innovative teaching approaches, teacher professional development and professionalization, reflective practice, curriculum and learning materials, learning spaces, visual research methods
Education
PhD, Language Learning And Teaching, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2018
MA, Tefl/tesl, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2012
BA, Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, United States, 2003
Professional experience
Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2018 - 2024
Visiting Professor, English, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, 2017 - 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Writing, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2016 - 2017
Visiting Professor, English Education, Andong National University, South Korea, 2014 - 2016
Contact
Dr. Vincent Troy Greenier
Professor
PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Vincent Greenier has been a language teacher and teacher educator for nearly two decades and has held positions in the United States, South Korea, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. His main research interests include creative approaches to language teaching and learning, leadership and professionalism in ELT, language teacher education, language teacher identity, and innovative approaches to qualitative research. His current research projects focus on new affective dimensions of teaching, including resilience, compassion, intuition, and loving pedagogy.
Publications
Vincent Troy Greenier, Agni Connor And Ishrat Rehman-feltell. Exploring the role of emotional capital in online teaching: A poly-ethnography of TESOL teacher educators, 2025
Paolo Delogu And Vincent Troy Greenier. Student-teachers’ conceptualisations of culture and attitudes towards transcultural pedagogies and materials in ELT, System: An International Journal Of Educational Technology And Applied Linguistics, 19 March 2025
Vincent Troy Greenier And George Whitehead. Nurturing leadership in language teachers: Exploring the why, what, and how, in pre-service education programmes, Second Language Teacher Education, December 2024
Vincent Troy Greenier. Ethical concerns and considerations for videoconferencing interviews in Applied Linguistics research
Vincent Troy Greenier And Agni Connor. Exploring the wellbeing and identity of EMI lecturers at a UK university’s international branch campus, 15 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2024
Mingjun Huang, Meiru Zhang And Vincent Troy Greenier. Modeling the contribution of self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and autonomy to professional creativity of Chinese EFL teachers. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Journal Of Applied Linguistics, 4 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2024
Vincent Troy Greenier, Jalil Fathi And Seyyed-foad Behzadpoor. Teaching for creativity in an EFL context: The predictive roles of school climate, teaching enthusiasm, and metacognition, Thinking Skills And Creativity, 3 December 2023
Zhewei Zha And Vincent Troy Greenier. Chinese teachers’ perceptions of creativity in the EFL classroom: Advancing a culturally situated conceptualization of creativity. Teaching English Language, Teaching English Language, November 2023
Vincent Troy Greenier. Leadership in the language classroom: Implications for teacher education, The European Journal Of Applied Linguistics And Tefl., November 2023
Jiachen Zhang And Vincent Troy Greenier. The mediating role of academic optimism and positive psychological capital of EFL/ESL teachers on teaching effectiveness, Porta Linguarum Interuniversity Journal Of Foreign Language Didactics, 12 November 2023
Ian Moodie And Vincent Troy Greenier. “I Promised Growing up I Would Not Become a Teacher”: Exploring the Career Trajectory of a Language Teacher through Social Cognitive Career Theory, Tesol Quarterly, 23 May 2023
Julian Chen, Vincent Troy Greenier And Sasha Janes. A netnography of emergent ESOL researcher identity and development in a virtual community of practice., International Journal Of Applied Linguistics, 18 May 2023
Vincent Troy Greenier, Xiaohua Liu And Yangyu Xiao. Creative translanguaging in formative assessment: Chinese teachers’ perceptions and practices in the primary EFL classroom, Applied Linguistics Review, 5 May 2023
Honggang Liu, Lawrence Zhang And Vincent Troy Greenier. Language teacher psychology: New perspectives in multilingual contexts, Frontiers In Psychology, 13 December 2022
Ali Derakhshan, Vincent Troy Greenier And Jalil Fathi. Exploring the Interplay between a Loving Pedagogy, Creativity, and Work Engagement among EFL/ESL Teachers: A Multinational Study, Current Psychology, 5 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2022
Vincent Troy Greenier And Ian Moodie. Photo-narrative frames: Adding visual data to narrative research with language teachers, System, 10 November 2021
Vincent Troy Greenier. Review of the book Language Learning Environments: Spatial Perspectives on SLA, by P. Benson, Iranian Journal Of Language Teaching Research, 15 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021
Peijan Sun, Rui Yuan And Vincent Troy Greenier. Understanding professional commitment change of novice CFL university teachers: An integrated perspective, Journal Of Education For Teaching, 16 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
Jalil Fathi, Vincent Troy Greenier And Ali Derakhshan. Self-efficacy, reflection, and burnout among Iranian EFL teachers: The mediating role of emotion regulation, Iranian Journal Of Language Teaching Research, 2 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
Vincent Troy Greenier, Ali Derahkshan, And Jalil Fathi. Emotion regulation and psychological well-being in teacher work engagement: A case of British and Iranian English language teachers, System, 2 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021
Ali Derakhshan, Ali Malmir And Vincent Troy Greenier. Interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) as predictors of L2 speech act knowledge: A case study of Iranian EFL learners, The Journal Of Asia Tefl, 1 March 2021
Reetta Rantal And Vincent Troy Greenier. Young Finnish adults’ perspectives on using English in different social situations: Exploring the influence of affective factors through photo-elicitation interviews, Language Related Research, 10 May 2020
George Whitehead And Vincent Troy Greenier. Beyond good teaching practices: Language teacher leadership from the learners’ perspective, Tesol Quarterly, 4 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019
Vincent Troy Greenier. The 10C’s of Project-based learning TESOL curriculum, Innovation In Language Learning & Teaching, 11 May 2018
Vincent Troy Greenier. Preparing teachers for the challenges of constructivist teaching, 2 May 2017
Vincent Troy Greenier And George Whitehead. Towards a model of teacher leadership in ELT: Authentic leadership in classroom practice, Relc, 28 February 2016
Vincent Troy Greenier. Using a literature-based approach to achieve ‘The goals of Korean education’: Perspectives from three native-speaking English teachers, Studies In British And American Literature, December 2015
Conference Presentations
Giving Voice to TESOL Leavers: Implications for Professional Development, Tesol International Convention & Expo, 22 March 2024
Advancing a ‘C‐Change’ in Language Education: Transforming CLT with a Focus on Creativity, Best Practices In Second Language Education Conference, 7 September 2023
Language Teachers as Cultural Workers: Promoting Intercultural awareness in the EFL classroom, 5 July 2023
Globalization and Localization in Language Teaching and Learning: Innovations in Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and Partnerships, Henan University, 8 May 2023
Creative Approaches to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Language Teaching, Universidad De Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, 10 April 2023
EFL Teachers’ Translanguaging in Formative Assessment Practices: Innovation and Empowerment in Times of Curriculum Change, Towards Transcultural Pedagogy: Dynamics In Global Eap, 4 March 2023
“I am a language teaching professional . . . now”: Visual narratives of Expatriate EFL teachers’ identity formation, Second Language Teacher Education: Challenges And New Horizons, 15 September 2022
Avoiding over-translation from Chinese to English: The case of ethics application documents, Jiangnan University, 6 May 2022
How Love and Creativity affect Work Engagement in ELT: A Multinational Study, Northeast Normal University, 20 October 2021
Photo-narrative Frames of Career Trajectories: “Picturing” the professional lives of expat English teachers, Visual Methods & Ethnography For Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, 1 June 2021
Using photo-narrative frames to explore EFL teachers' professional identities, Tesol International Convention And English Language Expo, 24 March 2021
The art of the engaged L2 classroom: Integrating the arts and second language learning, On The Border Of Art And Language Teaching In The Multilingual World, 13 November 2020
Exploring “Visual interviewing” techniques in Applied Linguistic research, British Association Of Applied Linguistics, 29 August 2019
Leadership in English language teaching from teachers’ and students’ perspectives, Asiatefl International Conference, 26 June 2019
Creativity, the curriculum, and language learning as complex adaptive systems., 27 August 2016
Using a literature-based approach in EFL classes to achieve the goals of Korean middle school education: Perspectives from three native-speaking English teachers., British & American Languages And Linguistics Association Of Korea Fall Conference, 7 November 2015
A process-oriented framework for creativity in the EFL classroom, Korea Tesol (kotesol) International Conference, 10 October 2015
Is creativity the key to enhancing English education in Korea?, Korea Association Of Teachers Of English (kate) International Conference, 29 August 2015
Constructivist teaching for the 21st Century: Addressing the Challenges, Caes Faces Of English Conference, 11 June 2015
