Presenters : Bayan Al-Hashmi, Ruaa Hariri, Nada Al-Sheehri, and Amal Basheikh PhD Researchers at the School of Education This presentation reflects the relationship between research and the strategic objectives of Saudi Arabia's Na-tional Transformation Programme, as part of the country’s 2030 vision for educational development in Higher Education (HE). The transformational plan aims at improving...
Presenter : Natalie Donohue PhD Researcher In this talk I will illustrate how I conducted an online, longitudinal qualitative research project, taking into consideration the justification and benefits of such a research design, the practicalities of carrying out data collection, the ethical challenges this design can present, and the limitations of this approach. I will...
Presenting : Dr Ioanna Noula Research Fellow in Childhood and Youth The focus of this paper is how changes in school governance in one state primary school in a city in central Greece have resulted in a significant degree of inclusion for Roma children. This inclusivity runs counter to the disturbing occurrence of the social...
Presenter: Giorgia Faraoni PhD Researcher in the School of Education This presentation will guide the audience through the journey of one UK student of Italian during her Year Abroad and present some of the changes and unexpected turns that occurred over the nine months of her time in Italy. We will look at the student's...
In this presentation, I will talk about a study, in which we examined second language (L2) learners’ perceptions of their writing strategies on an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programme at a British university. The participants of our research were 14 Chinese pre-undergraduate students who engaged in interviews and completed reflective journal entries. The...
This study investigated the effects of individual word frequency, collocational frequency and transitional probabilities on L1 and L2 collocational processing. An acceptability judgment task was administered to advanced L2 and L1 speakers of English. Response times were analysed using mixed-effects modelling for three types of adjective-noun pairs: (1) high-frequency, (2) low-frequency and (3) baseline items....
Abstract: The ‘global coursebook’, along with other teaching resources produced for a global market, has arguably made the life of English language teachers easier by allowing professional-looking materials to be used across different contexts. Coursebooks provide syllabus and lesson materials, meaning the hard work organising and sequencing content has already been done and allowing even...
Language & Culture at Leeds studies connections between how we communicate and the cultures and worlds we create. Central to our research is an interest in what happens when these worlds collide. We ask, ‘How do people of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, worldviews, past memories, present practices and future visions meet and engage with...
Translanguaging: a “Maximalist” Perspective Mike Baynham, University of Leeds Tong King Lee, University of Hong Kong There is a persistent difficulty noted since Whorf onwards in conceiving language dynamically as languaging, when the metalanguage is a language like English with its preference for “thingification”. The approach to translanguaging in our monograph Translation and Translanguaging could...
Emotional Turn in Second Language Teacher Education: Prospects and Possibilities Following the sociocultural turn in teacher emotion research and the broader and deepening interest in affect within adjacent fields of psychology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, I explore second language (L2) teacher emotions from a positive psychology and critical perspective. The former perspective...
