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Dr Yen Dang's paper on high-frequency words has been published

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With a number of word lists available for teachers to choose from, teachers and students need to know which list provides the best return for learning? Four well-established lists were compared and it was found that BNC/COCA2000 (British National Corpus / Corpus of Contemporary American English 2000) and the New General Service List (New-GSL) provided...

Dr Harry Kuchah visits Sol Plaatje University to Promote Langauge-Teaching Excellence

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Dr Harry Kuchah attended Sol Plaatje University, Northern Cape, South Africa as a Visiting Fellow to contribute to the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa/Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique's mission of promoting excellence in Social Science Research in Africa.  To read more about the...

CLER Doctoral Researchers at the IAM3 Summer Institute

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Elettra Casellato and Nathalie Czeke will participate in the Inclusive Assessment on Multi-Modal Multilinguals (IAM3) Summer Institute in Stockholm (SE). They are two of eight European and eight North American PhD researchers who will receive advanced training in the assessment of multiple languages in multiple modalities (signed, spoken, written) within a theoretical framework of "translanguaging"...

Postponed - CLER Conversation: Promoting social justice in language classrooms through dramatizing children’s literature - Dr Deniz Ortactepe Hart (Autumn date tbc)

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Due to unforeseen circumstances - this Conversation has been postponed until the Autumn - new date to be confirmed. For further information, and to register, please visit: CLER Conversation: Promoting social justice in language classrooms through dramatizing children’s literature – Dr Deniz Ortactepe Hart – 24th June 2022 : Centre for Language Education Research (leeds.ac.uk)

CLER Conversation: Culture and identity in the learning of L2 pragmatics during study abroad. A longitudinal narrative study - Xiaowen (Sherry) Liu - 15th July 2022

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For further information, and to register for this CLER Conversation, please visit: CLER Conversation: Culture and identity in the learning of L2 pragmatics during study abroad. A longitudinal narrative study – Xiaowen (Sherry) Liu : Centre for Language Education Research (leeds.ac.uk)

Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context - Liu, X., Lamb, M., & Chambers, G. N. (2022)

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Congratulations to Sherry Liu (Xiaowen), Dr Martin Lamb, and Professor Gary Chambers on their recent journal publication in System, Vol. 107, July 2022 In recent years, the connection between learner identity and learning of L2 pragmatics has received more attention in applied linguistic research. Nevertheless, investigations on this topic have mainly focused on the role...

CLER Corpus Linguists Share their Research at Language@Leeds

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  The Corpus Linguistics satellite of Language@Leeds, in collaboration with BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group, organised a one-day conference exploring the Past, Present and Potential of corpus linguistics from interdisciplinary perspectives on 13th of May 2022.     Richard Badger  ‘Transparency and Trustworthiness: A Study of the UK Government’s Press Conferences on Covid-19’  Yen Dang  ‘How Can...

CLER Conversation: Collaborative Relationships in Language Education Research

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Join us for the first online CLER Conversation in 2022! 4th February 2022, 2pm to 3pm; Zoom Click here for Zoom registration link - After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Diana Mazgutova and Kamola Muradkasimova: Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development   This...