Professor Maggie Kubanyiova delivered a keynote lecture at the 9th National Conference on Foreign Language Teacher Education and Development, organised by Central China Normal University in Wuhan, attracting over 3,800 online participants. Her lecture entitled ‘Language teacher motivation as a desire to make a difference: Lessons for teacher education in the post-pandemic world’ discussed her...
Dr Diana Mazgutova has collaborated with English language teaching professionals from The Uzbek State World Languages University, The University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, and Bukhara State University to develop a set of teacher training materials focused on academic writing as part of her involvement in the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF/ESRC) project...
On Saturday 13th November Dr Martin Lamb took part in a 'Top Scientist' webinar programme at Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, giving a talk entitled "Motivating Indonesian learners of English: Insights from theory, research and personal experience". In his talk, Dr Martin Lamb explained how his own interest in academic motivation grew out of his early...
Registration is now open! Join us for the CLER Distinguished Lecture delivered by Professor Awad Ibrahim on 10th March 2021. He will discuss questions of race and language education. Check out our events page for more details and register here.
CLER PGR Rumana Hossain has recently published a paper: Pownall and Hossain. 2020. ‘It’s about dismantling power’: Reflections on co-producing a PGR-led feminist pedagogy workshop. Student Engagement in Higher education Journal, Vol 3 No 1. This reflective piece is the outcome of a co-organized inter-disciplinary workshop “Feminist pedagogy and its links to teaching and learning:...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some students, in some of Indonesia's Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), harbor negative attitudes towards English, prompting resistance to learning the language at individual and institutional levels. This paper reports on an empirical study investigating this issue in three pesantren in Java. Employing Dörnyei’s (2005) L2 Motivational Self System as the main...
Congratulations to Alice Deignan from CLER who is a Co-Investigator on a new £1 million project led by Lancaster University. The project aims to achieve a better understanding of how the public view vaccinations. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the project is called ‘Questioning...
Congratulations to Dr Dogus Oksuz, a Research Fellow at CLER, who has received the Institute for Corpus Research Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. The purpose of this annual award is to recognise and reward outstanding theses in the field of Corpus Linguistics. Dr Dogus Oksuz’s PhD was titled Collocational Processing in Typologically Different Languages, English and...
Congratulations to Dr Huahui Zhao, whose paper on language assessment has been published in the Language Teaching Research journal.
This is the first round of the School of Education PGR Exceptional Achievement Award and we are very proud of our CLER PGRs Chiara Bruzzano Chiara received this award for her academic excellence – her nomination included an impressive list of papers, presentations and awards. Chiara has also prepared and delivered sessions on our...
