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...
Warmest congratulations to Natalie Donohue, our Doctoral Researcher, on her new job of Assistant Professor of English Language and Didactics at Volda University College, Norway. The university specialises in teacher training and is located on the west coast of Norway in the town of Volda.
This book aims to address the peculiarities of language learning in predominantly Anglophone contexts. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is the focus of attention, given its potential to meet the challenges faced by teachers of foreign languages in primary and secondary schools. Contributors to the book, writing from UK, Australian and Spanish contexts, consider what...
