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Dr Elina Stylianou and two School of Education Postgraduate Researchers, Xuechun Huang and Hongyi Zhao, have recently had a blog post published on the BERA webpage. Titled ‘Why should early career researchers organise an academic conference?’, the contribution shares insights which are based on last year's BAAL Vocab SIG conference, led by Dr Yen Dang. The...
What explains how we learn a second language? A new paper by Dr Thomas Hammond, published in Pedagogical Linguistics, shows the practical benefits of combining competing theories to understand how people learn additional languages. Dr Hammond suggests that instead of treating generative and usage-based theories of second language acquisition as rivals, they should be...
New Book: New Words, New Meanings: Supporting the Vocabulary Transition from Primary to Secondary school This book for teachers, written by Professor Alice Deignan and Marcus Jones, explains the nature of the language challenge students face in early secondary school. It has come out of Professor Alice Deignan's large ESRC project, Linguistic Challenges of the...
What does it take for people to encounter one another ethically when practices, worldviews and imaginations clash? Professor Maggie Kubanyiova's new publication, Listening Without Borders (co-edited by Dr Parinita Shetty) brings together more than 40 academics, arts practitioners and educators to attend to these questions through interdisciplinary encounters. The book invites a new way of engaging...
Dr Taguhi Sahakyan's new proposal for enhancing the quality of research is published in TESOL Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3210. Member checking is one of the key instruments ensuring the quality of qualitative research which is commonly associated with participants' approval of data accuracy. Considering the multiple drawbacks of the traditional member-checking methods, this article presents an alternative...
Dr Diana Mazgutova's open-access article co-authored with Dr Gareth McCray has been published in Emerging Technologies and Writing: Pedagogy and Research special issue of Frontiers in Communication journal. In our exploratory study, we focus on revision as a fundamental part of the writing process that is particularly important in the production of high-quality academic writing. We examine the application...
Drawing upon sequential online surveys and interviews with undergraduate students, this study unveiled the entanglement among accessibility, understanding and usefulness of AC for assessment and learning. It uncovered the different effectiveness of varied ways of tutors introducing AC to students and students’ expectations of how tutors could implement AC in assessment and teaching. It highlighted...
We are delighted to announce that CLER’s Alice Deignan, along with Duygu Candarli & Florence Oxley have had their new book accepted for publication! Please click here for further details.
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...
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...