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...
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...
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 Dr Huahui Zhao, whose paper on language assessment has been published in the Language Teaching Research journal.
