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Academic Literacy
We are studying various aspects of the literacies required in higher education, with a view to helping students understand the demands made on them. W ... Read more»
Project staff: Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Literacy
A corpus-based study of split words in Chinese
Split words are a type of constructions in Chinese that consist of two parts which are separable by some interposing elements, though they behave like ... Read more»
Project staff: Anna Siewierska, Jiajin Xu
Keywords: Chinese, Corpus linguistics, Morphology
Adult Learners' Lives
Adult Learners' Lives is a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim is to underst ... Read more»
Adult Learners' Lives
Adult Learners' Lives was a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim was to under ... Read more»
Project staff: Yvon Appleby, David Barton, Rachel Hodge, Roz Ivanic, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Adult basic education, Learner voices, Literacies, Literacy, Practitioner research
Adults learning new forms of writing
This preliminary research, funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, explored the various means by which adults learn to deal with new forms ... Read more»
Project staff: Amy Burgess (Educational Research), Karin Tusting
Keywords: Literacy, Literacy learning, Literacy practices, Writing (general)
Analysis of spoken London English using corpus tools
The project uses anonymised transcripts of sociolinguistic interviews prepared as part the ESRC-project Linguistic Innovators: the English of adolesce ... Read more»
Project staff: Costas Gabrielatos, Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen
Keywords: Computerised corpora, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, English grammar, English language, Grammar, Language variation and change, Sociolinguistics
Anthropology of writing: understanding textually-mediated worlds
This is a project to bring together French and British research on reading and writing. Through a series of research visits and invited talks by both ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton, Uta Papen
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy, Writing (general)
ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators
Translators have access to a wealth of information during the process of translating a text. This includes monolingual dictionaries to examine the sen ... Read more»
Project staff: Roger Garside (Computing and Communications), Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Paul Rayson (Computing and Communications), Nick Smith (external), Andrew Wilson