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Centre for Research in Language Education (CRILE)
Foreign language reading for academic purposes
This empirical study looked into the relative contribution of three factors to academic reading: academic language knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: English for academic purposes EAP, Language proficiency, Language testing
Identifying Best Practice in ELT INSET
In-service teacher training (INSET) for English language teachers is an important but often relatively ineffective aspect of large-scale English langu ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Waters
Keywords: Teacher learning in language teaching
Language, Educational Efficiency and Economic Outcomes (Le3o)
In the language testing sub-project of Le3o we investigated the development process of test materials for profession-oriented education in the first l ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language education, Language testing
Language learning motivation in Chile
In this project we investigated the language learning motivation of three cohorts of learners of English in Chile: secondary school students, universi ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Special education needs in language teaching and learning
In this age of globalization people who do not speak a second or a foreign language are at a serious disadvantage in the job market and sometimes even ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Language teaching research, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition, Special education needs
Tasks and assessing L2 listening comprehension
In this funded research project, we are investigating the relationships between text characteristics of task input, task difficulty, and test takers' ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
Tasks, proficiency, working memory and assessing L2 listening comprehension
This funded project explores the effect of a number of variables on L2 listening difficulty, in relation to L2 proficiency. More specifically, we inve ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
The role of inter-cultural contact in motivation
In this project we investigated the role of inter-cultural contact in the motivation of Hungarian primary school children. We used both a nation-wide ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Motivation, Second language acquisition
The role of working memory and language aptitude in second language acquisition
in this non-funded project we investigated the role of working memory and language aptitude in intensive language learning in Hungary. We correlated w ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Memory, Metalinguistic knowledge and foreign language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition
Corpus Research Group (CRG)
Computer programming for Linguistics
An effort to enhance teaching of computer-programming skills to PhD students in Linguistics and English Language. ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Computerised corpora, Computer programming for the arts, Computing, Computing in the Humanities, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Humanities computing, Language, Linguistics
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces
This ESRC funded seminar series (RES-451-26-0731)which ran from 2009-10 considered the digital literacy practices taking place in virtual online space ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Children, Digital technologies
Language Testing Research Group (LTRG)
Foreign language reading for academic purposes
This empirical study looked into the relative contribution of three factors to academic reading: academic language knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: English for academic purposes EAP, Language proficiency, Language testing
Language, Educational Efficiency and Economic Outcomes (Le3o)
In the language testing sub-project of Le3o we investigated the development process of test materials for profession-oriented education in the first l ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language education, Language testing
Tasks and assessing L2 listening comprehension
In this funded research project, we are investigating the relationships between text characteristics of task input, task difficulty, and test takers' ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
Tasks, proficiency, working memory and assessing L2 listening comprehension
This funded project explores the effect of a number of variables on L2 listening difficulty, in relation to L2 proficiency. More specifically, we inve ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT)
Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety
The project examines the role of ethnic minority English in driving forward linguistic innovation in the capital on the levels of phonetics, grammar a ... Read more»
Project staff: Jenny Cheshire (external), Sue Fox (external), Paul Kerswill, Arfaan Khan (external), Eivind Torgersen
Keywords: Adolescent, English grammar, English language, English phonetics, Language variation and change, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Syntax
Phonological levelling, diffusion & divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
The project, coordinated by Dr Kevin Watson and Professor Paul Kerswill, will investigate the roles of and interaction between linguistic and non-ling ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Kerswill, Kevin Watson
Keywords: English phonetics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
Computer programming for Linguistics
An effort to enhance teaching of computer-programming skills to PhD students in Linguistics and English Language. ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Computerised corpora, Computer programming for the arts, Computing, Computing in the Humanities, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Humanities computing, Language, Linguistics
CORGRAM: Corpus-based grammar in contrast
The CORGRAM project is a quantitative investigation into the distributional properties of grammatical categories associated with nouns and verbs in th ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Ram Lohani, Olga Mudraya
Keywords: Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, European languages, Grammar, Grammatical theory and description, Language, Linguistics, Linguistic typology, Multilingual corpora, Quantitative linguistics, South Asia
CQPweb
CQPweb is a new web-based corpus analysis system. It provides a BNCweb-like interface to the IMS Corpus Workbench system. This interface is compatible ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Language, Quantitative linguistics