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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

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

CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English

We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis ... Read more»

Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay (English and Creative Writing), Ian Gregory (History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Andrew Hardie, Liz Oakley-Brown (English and Creative Writing), Stephen Pumfrey (History), Paul Rayson (Computing and Communications), Naomi Tadmor (History)
Keywords: Automatic content analysis, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Discourse analysis, Early modern England, Early modern English, Historical and diachronic corpora, History of English, History of experimental science, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, History of the Book, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Language change, Linguistics, Natural philosophy, Religious history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century literature, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Theatre history

Diagnosis of reading proficiency in a second or foreign language

The ability to read in a second or foreign language is important for business people, academic researchers, politicians and professionals in many fiel ... Read more»

Project staff: J. Charles Alderson

DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity EU-Sixth-Framework Integrated Project (IP)

DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity EU-Sixth-Framework Integrated Project (IP) ... Read more»

Project staff: Bernhard Forchtner, Michal Krzyzanowski, Ruth Wodak

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 and Literacies of Young Caribbeans in Manchester

Information to follow shortly. ... Read more»

Project staff: Susan Dray (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Mark Sebba

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

Metaphor in End-of-Life Care

The primary aim of this project is to investigate the use of metaphor in the experience of end-of-life care in the UK. We will study the metaphors use ... Read more»

Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Veronika Koller, Sheila Payne (Division of Health Research), Paul Rayson (Computing and Communications), Elena Semino

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

Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax

The RHIM project, funded by the AHRC as part of the ESF Babel initiative, explores morphosyntactic systems that are based on a hierarchy of referents ... Read more»

Project staff: Anna Siewierska, Eva van Lier
Keywords: Grammar, Language typology, Morphology, Personhood, Reference, Syntax

Socio-pragmatic competence of L2-doctors

This study looked into the socio-pragmatic competence of doctors using an L2 on the workfloor. L2-doctors' use of modification when communicating with ... Read more»

Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language proficiency, Second language acquisition

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»