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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 (Linguistics and English Language)
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 (Linguistics and English Language)
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 (Linguistics and English Language)
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 (Linguistics and English Language)

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 (Linguistics and English Language)
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 (Linguistics and English Language), Andrea Révész (Linguistics and English Language)
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»

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 (Linguistics and English Language)
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 (Linguistics and English Language)
Keywords: Memory, Metalinguistic knowledge and foreign language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition