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It has particular strengths in: educational linguistics and language education; literacy studies; sociolinguistics; text and discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Research focuses on the dynamics of language and literacy within globalisation and intercultural contact, on language, literacy and discourse in everyday interaction, in education, literature, and popular culture, in new & mass media, and in medical and workplace settings.
The Centre runs a number of seminar series, research days and workshops, some in collaboration with other parts of the University of London, which are invaluable to Language & Linguistics MPhil/PhD students.
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication
DESCRIPTION
The Centre for Language Discourse & Communication (Centre for LDC) is hosted by the Department of Educational & Professional Studies but works across the School of Arts & Humanities and the School of Social Science & Public Policy. It has particular strengths in: educational linguistics and language education; literacy studies; sociolinguistics; text and discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Research focuses on the dynamics of language and literacy within globalisation and intercultural contact, on language, literacy and discourse in everyday interaction, in education, literature, and popular culture, in new & mass media, and in medical and workplace settings.
The Centre runs a number of seminar series, research days and workshops, some in collaboration with other parts of the University of London, which are invaluable to Language & Linguistics MPhil/PhD students.
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Associated staff research interests
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My research interests include second language acquisition, the focus on form in second language classrooms, teacher education and L2 materials development. I research the role of output in second language acquisition, especially the nature of collaborative learning whilst doing focus-on-form language learning tasks.
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020 7848 3717
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020 7848 3182
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My research involves ethnographic and interactional discourse analysis. I cross-refer quite frequently to work in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, and my publications cover urban multilingualism, language, youth, popular culture, ethnicities and class, language education and classroom discourse, second language learning, and research methodology.
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Assessment especially in English; history of English teaching; literacy development; media education.
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My research is concerned with language and ethnicity. I use two qualitative methodologies, Interactional Sociolinguistics and ethnography to look at disadvantages faced by linguistic and ethnic minorities in interaction with institutions. My publications cover patient-health professional communication, language and cultural practices in the workplace, English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) and institutional selection processes and their potential for indirect discrimination. In the last five years I have directed 6 government funded research projects on health communication, selection interviewing and ESOL.
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020 7848 3188
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020 7848 3182
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My academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessment, and language policy.
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020 7848 3713
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020 7848 3182
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- All aspects of MFL education
- Primary foreign language learning and teaching
- Cultural and intercultural dimensions of language learning
- School organisation, management and leadership
- European dimensions of schooling and comparative education
- Change processes and innovation in schools
- Assessment for learning (AfL) in MFL and in primary and secondary schools generally
- Researching the pupils' voice and pupil talk
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020 7848 3145
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020 7848 3182
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This strand of my research has investigated the use of motion descriptions in English and Spanish, focusing on the manner and path aspects of motion. Several of my studies have used motion events to examine different features of motion event judgments and descriptions. These range from studies on infant ability to discriminate manner and path in motion events, to Spanish/English adult bilinguals' use of motion verbs to describe these events. I have also shown that children make different similarity judgments about motion events as a factor of the language they are learning and their age. I am currently conducting pilot work investigating metaphorical motion in Spanish and English.
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Language variation and the sociolinguistics of identity (focusing especially on the relationship between language and social class), regional/social dialectology, ethnographic and interactional discourse analysis, language ideologies, classroom discourse and teacher professional development.
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+44 020 7848 3170
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My main research interests lie in the relationship between globalization, language diversity and intercultural communication. In particular, I am currently investigating English as a lingua franca (ELF), working with ELF corpus data for the purpose of describing and theorizing current developments in the lexis, grammar and pragmatics of English in lingua franca settings. My research also considers the implications for language pedagogy of the ongoing internationalization and diversification of English(es), especially in the context of Teacher Education, and with a focus on the nature of knowledge about language in teacher development.
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020 7848 3104
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Language teacher knowledge and expertise, teacher education and teacher development, the role of materials in language teaching and learning, task-based language teaching (TBLT), learner autonomy and learner strategies, and ICT in language learning. My PhD investigated the relationship between theory and research in SLA, and language teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practices, using a case study approach on the uptake of task-based approaches to language teaching.
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020 7848 3715
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020-7848 3182
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My interests include language and ethnicity, language in education and language and literacy. I have a particular research focus on the formation of new ethnicities in Britain over the past few decades, and the resultant implications for educational policy and practice.
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020 7848 3712
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020 7848 3182
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The key focus of my research is how experience of language learning is constructed through discourse, including autobiographical accounts. Other research interests include various aspects of MFL teaching and methodology, currently focusing on MFL for early learners, the intercultural dimension, and content-based language learning. I am also interested in language choice and curriculum reform.
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020 7848 3161
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020 7848 3182
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My main areas of research interest lie within the realm of the history and development of English curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In addition I’m interested in the work of subject associations and teachers’ professional life histories. These interests form the basis of my current PhD research on the history, significance and influence of the London Association for the Teaching of English in the development of subject English. As a teacher educator, I’m also concerned with the development of subject knowledge, and have recently received TDA funding as part of a project to enhance subject knowledge training for graduates following work based routes into teaching, and funding to produce web-based materials for fellow English initial teacher educators.
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020 7848 3184
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020 7848 3182
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Students' transition from school to university; the development of academic writing and online teaching and learning; learner autonomy in language learning; learner lexicography.
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020 7848 3536
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020 7848 3182
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CONTACTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Professor Ben Rampton, 020 7848 3711; Professor Constant Leung, 020 7848 3713
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