Language, Discourse & Communication, option of joint PhD with HKU/NUS

Classical civilisation, museum education

Output in L2 acquisition; focus on form in L2 classrooms; teacher education and materials development for L2 grammar

020 7848 3717

Discourse, narrative analysis and sociolinguistics of Modern Greek; anthropological linguistics; youth language; computer-mediated communication.

+44 (0)20 7848 2629

Contemporary Spanish language, syntax. Applied and Descriptive Linguistics.

+44 (0)20 7848 2068

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.

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.

020 7848 3188

Philosophical issues in linguistics, academic literacy, sociolinguistics and language policy

020 7848 3852

My academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessment, and language policy.

020 7848 3713

Clinical/cognitive linguistics/psycholinguistics, with particular focus on pragmatic functioning of normally developing and language disordered children, including children on the autistic continuum

My current research projects are in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics (with special focus on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Health Communication) and Typical/Atypical Language Development using a combination of Psycholinguistic and Discourse Analysis approaches, whereas my earlier research was on Semantic & Lexical Variation and Change in English, using a Corpus Linguistic approach.

020 7848 3145

My research examines how thought and language are interrelated in child and adult cognition. I have two lines of work: 1) structure of language and cognition, and 2) discourse development.

General linguistics, English syntax

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 relation to Teacher Education, and with a focus on the role and nature of knowledge about language in teacher development. 

020 7848 3104

Job interviews, ethnicity and disadvantage

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.

020 7848 3715

Written composition, genre studies, rhetoric, semiotics, the teaching of English in anglophone contexts

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.

020 7848 3712

Philosophy of language; linguistics, dynamic syntax.

MFL teaching and methodology, MFL for early learners, the intercultural dimension, and content-based language learning.

020 7848 3161

Students' transition from school to university; academic writing and online teaching; language learning.

020 7848 3536

Literary and linguistic computing, Ovidian studies, meta-textual representation, humanities computing.

+44 (0)20 7848 2784