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Alessia Cogo

Alessia Cogo

  • Research fellows

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Research subject areas

  • Communication
  • Languages
  • Education

Contact details

Biography

Alessia Cogo is Visiting Senior Research Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of ELT Journal. She supervises MA and PhD students in the areas of Global Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, translanguaging and the implications for language teaching. Her current projects focus on English and multilingual practices in professional, academic and migration contexts, with particular emphasis on inclusive practices and linguistic justice. She has worked on projects in Italy and Brazil and is currently working on a BC funded project concerning primary English language teaching in Thailand. She is the Director of the Centre for Multilingualism with English (CME). 

Alessia is part of the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication (LDC).

Research interests

  • English Language Teaching (ELT), focusing on critical and transformative pedagogy
  • The diversity of English, including Global Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca, especially translanguaging, negotiation of meaning and pragmatic strategies
  • English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication, especially Healthcare communication in ELF, business and professional communication in ELF
  • English Medium Instruction (EMI), especially teachers' and students' perceptions and practices

Teaching

MA Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching