On this page, we give an overview of our research and development activities. We include here news about conferences, publications, and projects we’re involved in.
Conference Reports
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Projects and teaching development activities
The following teachers in the English unit have been granted reductions in their teaching to allow time for various research and teaching development projects:
Sandro Amendolara: The roles of meta-cognitive and meta-emotional subjectivity in sharing language learning in an autonomous context.
Fergal Bradley: Research on language advising and new speakerness as part of an international network of language advisors.
Deborah Clarke (PhD research): Promoting inclusive multilingualism in neoliberal higher education.
Leena Karlsson: “Rhyme and reason”, personal reflective writing as a method for English learning and inspiration for research writing.
Jonathon Martin & Michele Simeon: Themed project courses through blended learning.
Robert Moncrief (PhD research): Attitudes towards the use of demotic language in English.
Kari Pitkänen: Verb choice in academic student texts: the effect of corrections on the discourse, content perspective, focus and sentence structure.
Publications
Bradley & Karlsson. (2017). Parallel Journeys: Creating and Conceptualising Learning in Language Counselling. Learner Development 1: 94-113 (#ALMS)