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Our Research

For the last forty years, we have been known for cutting-edge empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas. We constantly strive to make links with potential users of our work.

Research Centres and Groups

The department hosts active research groups in areas such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language and gender, literacy, pragmatics and stylistics, and second language learning, assessment and teaching.

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The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.

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FASS departments hosted the 1st International Conference on Postgraduate Student-led Research and Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

As part of Lancaster University’s longstanding research collaboration with Sunway University and newly developing research collaboration with the National University of Malaysia, an international conference featuring original work of postgraduate taught and research students from the three partner universities was organised on 2nd-4th June.
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LAEL’s postgraduate students present original research work at the ICRI-HASS conference

On 2-4th June, as part of ICRI-HASS Conference, LAEL postgraduate taught and research students showcased their original research work to postgraduate students from all over the world.  
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New Study Abroad destination for LAEL students

On 26th May LAEL department signed an articulation agreement with the National University of Malaysia (UKM). The agreement allows LAEL undergraduate students spend a year abroad studying in Malaysia.
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Establishing Trusting Relationships with International Partners

Julia Gillen, Oksana Afitska and Diane Potts of the department worked with Verity Elston of the University of Lausanne to produce a short video on the topic of Establishing Trusting Relationships with International Partners. This was shown and discussed at a workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers in the Department of Educational Research on 23rd April 2021.
There are two problems about language that young children have to solve

How we learn words and sentences at the same time

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by Lancaster University researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language.

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Upcoming Events

16th Jun

Ed Res Seminar Series - 2 seminars in 1 - Intersectional Pedagogy - Its place in the English Language Secondary Classroom/English and development: A view from Colombia

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
16th Jun

Linguistics and English Language Webinar: How children from different cultures learn to talk about the mind (by Dr Silke Brandt)

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 2:00pm to 2:45pm
17th Jun

Arts and Social Sciences Taster Week: Myths about the English Language

Thursday 17 June 2021, 5:30pm to 6:15pm

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