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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.

Latest News

Julia Gillen and Verity Elston

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.
Alina Reid

MA student wins international dissertation award

We are pleased to share the news that MA in Language Testing student Alina Carastoian Reid has won the 2020 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award.
Screenshot of Olena

PhD student wins best paper award

Language testing PhD student Olena Rossi has been selected as the winner of the best student paper award at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers, USA (ECOLT) 2020 conference, which was held online.
Expanding Tesol Horizons Conference

TESOL Horizons Conference

On the 24th of October our outstanding last year cohort students, in partnership with the South China Normal University 华南师范大学, organised the TESOL Horizons Postgraduate Conference.

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Upcoming Events

12th May

Ed Res Seminar Series - Towards wicked marking criteria: the deceptive allure of clarity

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
12th May

Linguistics and English Language Webinar: Language change - Getting to grips with analysing historical texts (by Professor Jonathan Culpeper)

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 2:00pm to 2:45pm
2nd Jun

International Conference on Student-led Research & Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday 2 June 2021, 8:45am to Friday 4 June 2021, 1:00pm

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