Research areas
Language and communication
- Global Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and English as an International Language (EIL)
- Intercultural communication in educational and professional contexts
- Language, culture and identity
- Language socialisation
- Language policy
- Multiliteracies
- Classroom discourse
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Code switching / translanguaging
- Systemic functional linguistics
Language learning and teaching
- Language teacher education and development
- Teacher cognition
- Language learning motivation
- English Medium Instruction (EMI), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Disciplinary Literacies
- Gender and sexuality
- Context appropriate English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology / local pedagogies
- English for Specific Purposes (ESP) / English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- English as an Additional Language and heritage language development
- Young learners
- Vocabulary learning and teaching
- Feedback practices in education
Research approaches and methods
Our members have expertise in a wide range of research approaches and methods, including the following:
- linguistic ethnography
- case study
- action research
- narrative enquiry
- discourse analysis, including critical and multimodal approaches
- corpus-based discourse analysis
- analysis of academic and professional discourse
- surveys and large quantitative datasets