Applied Linguistics Research
An MPhil and PhD in Applied Linguistics |are offered in the Department of English & Language Studies. These degrees are co-ordinated by Professor Adrian Holliday|, who is also Head of the Graduate School, which provides cross-institutional support and facilities for research students within an interdisciplinary community.
Staff Research Interests
Several members of the department take part in the supervision of research students, and have the following interests:
Professor Adrian Holliday: cultural issues in TESOL professionalism, the politics of curriculum change, intercultural communication.
Dr Charlotte Franson: postgraduate teacher training in English as an additional language, educational policy and provision, second language pedagogy and teacher education with respect to English as a second/additional language students.
Dr Chris Anderson: social, political and cultural issues in language education, pedagogy and learning/acquisition; cross-cultural pragmatics and intercultural communication; Discourse and discourse; sociolinguistics.
Dr Goodith White: the teaching of listening, issues of langiuage and identity, ICT and learning, teacher development, world Englishes and endangered languages
Dr John Kullman: cultural issues in language teaching and learning, intercultural communication, the education and mentoring of student teachers, language programme design, materials design and evaluation.
Dr Martin Hyde: professional discourses and conceptualizations of culture, situated in conferences, training, classrooms and curriculum projects, the issues of cultural imperialism and intercultural relations and literacies.
Dr Pamela Aboshiha: the development of ELT in the primary sector, teacher education and the challenges facing English language teachers in a globalising world.
Richard Cullen: the role of classroom interaction and teacher talk in second language learning through analyses of lesson transcripts, the evaluation of reflection on teacher education programmes, learning and teaching of second language grammar and phonology.