Members of the group are engaged in research within the following areas: instructed second language acquisition, first language acquisition, using corpus linguistics to understand language and inform classroom practice, text-driven approaches to materials design and materials evaluation.
Our work in this area shares a common concern for developing a fuller understanding of the ways in which both languages are learnt and understood as they contribute to human communication.
Members of this Research Cluster include:
- Graham Ethelston
- Victorina Gonzales-Diaz
- Chris Jones
- Ursula Kania
- Nektaria Kourtali
- Annarita Magliacane
- Hitomi Masuhara
- David Oakey
- Lesley Randles
Cluster Lead: Chris Jones
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