Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Emeritus Professor Patrick Stevenson PhD

Research interests

  • German sociolinguistics
  • Multilingualism
  • The politics of language
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Emeritus Professor Richard Kiely

Research interests

  • Classroom practice, with a focus on the teacher
  • Teacher learning, as the development of professional identity and expertise
  • Teacher research, particularly its role in professional learning and development
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Emeritus Professor Rosamond Mitchell FAcSS

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Language in education
  • Student mobility and study abroad
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Professor Roumyana Slabakova

Chair in Applied Linguistics

Research interests

  • Generative linguistic theory and the second language (L2) acquisition
  • Acquisition of grammatical structure and its interaction with meaning
  • Online and offline psycholinguistic methodologies
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Dr Rugang Lu

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Multimodal discourse analysis
  • Semiological approach to culture studies
  • Intercultural communication and language teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sarah Rule

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Dr Simin Sasani

Teaching Fell in Applied Linguistics/ELT

Research interests

  • Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT
  • Sociolinguistics of English as a global language
  • Intercultural pragmatics in the global Englishes context

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Sirawit Apairach

Research interests

  • Critical applied linguistics
  • Systemic functional linguistics
  • Academic literacies
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Dr Sonia Moran Panero

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • English as a global lingua franca (ELF)
  • Sociolinguistics, identity and semiotics in an era of globalisation
  • Translanguaging and transcultural communication

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Vicky Wright

Professorial Fellow-Education

Research interests

  • Learner Autonomy
  • Teacher Autonomy
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning / Language Learning and Innovation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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