Our CLaC colleague Lee has just published ‘Shaping Writing Grades: Collocation and Writing Context Effects’ with Philip Durrant at the University of Exeter. This book is free to download for the next week or so here. Book summary This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual …
James just had the corrections to his thesis ‘Writing at the crossroads: A linguistic analysis of academic business report writing at a modern UK university’ accepted by the University of Birmingham. James’ research focused on the ‘case study report’ genre of student writing and compared report texts produced in a …
Dr Yu-Hua Chen from the School of Humanities at Coventry University, Dr Ying Zheng and Prof. Roumyana Slabakova from Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton have been successful in winning the British Academy Talent Development Award 2021. They will work on a project entitled “An Investigation of the Statistical …