Congratulations to David Beauchamp

Double congratulations are due to David Beauchamp, who has successfully defended his PhD, “Communicating Covid: variation in UK institutional crisis messages throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic” (link coming soon; find out more about the project here) and had the corrections accepted. This was a really fascinating study …

Visiting scholar Betül Bal-Gezegin

CLaC is delighted to welcome visiting scholar Betül Bal-Gezegin, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey. Betül earned her Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in Foreign Language Education from Middle East Technical University. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Applied …

CLaC aluma presenting to Warwick Applied Linguistics Seminar Series

Our recent PhD graduate, Yan  Yan Yeung, is giving a talk about her fascinating PhD work as part of the Warwick University Applied Linguistics series Language. Culture. Matters today Weds 8 May. Details below… Place: Online MS Teams:  Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 339 024 274 131 Passcode: tK5zsv Room S0.08, Social Sciences Building

Negotiation or imposition? SFL analysis of UK government guidelines in the COVID-19 pandemic

This talk, given by Benet Vincent and Sheena Gardner, was based on a paper (written with David Beauchamp) which they recently submitted to the volume Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Meet the Challenge of Change, edited by Vinh To, Eric Cheung and Jonathan Webster. In the talk, Benet and Sheena …

New CLaC paper just out ‘How can I add an argument appropriately in English?’

Chao Han and Sheena Gardner have recently had their third article based on transition markers in the Han CH-EN corpus accepted for publication in JEAP. The Han CH-EN corpus is a subset of the BAWE corpus in which each text by a Chinese speaking Chinese educated student is closely matched …

CfP – Decision-Making in Selecting, Compiling, Analysing and Reporting on the Use of Corpora in Applied Linguistics Research

CLaC is excited to issue a reminder about this call for abstracts for a Special Issue of the Journal of Methods in Applied Linguistics, guest edited by Aysel Şahin Kızıl (İzmir Bakırçay University – recently a visiting scholar with CLaC), Lee McCallum, and Benet Vincent. We are hoping to publish our …