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 …
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 …
CLaC is excited to announce that member Benet Vincent has a new chapter out (co-written with Jim Clarke) – ‘The Colours of the Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them on the Screen’: The Adaptation of Nadsat in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the collection Anthony …
Congratulations to CLaC member Yuhua, who has two publications out imminently. For details and links please see below Chen, Y. H., Harrison, S., Stevens, M. and Zhou, Q. (forthcoming). Developing A Multimodal Corpus of L2 English from an EMI University in China. Corpora. Chen, Y. H. & Zheng, Y. (2022). …
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 …
Congratulations to our CLaC colleagues Hilary Nesi and Siân Alsop, who have a new article out in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes.Until 16 August you can access the article to read and/or download via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1dJDV5FQOReRBR Abstract A number of studies have examined the occurrence of stories …
