About us
The Centre promotes a broadly based applied language research agenda.
A little more about the three groups in CALR:
The group on language learning and teaching investigates a range of research questions in diverse settings. A combining feature of these research endeavours is to find out how humans learn languages in and outside of classrooms, how teaching practices vary and might be improved, what features are typical or interesting about the language produced by learners and how culture and other beliefs influence teaching and learning practice.
Our largest current research focuses on the networks of learning while students are on their “Year Abroad” while previous staff research tracked the development of child foreign language learners in instructional settings.
The linguistic theory group is interested in theories of the human language faculty and how language is instantiated in the minds of speakers. The group’s theoretical interests largely concern current generative approaches to the language faculty and its architecture, with a focus on syntax and its interfaces with morphology, phonology, semantics and pragmatics.
