CLLEAR has both staff and research student members.
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Director:
Generative linguistic theory, Second language acquisition, The acquisition of grammatical structure and it's interaction with meaning.
Deputy Director:
Second language acquisition, Generative linguistic theory, Language attrition, Spanish Linguistics.
Staff Members and Research Interests:
Dr Alasdair Archibald - Discourse analysis, second language writing, and interlanguage theories.
Dr Will Baker - English as a lingua franca, intercultural communication, English language teaching, and English as a medium of instruction.
Dr Jaine Beswick - Sociolinguistics and social psychological studies with a focus on phonetic and phonological aspects of Romance languages and English.
Kate Borthwick - Online and blended learning, educational innovation, computer-assisted language learning.
Prof Marion Demossier - Transnationalism, globalisation, wine culture, European identity and policy.
Dr Glyn Hicks - Minimalist syntax and linguistic theory.
Prof Mike Kelly - French culture and society, language policy.
Dr Richard Kiely - Language teacher learning from a sociocultural perspective, teacher training.
Dr E Jamieson - Syntactic variation and change: the consequences of dialect variation and grammatical attrition for models of generative grammar.
Dr Michael Kranert - Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, political discourse, workplace discourse, corpus linguistics.
Dr Rugang Lu - Semiotics in intercultural studies, literacy in Chinese, English poetry.
Prof Clare Mar-Molinero - Language Policy, language and migration, transnationalism and globalisation, urban multilingualism.
Dr Ian McCall - Translingualism, intertextuality, e-Learning, translation.
Prof Rosamond Mitchell - Second language acquisition, foreign language classroom learning and teaching
Dr Sonia Moran Panero - Sociolinguistics of language in an ear of globalization: the symbolic, ideological and social aspects of the use, teaching and learning of English for transcultural communication purposes.
Dr Darren Paffey - Language ideologies, the politics of language and (critical) discourse analysis, language planning, language policy and migration with the Spanish-speaking world.
Dr Adriana Patino - Interactional sociolinguistics, language socialisation, intercultural communication and multilingualism
Dr Virginie Pignot-Shahov - Acquisition and the development of L2 vocabulary and L2 proficiency and in the teaching and learning of languages other than English.
Dr Alison Porter - Second language teaching and learning, teaching foreign languages to young learners, literacy in additional languages, the role of crosslinguistic influence in language learning.
Dr Sarah Rule - Second language acquisition.
Prof Patrick Stevenson - German sociolinguistics, language ideologies, the politics of language, language contact and multilingualism, and language biographies.
Dr Ying Wang - English as a lingua franca, global Englishes, language attitude, identity and ideology, language policy and English education.
Prof Vicky Wright - Learner autonomy, resource-based learning, curriculum design and the use of new technologies for language learning.
Dr Ying Zheng - Psychometric analysis of language testing data, ESL/EFL learner characteristics, quantitative research methodology.
Dr Karin Zotzmann - Intercultural education, foreign language teaching and learning, teacher development, critical discourse analysis and academic literacy/writing.