Language and Educational Practices
Posts relating to activities of members of the Language and Educational Practices Research Cluster
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Multilingual story-telling by children and for children
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, our Family Language Policy research team (Prof Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Dr Jing Huang) ran a 'Multilingual Story-telling for Children by Children' event at the Bath Central library on the 3rd...
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New Publication: Identity construction in learning English academic writing in a Japanese university.
Published, July 2017 Abstract The construction of writer identity in English L2 academic writing is not usually explicitly addressed in such writing classrooms, yet it plays a significant role for English L2 students learning to write in academic genres. This...
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Forthcoming Article in Higher Education
Rose, H. & McKinley, J. (2017). Japan's English medium instruction initiatives and the globalization of higher education, accepted for publication in Higher Education. This article analyses a recent initiative of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) which...
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New Edited Volume on Doing Research in Applied Linguistics
Doing Research in Applied Linguistics: Realities, dilemmas, and solutions provides insight and guidance for those undertaking research, and shows the reader, through honest portrayals of the often glossed-over problems experienced in applied linguistics research, how to deal with the challenges of...
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EuroSLA Conference
On 26/08/2016, I gave a presentation entitled "Parents and their role in language learning motivation". The abstract can be found below. Language learning motivation is likely to be influenced by important individuals surrounding learners, such as their parents (Williams &...
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Psychology of Language Learning
On Monday, 22/08/2016, I gave a presentation at the biannual Psychology of Language Learning Conference in Jyväskylä, Finland (https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/pll2016). The abstract of the talk can be found below. Sources and relationships between self-constructs in foreign language learning in Poland...
