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Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law
Centre for Disability Research CeDR
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Centre for Law and Society
Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
Centre for Research in Language Education (CRILE)
Foreign language reading for academic purposes
This empirical study looked into the relative contribution of three factors to academic reading: academic language knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: English for academic purposes EAP, Language proficiency, Language testing
Identifying Best Practice in ELT INSET
In-service teacher training (INSET) for English language teachers is an important but often relatively ineffective aspect of large-scale English langu ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Waters
Keywords: Teacher learning in language teaching
Language, Educational Efficiency and Economic Outcomes (Le3o)
In the language testing sub-project of Le3o we investigated the development process of test materials for profession-oriented education in the first l ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language education, Language testing
Language learning motivation in Chile
In this project we investigated the language learning motivation of three cohorts of learners of English in Chile: secondary school students, universi ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Special education needs in language teaching and learning
In this age of globalization people who do not speak a second or a foreign language are at a serious disadvantage in the job market and sometimes even ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Language teaching research, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition, Special education needs
Tasks and assessing L2 listening comprehension
In this funded research project, we are investigating the relationships between text characteristics of task input, task difficulty, and test takers' ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
Tasks, proficiency, working memory and assessing L2 listening comprehension
This funded project explores the effect of a number of variables on L2 listening difficulty, in relation to L2 proficiency. More specifically, we inve ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition
The role of inter-cultural contact in motivation
In this project we investigated the role of inter-cultural contact in the motivation of Hungarian primary school children. We used both a nation-wide ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Motivation, Second language acquisition
The role of working memory and language aptitude in second language acquisition
in this non-funded project we investigated the role of working memory and language aptitude in intensive language learning in Hungary. We correlated w ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Memory, Metalinguistic knowledge and foreign language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition
Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education
Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology
Centre for the Study of Education and Training
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research
ImaginationLancaster
Institute for Advanced Studies
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
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