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Programme 2012/2013

Term 2

Meetings this term are on !Mondays 4:00-5:30 in Bowland North SR 27!.

Date Speaker Topic
11 Feb 2013 Alan Waters 'Orwellian' discourse in ELT:  a threat to professional diversity
18 Feb 2013
Morana Lukac, visting researcher from Leiden University
How word choice matters: an analysis of adjective + noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays
25 Feb 2013
Jean Marguerite Jimenez
Investigating the effects of immediate electronic corrective feedback on foreign language development
4 March 2013
!Furness Lecture Theatre 3
Talia Isaacs, Bristol University
Modelling comprehensibility in second language speaking scales
(Joint meeting with LTRG)
!Thursday 7 March
3.30 to 5 p.m. C89!
Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger, Graz University, Austria
Language as a learning tool in subject learning
11 March 2013
  • Janina Iwaniec
  • Charis Stefanou
  • Janina: Modelling the structure of language learning motivation
  • Charis: The role of written corrective feedback and learner individual differences in second language article use for generic and specific plural reference
22 April 2013
Almudena Fernández Fontecha, University of La Rioja - Spain
Motivation, age and gender in L2 receptive and productive vocabulary
3 June 2013
Diana Pili
Effects of different feedback strategies on the improvement of morphological accuracy in spoken L2 Italian (working title)

 

Term 1

Date Speaker Topic
10 Oct 2012 Judit Kormos A mixed method study of motivation and inter-cultural contact in a study abroad context
31 Oct 2012 Charis Stefanou The effect of written corrective feedback and learner individual differences on second language generic article use
21 Nov 2012 Janina Iwaniec The structural equation model of language learning motivation
28 Nov 2012,
Bowland North SR 20
Andrea Révész, Marije Michel, & Roger Gilabert Independent measurement of task complexity
5 Dec 2012 Jenefer Philp The social side of peer interaction – helps and hindrances to L2 learning
12 Dec 2012 Diana Mazgutova The effects of task complexity on the development of academic writing skills of international postgraduate students: Pilot study results

 

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