Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Emeritus Professor Richard Kiely

Research interests

  • Classroom practice, with a focus on the teacher
  • Teacher learning, as the development of professional identity and expertise
  • Teacher research, particularly its role in professional learning and development
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Emeritus Professor Rosamond Mitchell FAcSS

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Language in education
  • Student mobility and study abroad
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Dr Rugang Lu

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Multimodal discourse analysis
  • Semiological approach to culture studies
  • Intercultural communication and language teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sarah Rule

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Dr Simin Sasani

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT
  • Sociolinguistics of English as a global language
  • Intercultural pragmatics in the global Englishes context

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sonia Moran Panero

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • English as a global lingua franca (ELF)
  • Sociolinguistics, identity and semiotics in an era of globalisation
  • Translanguaging and transcultural communication

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Vicky Wright

Professor of Applied Linguistics

Research interests

  • Learner Autonomy
  • Teacher Autonomy
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning / Language Learning and Innovation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Virginie Pignot-Shahov

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Vocabulary learning and teaching
  • Engagement in language learning
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Dr Will Baker

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • English as a lingua franca and ¸£Àû×ÅÆ¬ Englishes
  • Intercultural and Transcultural communication
  • English as a medium of instruction and education

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Xiaojun Lu

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Second language writing
  • Methods in second language writing process research

Accepting applications from PhD students

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