Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research
Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

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

Dr Adriana Patino

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistic ethnography
  • Language socialisation
  • Narrative inquiry

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Adriana

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2208

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Dr Alison Porter

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Foreign language (FL) teaching and learning in instructed (school) settings, particulary the development of FL literacy in primary and secondary school classrooms. 
  • The potential for cross-linguistic influence in early, beginner instructed FL learning.
  • The role of evidence-informed pedagogies on teacher learning and practice.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Alison

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 1953

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Ms Amna Smith

Research interests

  • ESOL
  • ELT
  • Language learning
Connect with Amna

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Amy Wallington BA, MA, PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow
Connect with Amy

Email: [email protected]

Professor Clare Mar-Molinero

Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics

Research interests

  • Spanish sociolinguistics (global Spanish, Spain, Mexico, US Latinx)
  • Language policy, ideologies and practices
  • Language and migration

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Clare

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3298

Dr Duygu Candarli

Lecturer in ELT/TESOL

Research interests

  • Second language writing, writing assessment
  • Corpus linguistics, learner corpora, phraseology
  • Academic discourse, discourse analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Duygu

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Glyn Hicks

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Syntactic theory
  • Theories of the language faculty architecture, particularly the syntax-semantics interface and the syntax-morphology interface
  • Acquisition and attrition of syntax in bilingual speakers

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Glyn

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3830

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Dr Haimeng Ren PhD

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Translation of Allusion
  • Cognitive Translation Studies
  • Translation Pedagogy

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Haimeng

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Ian Mccall

Senior Lecturer

Research interests

  • Translation Theory
  • Practical Translation and Translation Pedagogy
  • Audiovisual Translation 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ian

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7418

Dr Jaine Beswick

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics/sociophonetics of Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and English
  • Socio-psychological/geolinguistic spaces: borders, borderlands, diaspora, islands
  • Migrant identities: authenticity, belonging, in groups/out groups
Connect with Jaine

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3247

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