Project overview
The aim of this grant was to establish a new, UK-based international research network devoted to integrating insights from theoretical linguistic
research with insights from the reality of the language classroom, in order to develop a programme of research into new approaches to fostering the acquisition of meaning in the L2 classroom. See more details at https://millnetwork.org/
The network was based at the Universities of York and Southampton and included 7 core and 11 associate members in the UK, as well as 4 international members. A series of teacher-researcher workshops and focus groups with teachers were held, whose input was overwhelmingly positive. A number of short videos aimed at language teachers and learners were created (see project website), in order to showcase examples of meaning phenomena in different languages that have been found to be important in linguistic research but that are not treated in language teaching textbooks.
A colloquium entitled "What does meaning mean in second language learning?" was presented at the internationally important conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) in 2016.
The investigators edited a special issue of journal Language Teaching Research, (Impact Factor 3.89), addressing the network topic through experimental studies.
research with insights from the reality of the language classroom, in order to develop a programme of research into new approaches to fostering the acquisition of meaning in the L2 classroom. See more details at https://millnetwork.org/
The network was based at the Universities of York and Southampton and included 7 core and 11 associate members in the UK, as well as 4 international members. A series of teacher-researcher workshops and focus groups with teachers were held, whose input was overwhelmingly positive. A number of short videos aimed at language teachers and learners were created (see project website), in order to showcase examples of meaning phenomena in different languages that have been found to be important in linguistic research but that are not treated in language teaching textbooks.
A colloquium entitled "What does meaning mean in second language learning?" was presented at the internationally important conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) in 2016.
The investigators edited a special issue of journal Language Teaching Research, (Impact Factor 3.89), addressing the network topic through experimental studies.
Staff
Lead researcher
Research outputs
Heather Marsden & Roumyana Slabakova,
2019, Language Teaching Research, 23(2), 147-157
Type: article