This module explores the ways in which language can function as an indicator of a range of social and cultural identities, and how language plays an active role in constructing identities. The module takes an interdisciplinary approach to analysing the relationship between language, identity and culture. It allows you to Read more
This module is designed to give you a thorough grounding in the main areas of feminist and queer linguistic enquiry. Language, gender and sexuality is a diverse and often controversial field, which gives rise to varying and sometimes contradictory theories and methods of analysis. You will learn about a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Read more
In this module you will be looking in depth at the grammatical and phonological resources of learners and users of English as a second language. For grammar, you’ll be using data from Chris Hall’s research on how the first language influences the second, and on successful L2 user grammars. Chris Read more
People have some very entrenched and often unexamined beliefs about language, and these beliefs often underpin social injustices in language learning, teaching, and use. In this module we interrogate some of these myths from the perspective of Applied Linguistics, using my co-authored introduction to the field as a basis. We’ll Read more
This module explores how the human mind allows us to understand and produce language so rapidly and effortlessly. Some of the research on English that we touch on in the module is described in this book chapter; but we go beyond English to look at the neuropsychology of bilingualism and Read more
On this module we consider a whole host of linguistic attitudes and language ideologies, and although we look at language attitudes across the whole of society, we spend some time focusing on language attitudes in schools. I enjoy sharing my research work on teachers’ discourses about multilingualism as part of Read more
I wrote a chapter on phonetics for this A-Level/first year undergraduate textbook at the beginning of my interest in children’s phonology. Since then I have become fascinated by children’s pronunciation, how it develops, and how it relates to the voices children hear around them. This interest has developed into Read more