The Survey of English Usage
Quarterly Newsletter
December 2013
This newsletter is part of a series of quarterly newsletters from the Survey of English Usage, intended to keep the academic community and other interested parties informed about research in the Survey. The newsletter will be sent out in March, June, September and December. The March issue is the Survey’s Annual report.
Research
Creating a Web-Based Platform for English Language Teaching and Learning - Primary Follow-on Project
We are working with a number of London primary schools to explore the application of our Englicious platform to the primary English language curriculum.
More
informationAcademic Writing in English (AWE) App
Our second app, Academic Writing in English, was released for Apple and Android in late September. The app was developed as part of a Teaching Innovations Project at UCL, and is distributed free.
The app, written by Seth Mehl, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts, is aimed both at undergraduate students whose first language is English, but who have not yet mastered the academic written English essay, and students and academic staff for whom English is a professional language that they need to learn. It was designed to be more like an e-book than iGE, with a lot of written content and relatively few exercises. A fully-working preview of AWE is available if you view this page in Chrome or Safari browsers.
A third app, English Spelling and Punctuation, is currently in preparation.
Seminars and presentations
Survey seminars during the Autumn term
On 21 October, Seth Mehl gave a talk on Keywords within a model of semantic change: Vagueness, polysemy and the urgency of the debate.
On 2 December, Marina Lambou spoke on Narrative, Text and Time: telling the same story twice in the oral narrative reporting of 7/7.
Bas Aarts
Director
December 2013
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