Centre for Applied Linguistics
Research and consultancy in the broad field of applied linguistics.
Co-Directors: Professor Andrea Révész and Professor Miguel Pérez-Milans
Our mission is to promote the IOE as a centre of international excellence in research and teaching in the broad field of applied linguistics, including:
- critical (socio/applied) linguistics,
- bilingualism and multilingualism/plurilingualism,
- second and additional language acquisition,
- language testing,
- language pedagogies,
- multimodal communication,
- linguistic ethnography,
- discourse and interactional analysis,
- health communication,
- professional / institutional communication,
- English as a global language,
- intercultural communication,
- literacy,
- corpus linguistics,
- language-in-education policy and practice,
- language and identity,
- language, gender and sexuality,
- language and space-making.
Aims
Our centre aims to:
- seek external funding for high-quality research and consultancy in the broad field of applied linguistics,
- foreground the work in these areas through high status publications as well as through conferences and seminars,
- develop research networks and partnerships with research teams nationally and internationally,
- build networks of interest across UCL and develop synergies between adjacent areas and forms of research,
- liaise with other research centres across UCL which also have an interest in broadly based applied linguistics,
- provide strategic leadership, expertise and support to those working in the area of applied linguistics,
- provide research input into the teaching programmes and doctoral supervision in areas of applied linguistics.
News
IOE alumna’s research on task-based approaches to language learning published in top journal
Research from Jiying Xu found that task-based approaches to second language learning can boost pronunciation and speech, though its effectiveness depends on learners’ auditory processing abilities.
06 Dec 2024
IOE students win awards for doctoral research
A number of doctoral researchers studying at IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, have been awarded prizes this autumn which recognise the excellence of their research in a wide range of areas.
05 Nov 2024
Home, heritage and community languages: recognising the breadth of language learning
On UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2024, which celebrates learners’ universal right to study their heritage languages, Professor Li Wei, Chair in Applied Linguistics and Director and Dean of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, writes:
21 Feb 2024
