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Research and consultancy in the broad field of applied linguistics.
Co-Directors: Professor John Gray and Professor Amos Paran.
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:
- bilingualism and multilingualism,
- 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.
About us
- 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.
- Our staff
Directors of Centre
- Professor John Gray
- Professor Amos Paran
Core Members
- Jane Allemano, Associate Professor (Teaching)
- Froso Argyri, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Emma Brooks, Lecturer in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication
- David Wei Dai, Lecturer in Professional Communication
- Zsófia Demjén, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Fotini Diamantidaki, Associate Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication
- Giuliana Ferri, Lecturer in Language and Intercultural Communication
- John Gray, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education
- Talia Isaacs, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment
- Li Wei, Director and Dean of IOE and Professor in Applied Linguistics
- David Mallows, Associate Professor (Teaching)
- Jim McKinley, Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Dina Mehmedbegovic - Smith, Associate Professor of Education and Applied Linguistics
- John O’Regan, Vice Dean (International) and Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics
- Amos Paran, Professor of TESOL
- Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL
- Miguel Pérez-Milans, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Andrea Révész, Professor of Second Language Acquisition
- Kazuya Saito, Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Andrea Sunyol, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Nathan Thomas, Lecturer in TESOL
- Ruanni Tupas, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics
- Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication
Administrative Staff
- Ilaria Olivieri, Programme administrator for the MA Intercultural Communication
- Hayley Cook, Programme administrator for the MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL In Service
- Nick Watts, Programme administrator for TESOL pre-service.
Other IOE Members
- Jeff Bezemer, Professor of Learning and Communications
- Verna Brandford, Lecturer in Education, PGCE MFL
- Andrew Burn, Professor of Media Education
- Katharine Carruthers, Director, Confucius Institute for Schools
- Caroline Conlon, Lecturer in Modern Foreign Languages Education, PGCE MFL
- Myrrh Domingo, Associate Professor of Contemporary Literacies
- Sam Duncan, Associate Professor of Adult Education and Literacies
- Roberto Filippi, Professor of Psychology and Special Educational Needs
- Will Gibson, Reader in Social Research Methods
- Lesley Gourlay, Professor of Education and Technology
- Carey Jewitt, Professor of Learning and Technology
- Claudia Lapping, Reader in Psychosocial Studies and Education
- Shirley Lawes, Lecturer in Modern Foreign Languages
- Áine McAllister, Senior Teaching Fellow
- Chloë Marshall, Professor of Psychology, Language and Education
- Norbert Pachler, Professor of Education
- Hugh Starkey, Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education
- John Vorhaus, Professor of Moral and Educational Philosophy
- Sue Walters, Associate Professor of Education, MTeach
- John Yandell, Associate Professor of Education (English Studies)
- Catherine Wallace, Emerita Professor
- Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education.
Dissertation supervisors
- Celia Antoniou, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Erhan Aslan, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Elaine Boyd, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Sophia Diamantopoulou, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Andy Gillett, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Ide Haghi, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Kate Hammer, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Ruolin Hu, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Irini Mavrou, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Amina Lechkhab, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Steve Wong, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Yasemin Yildiz, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Sara Young, Lecturer (Teaching)
- Victor Guillen Solano, Lecturer (Teaching)
Study with us
- Programmes
Courses leading to accreditation:
Activities
- Our research
Projects include:
- British Academy teaching-research nexus
- British Council reading and writing in second language
- Child Bilingual Brain Imaging
- CITTI research project, analysing interactions within virtual learning environments for students of citizenship
- Cognitive benefits of language learning
- Development of a strategy for EAL in the teaching workforce
- Digital Literacies as a Postgraduate Attribute
- Examining language-related eligibility criteria in patient recruitment to randomised controlled trials
- Family Language Policy
- How does literacy experience in more than one language shape cognition?
- How tutors use masters degree studies in education to support teachers
- Investigating the predictive validity of the Duolingo English Test
- Language of voice-hearing
- Maximising the impact of second language vocabulary on the design of language learning apps
- Monitoring and Evaluation of the Hearing All Voices Project
- Multilingual universities
- Multilingualism in healthcare: Exploring the lived experience of maternity professionals
- Neurocognition and Second Language Learning: Exploring Neurocognitive Processes During L2 Speech in Crisis Situations
- Project for the Development of National Occupational Standards in Intercultural Working
- Social Mobile Network to enhance community building for adults informal learning
- Tasks and assessing second language writing processes and outcomes
- The complexity-accuracy-fluency triad, communicative adequacy, and revisiting the IELTS speaking band descriptors
- Translanguaging and learning
- Translanguaging in diverse contexts
- Translanguaging in the workplace
- Using computational tools to analyse the language demands of informed consent documents in health intervention research.
- Using eye-tracking as an educational tool: An investigation into the effects of interactive eye-tracking on second language vocabulary knowledge (Spencer Foundation)
- Questioning Vaccination Discourse: Quo Vadis
International collaborations:
See also:
- UCL Research Portal, IRIS to find more about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes.
Research groups
- Consultancy and advisory work
Projects include:
Dr Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith has developed a new concept Healthy Linguistic Diet as an innovative approach to language learning, based on her research. Healthy Linguistic Diet has been endorsed by the EU Commission in their report: European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, Rethinking language education in schools, Publications Office, 2018 , as one of the recommendations to the member states.
It has also been used for teacher training in EU member states and as a regional strategy in Italy.
Partners have included:
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridge Assessment English
- Duolingo
- Educational Testing Service (TOEFL Commitee of Examiners).
Healthy Linguistic Diet
- Editorships
Below is a partial list of journal editorships, book series editorships, and journal editorial board membership of members of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics
Journal editorships
- Applied Linguistics Review (De Gruyter) – Li Wei, Principal Editor
- Language Testing (SAGE) – Talia Isaacs, Co-Editor
- Chinese Language and Discourse (John Benjamins) – Li Wei, Co-Editor
- Education, Innovation and Communication (Communication Institute of Greece) – Fotini Diamantidaki, Co-Editor-in-Chief
- Educational Linguistics (De Gruyter) – Li Wei, General Editor
- ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) – Amos Paran, Reviews Editor
- Global Chinese (De Gruyter) – Li Wei, Co-Editor
- Professional and Academic English (IATEFL ESP SIG Journal) – Andy Gillett, Editor
- International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (Taylor & Francis) – Li Wei, Editor
- International Journal of the Sociology of Language (De Gruyter) – Ruanni Tupas, Associate Editor
- Language Policy (Springer) – Miguel Perez-Milans, Co-Editor-in-Chief
- Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Elsevier), Li Wei, Consulting Editor
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press) – Andrea Revesz, Associate Editor
- System (Elsevier) – Jim McKinley, Co-Editor-in-Chief
- The Language Learning Journal (Taylor & Francis) – Li Wei, Editor; Ana Pellicer-Sanchez, Editor
- TESOL in Context (Australian Council for TESOL Associations) – David Wei Dai, Co-Editor
Book series editorships
- Cambridge Elements in Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University Press) – Li Wei, Co-Editor
- Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press) – Jim McKinley, Co-Editor
- Contemporary Studies in Linguistics (Bloomsbury) – Li Wei, Editor
- Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics (Wiley) – Li Wei, Editor
- Language Policy and Practices in China (De Gruyter) – Li Wei, Editor
- IMPACT: Studies in language, culture and society (John Benjamins) – Li Wei, Editor
Journal editorial board membership
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University Press), Andrea Revesz
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