Faculty of Education

Disability, poverty and development; poverty, ethnicity and special educational needs

Educational inequality: gender and poverty;
international and national policies and practices for reaching the marginalised

Learner language;
variation and multidimensional analysis of (specialized) language(s);
CALL;
corpora in applied linguistics;
ICTs in language education

Social impact and cognitive underpinnings of specific language impairments; pragmatic language impairments and autism; development of non-literal language comprehension and pragmatic language development

First language acquisition; word learning; experimental semantics & pragmatics; implicature; bilingualism

Virtual learning; online learning; course design; EFL assessment; second language education

Bilingualism; language learning; language and thought

Second language teacher development; sociocultural theories of learning and SLA; community/heritage/minority language acquisition and education

Language and education;
oracy