Research
Recent research projects:
- Co-investigator and strand lead: MEITS Multilingualism Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies (MEITS)www.meits.org/ (AHRC large grant)
- Co-investigator: Creative Multilingualism www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/ (AHRC large grant)
- Co-investigator: Teacher wellbeing (with University of Granada)
- Constructing beliefs in the foreign language classroom using metaphor as a sociocultural tool
- Language development, social integration and educational achievement of EAL learners
- The impact of policy reform on language learning in Key Stage 3
Publications
Fisher, L., Evans, M., Forbes, K., Gayton, A., Liu, Y. (2018). Participative multilingual identity construction in the languages classroom: A multi-theoretical conceptualisation. International Journal of Multilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1524896
Forbes, K. & Fisher, L. (2018). Strategy development and cross-linguistic transfer in foreign and first language writing. Applied Linguistics Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2018-0008
Fisher, L. (2018). “Emotion recollected in tranquillity’: Blogging for metacognition in language teacher education, In Å. Haukås, C. Bjørke & M. Dypedahl (Eds.). Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching. Routledge.
Birketveit, A., Rimmereide, H. E., Bader, M., & Fisher, L. (2018). Extensive reading in primary school EFL. Acta Didactica DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/adno.5643
Evans, M., Fisher, L., Forbes, K., Liu, Y. (2018). The form and functions of newcomer EAL pupils' speech in English: patterns of progression and communication in semi-structured interview dialogue. Language and Education. DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2018.1445756
Liu, Y., Fisher, L., Forbes, K. & Evans, M. (2017). The knowledge base of teaching in linguistically diverse contexts: 10 grounded principles of multilingual classroom pedagogy for EAL. Language and Intercultural Communication. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2017.1368136
Fisher, L. (2017). Researching learners' and teachers' beliefs about language using metaphor. Discourse and Education: Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Volume 3. US: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02243-7
Evans, M., Schneider, C., Arnot, M., Fisher, L., Forbes, K., Hu, M., & Liu, Y. (2016). ![[pdf]](https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/images/fileicons/pdf.gif "[pdf]"){kind=small}
Language development and school achievement: Opportunities and challenges in the education of EAL students. Cambridge: the Bell Foundation.
Forbes, K. & Fisher, L. (2015). The impact of expanding advanced level secondary school students' awareness and use of metacognitive learning strategies on confidence and proficiency in foreign language speaking skills. The Language Learning Journal. DOI: 10.1080/09571736.2015.1010448
Pachler, N., Evans, M., Redondo, A. and Fisher, L. (2014). Learning to Teach Foreign Languages in the Secondary School.Fourth edition. London: Routledge
Fisher L. & Kim, D. (2013). Two approaches to the use of blogs in pre-service foreign language teachers' professional development: a comparative study in the context of two universities in the UK and the US. Language Learning Journal 41(2) 142-160. doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2013.790130
Fisher, L. (2013). Discerning Change in Young Students’ Beliefs about their Language Learning through the use of Metaphor Elicitation in the Classroom. Research Papers in Education 28(3), 373-392 doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2011.648654
