Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

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Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Richard Kiely [+-]
University of Southampton
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Richard Kiely is interested in language teacher learning from a sociocultural theory (SCT) perspective: understanding how the TESOL imagination is furnished and refurbished in teacher education courses and through work. The essential features of the language curriculum are forged in large part in classroom interaction, with the contribution of the teacher as the major determinant.
Pauline Rea-Dickins [+-]
University of Bristol
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Professor Rea-Dickins has been involved in language testing and assessment research, teacher development and programme evaluations in a variety of English language education contexts world-wide. Before moving to Bristol in 1999, she worked at the Universities of Lancaster, Dar es Salaam and Warwick. Pauline's research and publication interests in classroom-based assessment are situated at the interfaces between formative language assessment, instructed second language acquisition and language proficiency testing. She also undertakes research into the consequential validity of high stakes language examinations, in particular their impact on student identity, learning and progression. Pauline has successfully supervised 19 doctoral students since joining the University of Bristol, in different areas of Applied Linguistics, in particular language testing and assessment.
Helen Woodfield [+-]
University of Bristol
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Helen's research interests focus on second language acquisition, interlanguage pragmatics (Phd.Bristol 2004), cross-cultural pragmatics and linguistic politeness. Her PhD research investigated ESL learners' and native speakers' written and oral responses to discourse completion tasks combining paired verbal report with written production questionnaires. Conference presentations and publications focus on interlanguage pragmatics, variational pragmatics and methodology in interlanguage pragmatics research. Recent funded research projects (Teachers into Researchers) have examined the development of teachers as researchers in contexts of HE. Helen is currently Co-Director of Masters Programmes (with Elisabeth Lazarus) and contributes to postgraduate and doctoral programmes in TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the Graduate School of Education. Helen teaches on the EdD TESOL programme (Language and Communication; Researching Language Classrooms) and co-ordinates the research network 'Linguistnet' with Dr Frances Giampapa.
Gerald Clibbon [+-]
University of Bristol
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English language teaching, language learning, English language teacher learning, academic learning skills.

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Language, Culture and Identity is a collection of papers from the BAAL Annual Conference at the University of Bristol 2005. The thirteen papers, by researchers from Britain and across Europe, represent a range of research orientations within Applied Linguistics which connect in different ways with issues in culture and identity. Two plenary addresses from the conference, by Roz Ivanič and Srikant Sarangi, explore the themes of identity and culture in contexts of learning and of work. Papers addressing language planning and policy issues present recent analyses of francophone identity in Canada and Sami identity in Finland. The issues of culture and identity in writing are explored in different papers from the perspective of identity construction in academic writing, discipline cultures in higher education contexts, the consequences of these for interdisciplinary writers, and how writers construct audience identity though the linguistic choices they make. Empirical studies of language learning and teaching are also represented, with papers on Processing Instruction and Intercultural Pragmatics. The themes of identity and culture in these papers connect a range of sub-disciplines within Applied Linguistics, and also connect knowledge building in Applied Linguistics with pervasive themes in research across the social sciences, into the ways people as individuals and in communities understand, shape and represent their experiences of learning and work. An introduction to the book.

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Kiely, Richard ; Rea-Dickins, Pauline; Woodfield, Helen; Clibbon, Gerald . Introduction. Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-6 Dec 2006. ISBN 9781845532192. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25605. Date accessed: 19 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25605. Dec 2006

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