Applied Linguistics - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Research in Applied Linguistics covers a number of leading-edge research themes. The academic staff are engaged in research on various aspects of Applied Linguistics. Exploring how language and linguistics are used in different contexts, their research makes significant contributions which reflect on cutting-edge issues in the area.

Expertise

Systemic functional linguistics
Cross-language movement in a variety of contexts
Language in performance
Textual analysis of literary and dramatic texts
Approaches to literacy and language skills for post-secondary writers
Bi/multilingualism and the effects of aging on language learning
Morphosyntax processing and visual word and character processing in language combinations
Second language acquisition and instruction
Discourse analysis
Intercultural communications

Postgraduate Research

The School of Education and English provides a very supportive postgraduate environment for curious mind. The postgraduate students’ research is also wide ranging, exploring such topics as critical discourse analysis of political and literary texts, corpus-based analysis of academic music discourse, intercultural communications, and Neuro-cognitive effects of second language learning in older learners. Visit our postgraduate research page to view more information.