Early childhood bilingualism: Effects on brain structure and function: Research Associate at UCL Continue reading
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Funding success!
It’s time for another one of these updates!
We are very pleased to announce that Amos Paran, Andrea Revesz and Myrrh Domingo (as PI) have won a grant from the Centre for Distance Education for a proposal called ‘Exploring factors that influence the impact of MOOC learning on participants’ professional practice’. Continue reading
Do you read Swedish?
The Swedish translation of Ofelia Garcia and Li Wei’s BAAL book Prize winning book, Translanguaging is out. Check it out! (Or you can read it in English, if that’s easier.)
Job Opportunity!
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London (UCL), UK- Ref:1708693 Continue reading
New book on Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
Drawings taken from Lancaster University’s ‘Metaphor Menu’, a collection of examples of different ways in which people described their experiences with cancer
This week sees the publication of ‘Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: a corpus-based study’ by Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne and Paul Rayson. The book is the culmination of an ESRC-funded project on metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life in the UK by Lancaster University and University College London researchers. Continue reading
Funding success!
We’ve just received news that a project led by Prof. Li Wei has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust!
The project, called ‘Early childhood bilingualism: Effects on brain structure and function’, will run for 36 months and open up new collaborations with colleagues in the Institute of Child Health.
We will keep the updates coming.
New Journal: Language, Culture and Society
Li Wei, Miguel Pérez-Milans, and Alfonso Del Percio are founding editors of the new international journal Language, Culture and Society (John Benjamins), available soon
Language, Culture and Society provides an international platform for Continue reading
Another funding success!
We are very pleased to begin the new academic year by announcing that Miguel Pérez-Milans has received funding from UCL’s global engagement funds, as part of the East Asia scheme: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global/funding-opportunities/ucl-global-engagement-funds/global-engagement-funds
The project:
Meanings, Practices and Trajectories of Internationalisation in China: A pilot Study in Higher Education. Continue reading
Visiting researchers
Those of you keeping an eye on us, will have noticed a new page to our website. We are and will be featuring our present and past visiting scholars on the page and in a series of blog posts. Here’s the second – this time, a visiting student.
Visiting researchers
Those of you keeping an eye on us, will have noticed a new page to our website. We are and will be featuring our present and past visiting scholars on the page and in a series of blog posts. Here’s the first.
Dr Melinda Dooly from the Department of Language and Literature Education and Social Continue reading
