is Head of Department and Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics
at the University of Essex (UK). Her research interests
include academic literacies, English as an Additional
Language learners, and student identity in writing at
university.
on the British Council website,
register “often refers to the degree of formality of
language, but in a more general sense it means the
language used by a group of people who share similar
work or interests, such as doctors or lawyers.”
So there are certain types of
vocabulary that we know
remain relatively consistent
The University of Manchester in the UK has an excellent
which contains lots of very useful
fixed academic phrases for areas such as: being
cautious, being critical, classifying and listing, describing
trends, giving examples, and signifying transition.
L1, L2
L1 is used to refer to the student's first language, while
L2 is used in the same way to refer to their second
language or the language they are currently learning.
, “Language change is the
phenomenon by which permanent alterations are made
in the features and the use of a language over time. All
natural languages change, and language change affects
all areas of language use. Types of language change
include sound changes, lexical changes, semantic
changes, and syntactic changes.”
Colloquial language
Colloquial language is a similar idea to ‘slang’. You can
read an interesting article on the British Council website
about it
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describes itself as “a multilingual neural machine
translation service developed by Google to translate text,
documents and websites from one language into
another”.
Field report
Aleks Palanac
You can find out more about Aleks’ background and her
research interests
A refugee is someone who has left their own country
because they are at risk of serious human rights
violations, and their claim to asylum has been recognised
by the government of the country in which they are living.
An asylum seeker is a person who has, similarly, left their
own country because of the danger they are in, but their
claim has not yet been decided, and they are awaiting an
official decision.
Universities of Sanctuary is “a national network of
university staff, lecturers, academics and students.
Together we are working to make Higher Education
institutions places of safety, solidarity and empowerment
for people seeking sanctuary.” You can discover more at
A pre-sessional programme is an intensive course which
students take in order to develop to develop their
language skills so that they can participate successfully in
a course at HE level.
IELTS
IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
claims to be “the world's most popular English language
test for higher education and global migration”. You can
discover more about IELTS
about
participatory pedagogy, where students are seen as
partners in the learning process, its aims are “to promote
the ideals of equity, equality and co-agency with the aim
of modelling this effectively within our classrooms so that
it reflects and spreads across the school community and
wider society.” A participatory pedagogy is one in which
students play an vital and active role in the development
of the course itself – particular with regards to its
contents, and the specific areas of focus.