Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
We are world-leading experts in Applied Linguistics, focusing in particular on Second Language Acquisition. Our research employs text-based and behavioural methods to address real-world issues.
We have pioneered corpus-based, phraseological approaches to the study of language, and new approaches to the teaching of English for Academic Purposes, academic literacy, and the use of literature in the language classroom.
Areas of research include:
- Advertising, branding and communications
- Cognitive Linguistic approaches to language teaching
- English for Academic Purposes
- Figurative language development
- First and second language acquisition
- Forensic linguistics
- Health and social care
- Second language learning and teaching
- Learner corpora
- Sign language acquisition
Researchers
Researchers
- Dr Gareth Carrol - Senior Lecturer in Psycholinguistics
- Professor Dagmar Divjak - Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition
- David Evans - Teaching Fellow
- Professor Suganthi John - Professor of English Language
- Dr Alexander Laffer - Teaching Fellow
- Professor Jeannette Littlemore - Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics
- Mr Daniel Malt - Teaching Fellow
- Professor Petar Milin - Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning
- Dr Akira Murakami - Birmingham Fellow
- Dr Gerardo Ortega - Associate Professor
- Dr Petra Schoofs - Lecturer in TESOL
- Dr Paul Thompson - Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics
- Dr Crayton Walker - Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics