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Barbara Skinner

Barbara Skinner is a Professor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)and Education in the School of Education at Ulster University. Barbara lectures on a range of teacher...

Literacy and Language – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Members of this SIG have interests in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural studies and multi-modality (the...

Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.

Using art to represent science: A visualisation of student motivation data

Data comes in many forms, some more accessible than others. At the recent BERA conference, I tried to address this with a poster presenting quantitative data in an unexpected way. The data came...

Chinglish versus China English: A need to determine ‘correct’ English among our Chinese students

Mention ‘Chinglish’ to Chinese students and they’ll probably giggle nervously. The term was coined to describe the attempts of Chinese people to use English, with the implication being that...

Making words stick is primary practice

The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is responsible for inspecting the quality of education in a range of schools and settings in England, and for reporting its findings to government....

Literacy and Language – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Literacy and Language SIG aims: to establish a voice in BERA with regard to policy and practice for research into language and literacy in education to create a...

Janet Soler

Senior Lecturer

Dr Soler is a senior lecturer, chair of modules in the inclusive practice pathway, Area G Coordinator for the Language and Literacy area in the Educational Doctorate Programme, and convenor for...

Phonological processing and mathematical achievements: A new look at the gender gap in mathematics

Phonological processing refers to an individual’s sensitivity to the sounds of a language, and the capacity to use these sounds to decode linguistic information. It is noted that phonological...

We need to talk about language: The researcher view

Coming from a background in community learning and development, my work in partnership with Banff Academy as part of my PhD research has been an interesting and rewarding experience. I find myself...

Claire Needler

Claire Needler is an ethnology PhD student in the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. Her current research area is contemporary use of the Scots language among young people in the north...

Call for Papers: 2nd Language Policy Forum

Call for Papers: 2nd Language Policy Forum (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Edinburgh, 30-31 May 2019   Following our highly successful inaugural conference in 2018 - where...