The 24th annual European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop (ESFLCW 2013), will be held at Coventry University, July 1st-3rd 2013.
With a focus on langu...
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Genres across the Disciplines is a new book by Hilary Nesi and Sheena Gardner (both in the Department of English and Languages at Coventry University). It is in the Cambridge...
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Erik Borg’s 2009 article "Local Plagiarisms" is at the top of the "most read" articles list in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.
The full c...
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On 10th February 2012 we co-hosted with the IATEFL Research Special Interest Group (ReSIG) a 'Questionnaire Design and Analysis' workshop led by Zoltan Dornyei. This pract...
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The Department of English and Languages hosted a BAAL Corpus Special Interest Group meeting on December 9th 2011. The focus of the meeting was Dexter software for the coding ...
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Dr Ross Graham has been awarded funding for a three-year project entitled ‘Action Research as a tool for the improvement of academic writing programmes in Ethiopian universit...
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Dr Michael Cribb has received funding to research the language of international students’ oral presentations. The 12 month project will start in October 2011, and will lead ...
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On July 1st Sheena joined Coventry as the new Head of Department of English and Languages. Sheena’s research takes a broadly systemic functional perspective and focuses on tw...
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Simon’s Body, a short story by Alyson Morris, has been commended by judges in the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010. The Aesthetica Creative Works Annual 2011 showca...
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We have received JISC funding for a ’rapid innovation’ project (May-October), building a Word Tree interface which can be adapted for use with any corpus.
As a first step i...
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On 16 March 2011 the Department of English and Languages hosted the VIth Annual Conference of the Languages Virtual Learning Environments User Group.
This was jointly orga...
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Marina Orsini-Jones was a keynote speaker at the 6th annual e-Learning Symposium, 27-28 January 2011 , organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Stu...
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In December 2010 Ross Graham visited Zanzibar to present a paper at the SUZA –SPINE Symposium, hosted by State university of Zanzibar: “Building on the Grand Project: creatin...
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The Department of English and Languages hosted a BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event on 17 December 2010, with about 25 participants from universities far and near.
Diana M...
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