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Learners' Perceived Development of Spoken Grammar Awareness after Corpus‐Informed Instruction: An Exploration of Learner Diaries Developing spoken grammar awareness is a crucial first step in fostering noticing habits (Schmidt, 1990) in second language learners. Classroom instruction using corpus-informed materials is an ideal...

Please to see this paper is amongst the most cited in 2024 from TESOL Quarterly. Open access :
Learners' Perceived Development of Spoken Grammar Awareness after Corpus‐Informed Instruction: An Exploration of Learner Diaries onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Big news 🎉 English Language and Literature is now ranked in the global top 100 in the 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject 🌍📚

Huge congratulations to the Department of English 👏@livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/news...

Great to see our English department in the top 100 QS subject rankings for English Language and Literature, one of 12 subject areas in the university@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Details ⬇️

📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arr. @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢

Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom This book highlights the role of peer interaction in the foreign language (FL) classroom and explores the different factors and contexts that mediate its effect on target language use and development....

New publication from Dr Nektaria Kourtali of@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social. Her study on Greek children’s foreign language anxiety reveals how modality of interaction shapes learners’ affective experiences.
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I once pitched a research project on this to a large tech company. Alexa/bots are often bad at recognising accents or anything the programme sees as non-standard language. It locks out lots of users who the tech could help eg those with learning disabilities. They were a bit cool on the idea.

Corpus Linguistics for Curriculum Design Corpus Linguistics for Curriculum Design explores how corpora can be employed in the design of language curricula, both for English as a Foreign/Second Language and for other languages. This book prov...

Out now (well, three days ago)! My new book with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Corpus Linguistics for Curriculum Design. And there's currently a 25% discount for the ebook and paperback version for Black Friday! www.routledge.com/Corpus-Lingu...

Prof. Michael Hoey - IATEFL 2014 Harrogate YouTube video by Sebastian Lesniewski

Today is #nationallinguisticsday! To celebrate, here is a great talk from from our late colleague Professor Michael Hoey at IATEFL 2014, on lexical priming. One example of how our dept. applies linguistics to English language research. Enjoy! @sotauol.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlp5...

Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

Pleased to be awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant with @livunienglish.bsky.social colleague David Oakey for research using corpus linguistics to analyse phraseology/imagery/effectiveness of type 2 diabetes public health messaging. 👉 share.google/cByi9qS690yG...

Anyone interested in my recent book with @eltresearch.bsky.social and @candlinmynard.bsky.social might also be interested in the TRIP workshop series organised by @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social and supported by @eurosla.bsky.social. I'll be talking (on 5th November) about conditional forms!

📚LitFest weekend at @liverpooluni.bsky.social📚
Plenty of events for booklovers to look forward to including the reading and discussion by Anna Fitzgerald, winner of our John McGahern Book Prize
🗓️ 5:30pm, 19 October 2025
🧭 @victoriagallery.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-john-m...

As the familiar refrain of learning English = greater integration, I thought of Dr Sundus Ameer's well-researched study on this, which shows it is not so simple. I am biased as I was the supervisor! Read the whole thesis here: share.google/tYLWZ710rbQo...

Delighted to share this corpus with fellow researchers. Enjoy! And many thanks to Anne O’Keeffe and others who have worked on developing it over the years. @calsul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

The Big Beasts of English Grammar Aimed at teachers, researchers, and curriculum designers, the book encourages readers to rethink grammar explanations and instruction. It challenges long-standing rules and assumptions, also offering ...

More on our book here The Big Beasts of English Grammar - Candlin & Mynard share.google/vLzpZQDB4n0o...

The Big BEASTS of English Grammar: What we Need to UNLEARN - Graham Burton YouTube video by Learn YOUR English

Listen below to hear co-author @grahburton.bsky.social talking about our @candlinmynard.bsky.social book The Big Beasts of English Grammar and grammar issues in general.
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Less than a week to go until #CL2025!

The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme

Delighted to announce that the Limerick Corpus of Irish English is now available on Sketch Engine!

Language Learning and the Difficulty of Spoken Grammar The Bibliography · Episode

Last year we interviewed Dr Christian Jones (@eltresearch.bsky.social) and Dr David Oakey about their published article 'Learners' Perceived Development of Spoken Grammar Awareness after Corpus-Informed Instruction: An Exploration of Learner Diaries'

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Confs: 10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar

Grammar and Corpora The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. The corpus approach has helped redefine what a grammar is, leading gra...

It was an honour to be involved in updating this entry on 'Grammar and Corpora' for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, with @tonymcenery.bsky.social and originally authored by the late Richard Xiao: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Great choice of book @martintesol.bsky.social! Library looks fantastic too.

Interesting study on skill acquisition in L2 learning. OA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thanks for the post, will listen. Any idea why roads/streets get called 'X Street Road'?

Processing of computer-mediated feedback: An eye-tracking study The current study explored the extent to which the linguistic focus of interactional feedback influences levels of L2 learners' attention to target fe…

New publication by Nektaria Kourtali and Ziwei Guo from Dept of English @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social on the effects of one type of feedback (recasts) on noticing language within computer-mediated communication. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to share that our latest article on the #Learnerconversations project has been published! Thank you to @saschastollhans.bsky.social and @juditheberharter.bsky.social who edited this special issue of the #GFL journal.
gfl-journal.de/current-issu... @eltresearch.bsky.social

Just published! A description and rationale of our project making corpus-informed materials for spoken German. @livunilc.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Open access
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