The Centre for Research on Language and Education is the intellectual home for staff and post-graduate students of language education and Applied Linguistics in the Graduate School of Education. This means:
investigating theory and practice issues in areas such as language learning and teaching, testing and assessment, language programme evaluation, intercultural awareness and pragmatics;
developing innovative methodologies for research across a diverse range of multicultural and multilingual contexts;
securing research grants from a range of sources;
disseminating the results of our research in Applied Linguistics journals and other publications; and
supporting learning about research among all our students as a means of achieving enhanced understanding of language issues in society and improved practices in all aspects of language education.
Current research in the centre focuses in particular on these topic areas:
testing and assessment, including conceptually and methodologically innovative research on assessment by teachers and effects of new technologies;
language programme evaluation, including research on curriculum development and quality assurance in English for Academic Purpose;
teacher education and learning; and
language and identity in multilingual contexts.
CREOLE develops its research culture through events and activities that are coordinated by different members. In this way CREOLE is collectively organised by its members and coordinated by Dr Frances Giampapa and Dr Helen Woodfield.
The diverse research domains and interests represented by CREOLE members are:
Language Testing (Dr Guoxing Yu, Vanda Papafilippou, Maggi Lussi-Bell)
Classroom-based Language Assessment (Lin Shwu-wen, Rashid Al-Hinai)
Language Programme Evaluation (Ali Al-Zefeiti, Anthony Clark)
Multilingualism and Multilingual Education / English as an Additional/second Language
(Dr Frances Giampapa)
Language and Literacy Development (Dr Frances Giampapa, Heryati Bakrin, Alfred Ampah-Mensah)
Interlanguage Pragmatics and Inter- and Intra-Cultural Awareness (Dr Helen Woodfield, Wei Ren, Rebecca Lin)
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (Elizabeth Lazarus, Dr Helen Woodfield, Jim Askham, Kinaz Murshid, Elizabeth Anthony, Jessica Xu, Kuei-Ju Tsai, Lu Feng-Chin, Elizabeth Darracott, Tony Shannon-Little, Peter Jones, Susana Antonakoudi, Mariam Al-Mohammad, Navarat Techachokwiwat)
English for Academic Purposes (Gerald Clibbon, Ali Al- Zefeiti, Hania Salter-Dvorak, Polly Mercer)
Language Teacher Development (Dr Frances Giampapa, Anthony Clark, Juthamas Thongsongsee, Christine Irvine-Niakaris, Zhenping Zhu)
Language, Literacy and Socio-Economic Development (Dr Guoxing Yu)
