What a fascinating venue to engage in rountable discussions on oracy, ideology&standardisation with reps from the ESU, AQA, Pearson, OCR, SLUK & ESB, funded by @livunihss.bsky.social Thank you Victorina Gonzalez Diaz and @voice21oracy.bsky.social for the organisation! @livunienglish.bsky.social
Chris Jones
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Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. All views my own. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian-Jones-5
Great to see another positive review of this!
Thanks to Bernard Cassie for this nice open-access review of 'The Big Beasts of English Grammar...', which I co-authored with @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Thanks to Bernard Cassie for this nice open-access review of 'The Big Beasts of English Grammar...', which I co-authored with @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Review: Jones and Burton. 2024. The Big Beasts of English Grammar: An Exploration of Form and Function in Conversations. Hong Kong: Candlin and Mynard | Corpora
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We're advertising two part-time research assistant posts to help with a funded project connected to public health language and imagery. Feel free to share with interested parties. Details: Post 1 tinyurl.com/37nfbnyf Post 2 tinyurl.com/bdfk9655
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....
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...
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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 Read more 👇 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 ⬇️
We're very proud that 12 of our subject areas placed in the top 100 worldwide in the 2026 QS Top Universities World Rankings by Subject with Anatomy & Physiology and Veterinary Science in the top 50! 👏 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/03/25/l... Well done #TeamLivUni 💙
📢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 📢
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. Details⬇️ www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
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....
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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...
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...
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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...
Prof. Michael Hoey - IATEFL 2014 Harrogate
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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 ⬇️
Master's students | Study | University of Liverpool
We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to support talented master's students from every background. Some scholarships have a competitive application process and others are awarded automaticall...
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Introducing four new Liverpool scholarships for 2026 🎓🎉✨ 📚 Liverpool Excellence Scholarship 🎓 Liverpool Advancement Scholarship 💫 Liverpool Attainment Scholarship for India 🌏 Liverpool Achievement Scholarship for India @livunihss.bsky.social Find out more 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
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...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Awards 2025
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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...
The John McGahern Annual Book Prize
Join us for the 2025 Liverpool Literary Festival
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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 Limerick Corpus of spoken Irish English (LCIE) is now in Sketch Engine. Many thanks to Prof. @fionafarr.bsky.social , @unioflimerick.bsky.social, and Prof. Anne O’Keeffe, @micireland.bsky.social & UL, for permission to include it. www.sketchengine.eu/limerick-cor...
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. youtu.be/Zafx24UvFg8?...
The Big BEASTS of English Grammar: What we Need to UNLEARN - Graham Burton
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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!
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' open.spotify.com/episode/5bJw...
Language Learning and the Difficulty of Spoken Grammar
The Bibliography · Episode
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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
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...
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Great choice of book @martintesol.bsky.social! Library looks fantastic too.
It's finally arrived (at Akita International University's Nakajima Library)! Look forward to reading it and will try to finish soon so others get a chance to borrow it. 😅 @eltresearch.bsky.social @grahburton.bsky.social @candlinmynard.bsky.social
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...
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…
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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
Current Issue – GFL Journal
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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 gfl-journal.de/article/spok...
Learner conversations as models of spoken language in second language German – GFL Journal
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This monograph on #SpeechActs was published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social in 2021.It has received several positive reviews and is now currently being translated into Chinese by #ZhejiangUP. If you work in #ESL #EFL or #ConstructionGrammar, this may be of interest.Happy #WorldBookDay ! ➡️ bit.ly/44echH1