We are very delighted to have Prof. Alice Deignan Alice Deignan University of Leeds for Plenary Talk 2 #BAALVocab24. Many great insights drawn from her research: Word lists, polysemy and metaphor in academic discourse at school BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Yen Dang

My first Vocab presentation at BAAL Vocab SIG

Live from #BAALVocab24 Xuechun Huang presenting her work in progress: Testing the four strands principle on vocabulary learning for EFL learners BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Dr Elina Stylianou Yen Dang

What a great presentation! Xuechun Huang! 💫

Amani Al Onayzan discussing Using Contrastive Connectors in Arab and Native Students’ Argumentative Writing: A Corpus-Based Study at #BAALVocab24 conference here at Leeds. BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Dr Elina Stylianou Yen Dang

Rebecca Moden talks about boosting learners’ ability to use single words and formulaic sequences creatively in L2 writing through explicit instruction at #BAALVocab24 BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Dr Elina Stylianou Yen Dang

Professor Tess Fitzpatrick Tess Fitzpatrick starting her thought-provoking Plenary Talk on Vocabulary acquisition: Connecting perspectives in Welsh language education. #BAALVocab24 BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Yen Dang Richard Badger

Live from #BAALVocab24 Samanan Sudsa-ard discusses factors affecting retention of productive word knowledge of Thai EFL learners. BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Yen Dang Dr Elina Stylianou

Another interesting research presented by Xuan Zhao here at #BAALVocab24 conference. Her study aims to develop a scale to measure learners’ engagement in learning English vocabulary using technology. BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Yen Dang Dr Elina Stylianou

Interesting discussion by Chen Chen on developing a knowledge-based academic vocabulary list at #BAALVocab24 BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Yen Dang Dr Elina Stylianou

Insightful talk by Natalie Finlayson on creating and evaluating frequency-informed vocabulary lists for adolescent, beginner to low-intermediate learners of French, German and Spanish. #BAALVocab24 BAAL Vocab SIG Centre for Language Education Research Dr Elina Stylianou Yen Dang

Uni of Leeds new research project, 'Young people, criticality and figurative language' (tinyurl.com/y56h68tf), is recruiting a full-time fixed-term research fellow, based in Leeds, UK. See jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r….

Great opportunity not to be missed!

Happy to share that our article is one of the top 10 most-cited articles published by Language Learning in 2022-2023 #TopCitedArticle

UPDATE! The project is now recruiting a second full-time fixed-term research fellow, to be based at Birmingham University, working with Jeannette Littlemore and the wider project team. See: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

The website for Vocab@Maryland is available now: go.umd.edu/vocabatmaryland A great place for SLA researchers to convene. June 14-18, 2025 Conference + Summer School

Call for abstracts | Special issue of System | Critical digital literacy: Language, technology and power. Guest editors: Ron Darvin + Christoph Hafner. Details can be found here: sciencedirect.com/journal/system…

Happy to share our Open-access publication ‘Student talk as a source for incidental vocabulary learning: what can corpora tell us?’ #openaccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our invited blog is published and the presentation has been well received at BERA/WERA2024: Reimagine essay-based assessment in higher education in the era of generative artificial intelligence bera.ac.uk/?p=52837 via BERA Centre for Language Education Research Education at Leeds