Professor John Flowerdew

Professor in Applied Linguistics

Tel: +44 (0)113 3435863

Room: HP 1.12

Email: j.l.flowerdew@education.leeds.ac.uk

Discourse analysis, Critical discourse analysis, English for Specific Purposes, Corpus linguistics, Curriculum theory and practice, Qualitative research methodologies.

Member of Centre for Language Education Research.

Interests

My research and teaching focuses on language in use, in particular in English as an additional language contexts. I have done work on academic discourse, political discourse, English for Specific Purposes, second language listening, and curriculum theory and practice. My approach is problem driven and I use a range of methodologies, from the micro analysis of texts (including corpus based analysis) to more ethnographic approaches to data collection and analysis.

Research

I have authored or edited 12 books and special editions of journals, written 16 book chapters and published over 40 internationally refereed journal articles. I have published in most of the leading Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis journals, including Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society, English Language Teaching Journal, English for Specific Purposes Journal, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language in Society, Text and Talk, and TESOL Quarterly.

Recent Presentations

  • "Issues of identity in academic discourse." Invited keynote paper presented at International Conference on Identity in Academic Discourse, Rome, October, 2007.
  • "Doing qualitative research in Hong Kong". Invited keynote paper presented at Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics Research Forum. Hong Kong, June, 2007.
  • "Problems and strategies in scholarly literacy." Paper presented at American Association of Applied Linguistic conference, Costa Mesa, CA, April, 2007.
  • "Social structure and individual agency in second language learning: evidence from three life histories." (with Lindsay Miller) Paper presented at conference on Social and Cognitive aspects of Second Language Acquisition, Auckland, April, 2007.
  • "Writing for scholarly publication: plagiarism, notes from the underground, and some reflections on stigma." Invited keynote paper presented at International conference on Publishing and presenting research internationally: Issues for speakers of English as an Additional Language. University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, January, 2007.
  • "Issues in second language writing." Invited keynote paper presented at Tamkang International Conference on Second Language Writing, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2006.

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