School of Education
Language Education
What we do
The Language Education team at the School of Education is involved in a range of research, knowledge transfer and consultancy work in the UK and internationally covering the following areas in relation to TESOL, EFL, ESOL and Modern Foreign Languages:
- Academic literacies
- Metaphor
- Corpus linguistics
- Classroom-based language learning and discourse
- Motivation
- Language in primary education
- Teaching English to young learners
- English as an Additional Language
- Adult ESOL
- Language teacher education and development
- Teacher cognition
- Language and development
- Educational change management
- Language learning and ICT
- Language teacher research
We offer a regular programme of academic seminars throughout the year in which members of the Language Education team and invited speakers talk about their research. Members of the team are also regularly invited to speak at national and international language education conferences.
Doing research with us
The School of Education provides a stimulating, friendly and nurturing environment for doctoral students. Within the School, the Language Education team provides excellent doctoral supervision in the wide range of areas covered by the team’s expertise (see the above list of current doctoral projects). Our research students benefit from regular meetings with two supervisors and receive further support for their work through a programme of seminars and workshops. All doctoral students are also given research methods training and have the opportunity to talk about their own research at our annual research students’ conference. Overall, through these activities we seek to enable research students to excel and to be an integral part of the Language Education team at Leeds.
Testimonials
“Happy PhD memories: Invaluable supervision and an inspirational research experience” (Mark Wyatt, PhD graduate, 2008).
“My Phd at Leeds was a unique life experience and I’m already reaping the rewards” (Nabhan Al-Lamki, PhD graduate, 2009).
“There is massive support from supervisors and the entire School” (Charles Ong’Ondo, PhD graduate, 2009).