JOB: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition project. Closing date: Wednesday 4th December. Please RT to spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Job opportunity: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics linguistictransition.leeds.ac.uk/job-opportunit…

To warm us up, the first question is, “How do you get started when you need to write a paper?” Remember to use the tags #AcWriMo #CamCov and get talking in the thread below :D Cambridge University Press - Academic

Just one week until the deadline for our Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics post University of Leeds, working on the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition project to explore the differences in academic language between primary and secondary school.

Paper accepted for Corpora Journal with Dr Robbie Love, the first from the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition project. "Using corpus methods to identify subject specific uses of polysemous words in English secondary school science materials". Pre-print: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/154115/

We have a paper for the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition project accepted for ICAME41 in Heidelberg! “Teacher talk and the school transition”, exploring our spoken corpus, with colleagues Alice Deignan, Dr Duygu Candarli and Gary Chambers

Two papers accepted for @ICAME41: one for the @leedstransition project and the other one co-authored with my colleague @YenDang61914935! #ICAME41

Our research has contributed to the 2020 Oxford Language Report on the impact of the ‘vocabulary gap’ in the transition from primary to secondary school. Alice Deignan @OxfordEdEnglish report. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ox…?

The 2020 Oxford Language Report featuring our research is summarised by Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish in the TES tes.com/news/revealed-…

An excellent blog-post by Gary Chambers, one of the co-investigators of this project, about year 7 students' views about challenging words and phrases they encounter in Maths, English, Geography, History and Sciences.

It was great to present some findings about the lexical / grammatical complexity of teacher talk as part of the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition yesterday with Alice Deignan for English at Aston University’s ‘Through the Language Lens’ seminar series. Thanks to all who attended. Recording available soon!

I'm looking forward to this! I'll be talking about our project in general and then the challenges presented by apparently straightforward vocabulary in Key Stage 3, developing from work by myself and Dr Robbie Love.

Alice Deignan Alice Deignan Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @Education_Leeds Centre for Language Education Research discusses the the range of academic #language encountered by students in YR 7/8 in in comparison with the language of YR 5/6 at primary #linguistics #primarytransition #education buff.ly/3nzvdsS

And we've got a free twilight on April 22nd which will include more of the findings from the transition project Alice Deignan Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @Education_Leeds researchschool.org.uk/huntington/eve…

Speaking at my first in-person conference since March 2020 tomorrow: #rED21 session 4, with Marcus Jones on our findings about science vocabulary at KS2 and KS3

Is there a "slump" in literacy and vocabulary between Year 6 and 7? Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky and colleagues decided to investigate, and here's what they found... tes.com/magazine/teach…

Our book about the corpus research on the project is published today. Ebook free to download routledge.com/The-Linguistic…

Such an important topic, really looking forward to this discussion.

Michael Inglis and I have contributed a blog to this series, about the language of science education at the primary-secondary transition. We write about some findings from our Economic and Social Research Council project Linguistic Challenges of the Transition, based at @Education_Leeds .

I'm delighted to be speaking at this event, about findings from the Linguistic Challenges of the Transition project on the language of school, at @Education_Leeds, in collaboration with Marcus Jones at Huntington Research. Looking forward to hearing experts on this really important issue.