Applied Linguistics, English Language & ELT at Reading

We are thrilled to announce that Iwona Gibas passed her PhD viva today. Warmest congratulations Dr Gibas from proud DELAL team 🤩🎉🎊 Here with the two examiners (one on the laptop) and the first supervisor 🤗

Many congratulations to our PhD student, Rosy Ortiz Saenz, for her excellent performance at her viva. Rosy, we will miss you at the department.
Thanks to Rosy's supervisors and examiners.

Dr Themistocleous, in collaboration with Dr Cavusoglu, presenting their work at the 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Perth, Australia

Title: Experiencing the uninhabited traumascape of a divided capital: An ethnographic investigation of Nicosia's UN-controlled buffer zone

Introducing A-level students to the relevance and beauty of studying English Language at today's taster sessions: Dr Fraibet Aveledo on The Child’s marvellous journey to developing interrogative questions and Prof Sylvia Jaworska on Language & Gender in Workplace - lot's of interesting comments, personal insights and observations from our visitors

Jane’s last external talk in Japan was to the Modern English Circle research group, who meet near Osaka. And of course, there was delicious Japanese food afterwards!

Absolutely delighted to announce that the Journal Corpora has selected the recently published study by Dr Dina Sibai and Prof Jaworska to be published as Open Access! Thank you Corpora for making the study available to wider audiences🙏🤩

Triangulating visual and textual corpus-assisted discourse analysis to study social actor representations:
https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2024.0298

Jane gave the Keynote Lecture at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Practical English Phonetic Society of Japan (Kansai Chapter), Osaka Seikei University on Saturday 15th June, 2024. Here she is in action and at the after party with some of the conference deletates.

Another fantastic day at the Open Day on Saturday! Lots of positive comments from our visitors about our diverse and forward-looking programme in English Lang and Linguistics 📱💻🎙🎥📕📝📊🤖🧠🗣📑 and the beautiful green campus 🌲🦋🌷🌳🪻

Buzzing atmosphere and super interesting questions from A-level students today at our Open Days. Great to see this level of interest in our subject matters 🤩😊

The Employability of our Graduates from DELAL is again 100% 🤩🥳 The world needs linguists from DELAL obviously 😃

A truly multidisciplinary endeavour at the new frontiers today! Staff and students having fun and unleashing their creativity in designing AI agents with AI experts from tomoro.ai in a workshop organised by Prof Rodney Jones (DELAL), Prof Sylvia Jaworska (DELAL), Dr Tatiana Rowson (HBS) and Dr Rob Banham (TGC). Planning more of this kind work, so watch the space 🤩🧐🤓

Jane is in Japan at the moment as a Visiting Professor at Kobe Gakuin University. Here she is, presenting at Kyoto Prefectural University, and having lunch with Prof Michiyo Yamaguchi and student Yu Pingcheng.

Congratulations Yi Ru (Jeremy) on the successful defence of his PhD thesis today, with minor corrections! Here he is with (L-R) Internal Examiner Prof Rodney Jones, (on the PC) first supervisor Prof Jane Setter, External Examiner Dr Ying Wang (Southampton), and second supervisor Dr Tony Capstick. The title of his thesis is "The Effectiveness of Teaching English Pronunciation with Lingua Franca Core Goals to Chinese Adult Learners".

Jane is making the most of opportunities while she’s on secondment in Japan. Here’s a news article from the Kobe Gakuin University website (you may find Google Translate helpful!):

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Listen to Prof Jane Setter on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning talking about the Berkshire and Reading accent(s) here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hscwrl
The segment is immediately after Blondie's "Sunday Girl" from just after 2:41:00.

Kirsten O'Brien - 15/05/2024 - BBC Sounds Trusted local breakfast news, information, advice and great music with Kirsten.

Congratulations to Cornée Ferreira for her successful performance in her viva today, and many thanks to her examiners Marije Mi Chele and Holly Joseph for their inspiring comments and supportive feedback.

We are incredibly proud to see this article published in Corpora - a product of stimulating and critical research work by Dr Dina Sibai (our former PhD student) and Prof Sylvia Jaworska 🎊🎉🌟

Triangulating visual and textual corpus-assisted discourse analysis to study social actor representations: the case of Saudi women in the British and Saudi news media | Corpora Investigations of social actor representations across media present a large and important body of research in corpus-assisted discourse studies (cads). However, most studies focus exclusively on one mode, the text, whilst other modes of communication (for example, visuals) are either considered part...

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Arts & Humanities at Reading
(to which we proudly belong)
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and 19th in the UK!

Eid Mubarak to all our followers celebrating it!

Delighted to announce that our own Prof Parvaneh Tavakoli, renowned expert on task-based learning and assessment, will be a keynote speaker at the next Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) conference taking place 2 - 4 April 2025 at the University of Groningen 🎉🎊

Hurry up! The Call for Papers closes on 15th May 2024. The theme of the conference is “Task-Based Leveraging of Technology”. Detailed information can be found at the conference website

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Happy Easter to all our followers celebrating it!

Wishing all our followers who celebrate it a very colourful Holi!

Check out Dr Erhan Aslan’s and Prof Sylvia Jaworska’s latest article on academic email signatures of applied linguists. Free to download from the link below:

https://academic.oup.com/applij/advance-article/doi/10.1093/applin/amae019/7627365?login=false

Are or were you the first in your immediate family to attend university? Or do you know someone who is/was? If so, this pilot podcast episode, produced with students and staff as partners, is for you!
https://youtu.be/mxBLePua52I
We would be delighted to have feedback on our pilot episode. We are aiming to apply for follow-up funding to produce a series of episodes featuring interviews with current and former students, policy makers, family members and friends, and anyone with an interest in this topic. There is a link to a feedback questionnaire in the shownotes below the podcast.

Pilot! First In Family Podcast We'd love your feedback! Tell us what you think: https://forms.office.com/e/W4pStChKDbThe First In Family podcast is for potential, current and former univer...

Blessed and peaceful Ramadan to all our followers observing it.

We presented our recent research findings at the British Council Future of English Conference at Aston University today.

Bilingual benefits in the aging and neurodegenerative illnesses population Online talk to explore the advantages of bilingualism

Thank you, Langley Grammar School, for inviting us to speak at your English Language Festival on Tuesday! It was good to meet your A level English Language students and the students from other schools. Here are Jane, Sylvia and Erhan in action.

Very pleased to announce that we will be running our popular INSET for A level English Language Teachers again, 8-11 July 2024! For information and enrolment, visit our website:

Reading INSET - Department of English and Applied Linguistics Find out more about our outreach activities, including Reading INSET at the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, including course content,, teaching staff and more.