About

The aim of this cluster is to provide a dialogic space for researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to critically explore the affordances and tensions inherent in the study of language theories, practices, policies and ideologies within and across societies. We will do this by focusing on a number of interrelated domains including, but not limited to:

• Multilingual landscape
• Transnational mobility and plurlingual identities
• Language and the globalised workplace
• Minority language spaces
• Virtual language practices
• Language education
• Language in/of education
• Translanguaging
• Language learning pedagogies and policies
• Standardised language ideologies
• Native speakerism
• Linguistic discrimination
• Language in conflicts
• Language in/of the media
• Linguistic variation and change
• Language as a cognitive phenomenon
• First language acquisition
• Additional language acquisition
• Language processing

Invited speaker events, cluster member presented research, reading groups and conferences will highlight the work of Applied Linguists within the School and provide opportunities for cooperation and collaboration with colleagues from across the university and beyond.

Cluster Convenors