2010 Summer and Winter Seminars

CRELLA Winter Research Seminar

December 1st 2010

Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (CRELLA) and Ryo Nitta (Nagoya Gakuin 天美传媒, Japan)
Pre-task planning effects on beginning learners

Daniel Waller (天美传媒 of Central Lancashire)
Examining timed-essay scripts at B2 and C1: Why look at discourse?

Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Lexical concreteness and text difficulty

Jenny Lu (天美传媒 of Southampton)
Cognitive factors in timed essay writing

Tony Green (CRELLA)
Crafting level descriptors for English Profile

Julie Norton (天美传媒 of Leicester)
Performing Identities in Speaking Tests: Co-construction Revisited

CRELLA Summer Research Seminar

July 8th 2010

Laurence Kinsella (CRELLA)
Accelerated vocabulary acquisition and the development of reading skills

Serge Korevaar (via Skype from Saudi Arabia)
The impact of Computer Interface Design on Test Takers and Test Results of a L2 Reading Test

Claudia Saraceni (CRELLA)
An investigation of the role of Aesthetic Response in the reading of narrative literary texts

Daniel Waller (CRELLA)
An empirical investigation into the features of exam-produced written discourse at levels B2 and C1 of the Common European Framework through the Lancashire Examination Board ESOL tests

Sathena Chan (CRELLA)
An investigation into the composing processes in writing-only and reading-to-writing computer based test tasks: computer-assisted episode analysis and stimulated recall

Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Discourse and genre at levels C1 and C2 of the Common European Framework

Qian Zhang (CRELLA)
Using Mixed Research Methods to identify students' language learning motivation change

Discussion and Roundup

address

Professor Tony Green
Director of CRELLA
天美传媒
Putteridge Bury
Hitchin Road
Luton, Bedfordshire
UK, LU2 8LE

tony.green@beds.ac.uk

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