The Language Learning and Teaching Research team welcome expressions of interest from potential Higher Degree research candidates who believe they can make a contribution to our research programmes. More than 30 students are currently working towards Ph.D or Master of Research degrees in the field of language teaching and learning. Their topics include:

• Assessment of speaking
• Validating reading proficiency tests
• Feedback on writing
• Online vs. face-to-face feedback
• Problem-based tutorials in a second language
• Genre-based language curriculum
• Telecollaborative projects
• Synchronous Internet conferencing
• Self-directed learning
• Migrant English language training
• English language teacher professional development programmes
• Professional learning in transnational ELT centres
• Influences on non-native speaker teachers of English
• Language teacher autonomy
• Complex tasks and teacher development
• Language support for international students
• Students' attitudes to English as an international language
• Vocabulary knowledge and learning strategies
• Chinese-English learner's dictionaries
• The L2 motivational self system
• Oral narration and literacy development
• Communication strategies
• Pragmatics of face and student identities in the language classroom
• Code-switching in the language classroom