Winter Research Seminar

December 15th 2011

Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)
Vocabulary size revisited: an analysis of work knowledge of undergraduate students and its relationship with academic achievement. Download - PDF 177.7 KB

Dr Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Lexical Concreteness and text difficulty

Michael Corrigan (CRELLA and ALTE Validation Unit/Cambridge ESOL)
Comparability of tests linked to the CEFR: the meaning of the link. Download - PDF 164.9 KB

Dr Lynda Taylor (CRELLA)
Exploring readers' mental representation of text. Download - PDF 792.8 KB

Joanna Bhatti (CRELLA)
The communication of emotions in England and Poland: compliments and refusals

Jamie Dunlea (STEP-Society for Testing English Proficiency) Japan
Analysing the vocabulary of a university entrance exam

Summer Research Seminar

• Research seminar 2011 - PDF 266.1 KB
• Abstracts in full - PDF 356.7 KB

July 7th 2011

Sathena Chan (CRELLA)
Investigating the cognitive validity of EAP reading-into-writing test tasks. A pilot study. Download presentation - PDF 476.2 KB

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Laurence Kinsella (CRELLA)
To what extent and in what ways does an intensive programme of targeted intentional vocabulary instruction impact on the development of reading proficiency?

Chihiro Inoue (Lancaster University)
Task Parallelness: Investigating the Difficulty of Two Spoken Narrative Tasks. Download - PDF 2.9 MB

Stephen Bax (CRELLA)
Using eye-tracking technology to research onscreen reading tests. View presentation

Hussain Sivardeen (CRELLA)
Mission impossible? Vocabulary acquisition in beginners engaged in extensive reading of unsimplified English material.

Professor Liz Hamp-Lyons (CRELLA and University of Nottingham)
The role of the construct in writing assessment project design. Download - PDF 224.5 KB

Discussion and roundup

For CRELLA research students only. There was an extended workshop session on the use of SPSS.