The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. An @ESRC funded project led by @Education_Leeds at @UniversityLeeds
Leeds, England
Joined July 2018
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I'm delighted to be speaking at this event, about findings from the @LeedsTransition project on the language of school, at @Education_Leeds, in collaboration with @Marcusjones900 at @HuntResearchSch. Looking forward to hearing experts on this really important issue.
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Michael Inglis and I have contributed a blog to this series, about the language of science education at the primary-secondary transition. We write about some findings from our @ESRC project @LeedsTransition, based at @Education_Leeds .
New BERA blog series, a special issue focusing on language and literacy, with an editorial by @Barbara134134 @UlsterEducation and six blogs by authors including @DrIanCollen @karen_forbes @Nic_Morea @alicedeignan @Dominic_Wyse @AliceJBradbury
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Such an important topic, really looking forward to this discussion.
Looking forward to welcoming @ian_cushing to Leeds for a f2f talk on 6th March on ‘How the “word gap” came to be normalised in England’s schools’. Discussant comments from @UniLeedsStaff @ceciletje @alicedeignan and @DrPJClarke Please join us — all welcome!
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Is there a "slump" in literacy and vocabulary between Year 6 and 7? @ricketts_lara and colleagues decided to investigate, and here's what they found... tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
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Speaking at my first in-person conference since March 2020 tomorrow: #rED21 session 4, with @Marcusjones900 on our findings about science vocabulary at KS2 and KS3
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Alice Deignan @alicedeignan @LeedsTransition @Education_Leeds @CLER_Leeds discusses the the range of academic #language encountered by students in YR 7/8 in in comparison with the language of YR 5/6 at primary #linguistics #primarytransition #education buff.ly/3nzvdsS
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I'm looking forward to this! I'll be talking about our project in general and then the challenges presented by apparently straightforward vocabulary in Key Stage 3, developing from work by myself and @lovermob.
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It was great to present some findings about the lexical / grammatical complexity of teacher talk as part of the @LeedsTransition yesterday with @alicedeignan for @EnglishAston’s ‘Through the Language Lens’ seminar series. Thanks to all who attended. Recording available soon! – at Birmingham, England
@lovermob & @alicedeignan exploring reasons for challenges faced by pupils during transition from primary to secondary from linguistic perspective
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Two papers accepted for @ICAME41: one for the @leedstransition project and the other one co-authored with my colleague @YenDang61914935! #ICAME41
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We have a paper for the @LeedsTransition project accepted for @icame41 in Heidelberg! “Teacher talk and the school transition”, exploring our spoken corpus, with colleagues @alicedeignan, @duygucandarli and Gary Chambers – at Leeds, England
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Paper accepted for @CorporaJournal with @lovermob, the first from the @LeedsTransition project. "Using corpus methods to identify subject specific uses of polysemous words in English secondary school science materials". Pre-print: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1541…
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Just one week until the deadline for our Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics post @UniversityLeeds, working on the @LeedsTransition project to explore the differences in academic language between primary and secondary school.
JOB: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the @LeedsTransition project.
Closing date: Wednesday 4th December.
Please RT to spread the word!
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To warm us up, the first question is, “How do you get started when you need to write a paper?” Remember to use the tags #AcWriMo #CamCov and get talking in the thread below :D @CUPAcademic
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JOB: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the @LeedsTransition project.
Closing date: Wednesday 4th December.
Please RT to spread the word!
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.asp…
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'Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics' position available in the School of Education at Leeds University, to work on a project affiliated with us in Lancaster: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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About to head over to Lancaster for tomorrow’s @corpusbaalsig symposium on corpora, discourse and society. Will be presenting a study from the @LeedsTransition project with @alicedeignan and @duygucandarli. Looking forward to a great day in my academic homeland! 😃 – at Leeds, England
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📢📢MORE AWESOME SPEAKER NEWS📢📢 We have a fab collabs between @Marcusjones900 literacy lead at @HuntResearchSch, and Professor @alicedeignan head of the School of Education at the @UniversityLeeds
COME COME 👏👏👏 #rEDBrum
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This week on #CorpusMOOC: How to use corpora to construct textbooks and dictionaries?
Join us and share your experience: futurelearn.com/courses/corp…
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The Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies International Conference will be held in @MICLimerick on 25 – 26 June 2020, marking 20 years of the IVACS research centre and network. Keep an eye on ivacs.mic.ul.ie next week for the #IVACS2020 CfP! @MICLinguistics @Anne0Keeffe
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"We realised that, while the pastoral care may be strong, the academic transition was often close to non-existent"
Headteacher Mari Palmer (also Director @NYCResearchSch) explores the best way to tackle mathematics at the primary/secondary transition: eef.li/RvgfbD
