Newcastle University

Current Projects

Across our broad research themes, staff work on a wide range of languages, adopt diverse methodologies and theoretical perspectives. For staff working on speech/language disorders and second language learning, there is also a strong focus on developing the evidence base underpinning practice.

Our current projects include:

• A Linguistic Time-Capsule for the Google Generation: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
  Project Leader(s): Professor Karen Corrigan
• Assessment of Children from a Bi-or Multilingual Context at Risk for Language Impairment
  Project Leader(s): Ghada Khattab and Carolyn Letts
• Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications
  Project Leader(s): Kimary Shahin (Lead-PI, Qatar University), Ghada Khattab (Co-PI, Newcastle University)
• Centre for Excellence in Inter-Professional Education (CEIPE)
  Project Leader(s): Dr Steve Walsh
• Language Learning in the Wild
  Project Leader(s): Professor Paul Seedhouse (ECLS) and Professor Patrick Olivier (Computing Science)
• Learning French from Ages 5, 7 and 11: An Investigation into Starting Ages, Rates and Routes of Learning Amongst Early Foreign Language Learners.
  Project Leader(s): Professor Florence Myles (Newcastle University) and Professor Rosamond Mitchell (University of Southampton)
• Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (LESLLA)
  Project Leader(s): Martha Young-Scholten (SELs) and Yvonne Ritchie (Newcastle Workers Education Association)
• Paradigms of Diversity and Social Cohesion: Education Planning, Curriculum Design, and Language Vitality Among Latin American Indigenous Peoples
  Project Leader(s): Rosaleen Howard
• Psychological Significance of Production Templates in Phonological and Lexical Advance: A Cross-Linguistic Study.
  Project Leader(s): Marilyn Vihman, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Rory DePaolis, Ghada Khattab and Sophie Wauquier
• Reflexive Marking in the History of French
  Project Leader(s): Richard Waltereit
• Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders
  Project Leader(s): Professor Anders Holmberg
• The New Reynell Development Language Scales
  Project Leader(s): Carolyn Letts
• The Syntax of Yes and No
  Project Leader(s): Anders Holmberg
• Topic Development in the IELTS Speaking Test
  Project Leader(s): Paul Seedhouse
• Year Abroad Effects on Language Proficiency for English University Students Learning Chinese (L2 Chinese)
  Project Leader(s): Clare Wright