Main contact person 

Dr Christopher J Hall

Associate Professor and Reader in Applied Linguistics

Lead, LIdIA Research Unit

c.hall@yorksj.ac.uk 

01904 876876

Research areas available for 2014 entry 

  • Atypical development of language and cognition (Dr Leesa Clarke)
  • Classroom language (Dr Helen Sauntson, Dr Rachel Wicaksono)
  • Communication and new technologies (Dr Beverly Geesin) 
  • Deaf studies (Dr Dai O'Brien)
  • Language, gender and sexuality, especially in schools (Dr Helen Sauntson) 
  • Language variation and change, especially in phonetics (Dr Kate Whisker-Taylor) 
  • Motivation in language learning (Dr Liviana Ferrari) 
  • Non-native Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (Dr Christopher Hall, Dr Rachel Wicaksono)
  • Sociolinguistics and interaction (Dr Andrew Merrison) 
  • Teacher / learner conceptions of English, especially grammar (Dr Christopher Hall)