Research

Main Research Areas

• Applied English Linguistics (with particular reference to English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Second Language Writing)
• Corpus Linguistics (with particular reference to specialised corpora, L2 writing corpus research and Teaching Applications of Corpora)
• Discourse Analysis (with particular reference to meaning-making in written discourses; Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA))
• Cognitive Linguistics (with particular reference to Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Frame Theory)
• English as an International Language (with particular reference to World Englishes, (Business) English as a Lingua Franca (B)ELF)

Ongoing projects

Current project (post-doctoral thesis):

“Un/packing knowledge in ESP writing: An integrated corpus and qualitative data analysis of technicality in L2 student writing.”