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Research Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories
- School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies in Ottawa
- Institute for English Language Education at the University. Lancaster, England
- English Language Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic
- National Centre for English Language, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique, France; contact Sylvie Plane, Sylvie.plane at wanadoo.fr
- Research in writing as meaning-making; writing process, revisions; cognitive development and writing; writing in the disciplines.
- Institutionen for Nordiska Sprak, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Etrangeres et Maternelles, Universite Stendhal-Grenoble, France. Contact Françoise Boch, Francoise.Boch at u-grenoble3.fr
- Research in writing in higher education; reading in higher education; note-taking as a form of writing; paraphrase and citation; literacy.
- THEODILE (Laboratoire “Théorie-didactique de la Lecture-L’écriture”) at Université de Lille III.; Contact Yves Reuter, yreuter at wanadoo.fr
- Research in writing across the disciplines; genre variations across the disciplines (disciplinary forms of genres like description or narration); theoretical constructs of disciplinarity k-16 and graduate; analysis of academic writing; multi-disciplinary approaches to studying text and teaching writing.
- Language in Higher Education Research Group; Contact Carys Jones at carys.jones at kcl.ac.uk
- LIHERG is an inter-university, project-related steering group, based at King’s College London in the UK. Its members are mainly researchers, whose experiences as practitioners have brought them together to address what they perceive as an urgent need to examine language use in higher education. They believe that language plays a dominant role in the academic progress of students within the tertiary system. This is borne out by the problems encountered by native and non-native English speakers in the course of their studies, particularly concerning academic literacy. LIHERG has a commitment to raising awareness to the centrality of language use across disciplines in higher education; promoting a view of the university as an international academic arena; encouraging research into language-related issues within higher education by engaging the involvement of key participants such as tutors, students, academic staff and administrators; encouraging young and new researchers interested in the field; drawing on a variety of experiences, within the UK and outside, which could contribute to a deeper understanding of the issues and signal ways forward.
- Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education, University of London; contact Mary Scott, m.scott at ioe.ac.uk. Co-ordinator :Interuniversity Academic Literacies Research Group which meets once a termat the Institute of Education
- Research in academic literacies; discourse analysis of academic/disciplinary writing; exclusion and academic writing; voice and cultural backgrounds; rethinking assessment
- Centre de Méthodologie Universitaire et de Didactique du Français; contact Marie-Christine Pollet, mcpollet at ulb.ac.be
- Research in teaching and theory of university discourses; heteroglossia and student source use; introducing university students to writing.
- Queen Mary University of London Writing in the Disciplines with a link to the “Thinking Writing” site.
- (this group also has professional writers in residence as tutors and works with faculty on teaching writing in their courses: WiD model)
- Applied Language and Literacies Research Unit, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK: Host of Writing Development in Higher Education
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