# Applied Linguistics and Language in Education
**Source**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/groups/applied-linguistics-language-in-education
**Parent**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/engage-and-innovate/consultancy
Group Leader(s):
[Professor Jane Spiro](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jane-spiro), [Dr Andrie Yiakoumetti](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/andrie-yiakoumetti)
Contact:
[jspiro@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:jspiro@brookes.ac.uk)
[+44 (0)1865 488613](tel:+44 (0)1865 488613)
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## About us
The members of the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLIE) research group are all engaged in researching, writing, teaching and developing the study of language in all its manifestations, as science and as personal development, as text and as spoken word, within and beyond educational settings.
Our work covers the whole spectrum of these approaches: from the science of phoneme articulation and language processing, to the politics and pedagogy of first languages in schools. We all share a common interest in the integral role of language in human development and social interaction. Our work also includes engagement with language across the curriculum in schools, and the development of academic language literacies in Higher Education. Our research spans a number of languages beyond English, including Greek Cypriot dialects, German, Bengali, Korean, Mandarin and Japanese, and international contexts including India, Hawaii, Japan, Jersey and Switzerland.
### Part of
- [School of Education, Humanities and Languages](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ehl "School of Education, Humanities and Languages")
### Related courses
- [Communication, Media and Culture (BA (Hons))](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/communication-media-and-culture)
- [Doctor of Education (EdD)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/doctor-of-education)
## Leadership
### Professor Jane Spiro
- [jspiro@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:jspiro@brookes.ac.uk)
Professor Emerita in Education
[View profile for Jane Spiro](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jane-spiro)
### Dr Andrie Yiakoumetti
- [ayiakoumetti@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:ayiakoumetti@brookes.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer in English Language and TESOL
[View profile for Andrie Yiakoumetti](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/andrie-yiakoumetti)
## Membership
Staff members
- Staff
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### Staff
| Name | Role | Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Professor Roger Dalrymple](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/roger-dalrymple) | Visiting Professor of Education, School of Education | [rdalrymple@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:rdalrymple@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Dr Hanako Fujino](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/hanako-fujino) | Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language and Linguistics | [hfujino@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:hfujino@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Dr Jo Skelton](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jo-skelton) | Associate Professor of Mathematics Education | [jskelton@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:jskelton@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor Jane Spiro](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/jane-spiro) | Professor Emerita in Education | [jspiro@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:jspiro@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Dr Andrie Yiakoumetti](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/andrie-yiakoumetti) | Senior Lecturer in English Language and TESOL | [ayiakoumetti@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:ayiakoumetti@brookes.ac.uk) |
## Projects
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### Active projects
| Project title and description | Investigator(s) | Funder(s) | Dates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Journey of words: from manuscript to mind** In this project, we investigate the stress differences of Romance loans in English, German and Dutch from both historical (i.e. when the words were borrowed) and theoretical (i.e. how did the stress change) perspectives, and their effects on second-language processing and consequences for language teaching. We use psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods to investigate whether loans with different stress patterns in English, German and Dutch (e.g. universitéit (D), univérsity (E), Universitä́t (G)) cause L2 learners of English difficulties in processing. These findings will then be used to create a digital teaching tool for English language students and teachers which will be designed in close collaboration with English language teachers and tested in classrooms to maximise its usefulness. | [Professor Aditi Lahiri](https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/aditi-lahiri) | [AHRC](https://ahrc.ukri.org/ "Arts and Humanities Research Council") | From: October 2019 Until: September 2022 |
## Past and current consultancy roles
Eowyn Crisfield and Jo Skelton: \
- The Multilingual Learner: From theory to practice (International School of Geneva)
Eowyn Crisfield:
- States of Jersey EAL Review and Language Policy Development
- Aga Khan Academies: Developing and Sustaining Local Languages in International Education
- Current consultancy roles with Dulwich Colleges International, International School of Geneva, International School of Delft; Institut le Rosey
Sandra Kotzor:
- Consultant for *Creative Multilingualism* (AHRC, University of Oxford; 2016-2020; PI: K. Kohl)
- [Creative Multilingualism](https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/), for example work on the [LinguaMania podcast](https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/linguamania-episode-1/)
- Consultant for *The ‘morphome’: a psycholinguistic investigation* (John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2021-2022; PIs M. Maiden & C. Cappellaro)
Jane Spiro:
- *Creative Poetry Writing* (Oxford University Press 2004)
- *Storybuilding* (Oxford University Press 2007)
- *Changing Methodologies in TESOL* (Edinburgh University Press 2013)
- *Linguistic and Cultural Innovations in Schools: the languages challenge* (Palgrave Macmillan) 2018 with Eowyn Crisfield)
- *Reflective Writing* (2020 Palgrave Macmillan with Kate Williams and Mary Wooliams)
- *Crossing borders in university learning and teaching: navigating hidden cultures* (2021 Routledge)
- Doctoral external examining for Queen’s University Belfast, Dublin City University, Exeter, Reading, Warwick, Leeds Met, Coventry, University College London Institute of Education, York St John, Monash Australia
## Community engagement projects
- NALDIC (EAL Subject Association) Executive Committee member, SIG coordinator
- Poetry walks with Arts4Dementia connected to the Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy Exhibition, Weston Library (Jane Spiro 2021)
- Think Human Exhibitions with Oxford local writers: 2018 - *Remembered Pasts* (Jane Spiro)
- Think Human Exhibition: images and voices of refugee stories 2019: *Testimony of Flight* (Jane Spiro)
- 09/2017 Participation in the [Curiosity Carnival](https://www.ox.ac.uk/curiosity-carnival/about), University of Oxford (Sandra Kotzor)
- 09/2018 Showcasing research at the [Durga Puja Reading](https://www.durgapujareading.com/) (Sandra Kotzor)
- 2021 Advisor for Waynflete project at Magdalen College School (Sandra Kotzor)
## Events
ALLIE members host the following regular events:
- Monthly peer review circles for the exchange and discussion of work in progress
- Monthly writing days for sharing writing goals and outcomes with others
- Participation in weekly research seminars contributing a language perspective to debates and panel discussions
ALLIE members have conceived and facilitated the following conferences:
- English as an Additional Language (2016, 2017)
- Materials Writing (2018)
- Writing in other words (2021)
## Recent publications
### 2021
Crisfield, E. (2021) *Bilingual Families: A practical language planning guide.* Multilingual Matters.
Crisfield, E., Holland, A., & Gordon, I. (2021). Translanguaging as a pathway to ethical bilingual education: An exploratory case study from Kenya. In B. Paulsrud, Z. Tian, & J. Toth (Eds.), *English-Medium Instruction and Translanguagin*g (pp. 62-76). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Spiro, J. (in press for 2021) *Why do I write this way? Tracking the stylistic leap from professional to academic writing* in Zyngier, S. and Watson, G, (eds) 21st Century Pedagogic Stylistics Palgrave Macmillan: Chapter 14
Spiro, J. (in press for 2021) Developing writing mastery in Buchanan, H, and Norton, J, (eds) *Routledge Handbook of Materials Development*, Routledge (Chapter 20)
Spiro, J. (in press for 2021) *Crossing borders in university learning and teaching: navigating hidden cultures.* Routledge.
Kotzor, S. (in press for 2021) *Antonyms in Mind and Brain: evidence from German and English*. Routledge Focus.
Wynne, H., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Schuster, S., & A. Lahiri. (in press for 2021) Morphology Attaches, Phonology Binds, *Language*.
Kim, Y.,Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (in press for 2021). Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean. *Lingua*, 103128.
Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H. & Lahiri, A. (2021). Asymmetric influence of vocalic context on Mandarin sibilants: Evidence from ERP studies. *Frontiers in Human Neuroscience*, 15, 617318
Kotzor, S., Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2021). Still native?: morphological processing in second-language immersed speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1-28. [https://doi.org/10.1177/136700](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13670069211019480)
### 2020
Kotzor, S., Schuster, S., Wynne, H. & Lahiri, A. (2020) Form or structure? Morphological processing in second-language English speakers: evidence from long-lag lexical decision. In: Sanchez-Stockhammer, C., F. Günther & H.-J. Schmid (eds), *Language in Mind and Brain*. Proceedings of the workshop held at LMU Munich on December 10–11, 2018. Munich: Open Access LMU. [https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de](https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/)
Williams, K., Wooliams, M, and Spiro, J. (2020) (2nd edition) *Reflective Writing* Palgrave Macmillan
Brown, C., Spiro,J. and Quinton, S. (2020) The role of research ethics: friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study in *British Educational Research Journal* (BERJ) Vol. 46 (4) pp. 747-769
Wynne, H., Zhou, B., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2020). The effect of phonological and morphological overlap on the processing of Bengali words. *Journal of South Asian Linguistics* 11, 25-51.
Kotzor, S., Zhou, B. & Lahiri, A. (2020). (A)symmetry in vowel features in verbs and pseudoverbs: ERP evidence. *Neuropsychologia* 143, 107474.
### 2018
Spiro, J. and Crisfield, E. (2018) Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: the languages challenge Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319643816>
Crisfield, E. (2018). Challenging the Monolingual Habitus of International School Classrooms. *International Schools Journal*, XXXVII(2), 77-84.
Crisfield, E. (2018b). Dynamic Multilingualism in International Schools. In J. Spiro, & E. Crisfield, *Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: The Languages Challenge* (pp. 93-123). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Crisfield, E. (2018c). Moving from 'English-only' to Multilingual Empowerment. In J. Spiro, & E. Crisfield, *Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: The Languages Challenge* (pp. 159-184). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Crisfield, E. (2018d). To Square the Particular with the Global. In J. Spiro, & E. Crisfield, *Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: The Languages Challenge* (pp. 57-92). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
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