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Ting Zeng was awarded a聽Language Learning Doctoral Dissertation Grant by the international journal Language Learning. Ting鈥檚 study investigates how various implementations of a task-based writing course influence second language learners' cognitive writing processes and their writing outcomes. Ting specifically compares the impact of inductive versus deductive approaches to genre instruction integrated into a task-based writing course.

Xin Rong received聽a grant聽from the International Research Foundation for English Language Education, and was awarded聽the Russell N. Campbell Award for聽the聽top-ranked proposal in the 2023 competition. Xin鈥檚 doctoral work explores the cognitive writing processes in which second language learners engage when working collaboratively on computer-mediated writing tasks and how these processes might influence the quality of the texts they produce, as compared to when they write individually.

Shishi Zhang won the聽2023 British Council Assessment Research Award, and the聽2023 Asian Association for Language Assessment聽Best Student Paper Award.聽Shishi's thesis centres on designing and trialling a second language pragmatic competence assessment tool for intercultural communication. This research deliverable is designed to both enhance UK pre-sessional students鈥� spoken communication skills, and to help them reflect on and calibrate meanings in interaction.

The student's聽principle supervisors聽Professor聽Andrea R茅v茅sz and Dr Talia Isaacs聽said: "We are very pleased that our doctoral students have been awarded these prestigious awards. It's a well-deserved recognition of their cutting-edge contributions to the field of second language learning and assessment.鈥�

Links

• Graduate research at the IOE
• Centre for Applied Linguistics
• Department of Culture, Communication and Media