Recent publications

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2026

Written (Articles, books, chapters etc.)

Adami, E. 2026. Multimodal time–space-interaction analysis of content creators’ translocal trajectories. Discourse, Context andamp; Media. 70. Link.

Bradford, T. 2026. Poem/Correspondence (de L’Aubespine, Sand, de Musset), Translated by Terry Bradford. Typo. 13 (Black Scat Books, Jan. 2026), pp.55–57. Link.

Brunetto, V. 2026. Children’s interpretation of epithets: On coreference and self-ascription. Language Acquisition. 33(3), pp.470–490. Link.

Dang, T.N.Y., Read, J., Cao, T.P.D., Nguyen, T.M.H. and Nguyen, H.T.M. 2026. Second language knowledge of academic collocations and its relationship with knowledge of academic words and general high-frequency words. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Link.

De Cat, C., Tuller, L., Gusnanto, A., Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L. and Unsworth, S. 2026. Using Q-BEx to Identify Risk for Language Impairment in Bilingual Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Link (OSF preprint, accepted version).

Del Pozo García, A. 2026. ‘Is this the same subject?’ Students’ perceptions of language use in Modern Languages degrees. Language, Culture and Curriculum, pp.1–15. Link.

Ding, A. and Walkova, M. 2026 (forthcoming). Language in book reviews. In: Nesi, H. and Milinin, P. eds. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 3rd ed. Elsevier. Link.

Early Years Screen Time Advisory Group (inc. Davies, C.). 2026. Screen use by children aged under 5: Independent report. Department for Education; Department of Health and Social Care. Link.

Gregoriou, C. 2026. Sharp wit, northern grit and verbal sparring in Happy Valley. In: Neary, C., Statham, S. and Stockwell, P. eds. Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson. John Benjamins, pp.216–55. Link.

Gregoriou, C., Lynes, A. and Larke-Walsh-G. 2026. On the Afterlives of Incarceration: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Narrative Construction at Shrewsbury Prison Museum, UK. Crime, Media Culture., pp.1–23. Link.

Henrickson, M., Atwell, E., Stell, J., Westgarth, M., Roy, D. and Abbas, N. 2026. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Natural Language Art Provenance Searches in the Getty Provenance Index. Academia AI and Applications. 2(1). Link.

Hermoso-Gómez, B. and Martinho, S. 2026. Wonder Books in Wonder Languages: promoting multilingualism in the Early Years. In: Cortina Pérez, B., Andúgar, A. and Martínez León, N. eds. Early multilingual education: Research pathways from policy to practice.. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.

Huang, X. 2026. Piloting a Doctoral Project on Vocabulary Learning: Procedure and Reflection. Hillary Place Papers. 9(2), pp.20–23. Link.

Knight, S., Zheng, Y., Maher, G., McGarrigle, R. and Mattys, S. 2026. A data-limit account of release from masking during speech-on-speech listening. Cognitive Science. 50, p.e70166. Link.

Lam, C., Lau, C.M. and Lee, J. L. 2026. Chinese Language Corpora. Reference Collection in Social Sciences. Link.

Liu, Y., Hu, G. 2026. Three-minute thesis presentations. In: Hyland, K. and Thompson, P. eds. The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes. 2nd ed. Routledge, pp.366–379. Link.

Liu, Y., Tang, R. and Lim, F.V. 2026. Examining the single slide in Three Minute Thesis presentations: Image types and slide-speech relations. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. Advance online publication. Link.

Lu, C. and Dang, T.N.Y. 2026. Effect of L2 exposure, length of study, and L2 proficiency on EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of form-meaning connection and collocations of high-frequency words. Language Teaching Research. 30(3). Link.

Mattys, S., O’Leary, R., McGarrigle, R. and Wingfield, A. 2026. Reconceptualizing cognitive listening. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Link.

Morris, M.J., Anonby, E. and Watson, J.C.E. eds. 2026. Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia Volume 2: Comparative Lexicon of Fish and Other Marine Species. Link.

Nguyen, N.H., Huang, X. and Dang, T.N.Y. 2026. Lexical profile of ChatGPT-generated reading materials targetting EFL learners across the CEFR levels. International Journal of TESOL Studies. 8(3), pp.113–133. Link.

Pansaers, C. and Nicanor, B. 2026. Collected Writings, Translated and with an Introduction by Terry Bradford. Cambridge, Mass.: Wakefield Press. Link.

Pischedda, P. 2026. Graphic Noise. The Linguist. 61(1). Link.

Seijo Richart, M. 2026 (forthcoming). The Galician Correspondencia Film: A Documentary Subgenre and an Early Form of Communicative Travel. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe.

Sharoff, S., Baker, J., Hunt, D.F. and Simpson, A. 2026. Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health records. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026, Rabat, Morocco), pp.115–126, Association for Computational Linguistics. Link.

Shepherd, A. 2026. Using poetry in the ESOL classroom. ESOL Matters, April. Link.

Spowage, K. 2026. Anything, Anytime, Anywhere: Semiotic Landscapes, Labour, and Ideology in The Last of Us. Open Libraries Humanities Journal. 12(1). Link.

Stollhans, S. 2026. Gender-neutral pronouns in French exams: how language classrooms respond to linguistic change. The Conversation. Link.

Walkova, M. 2026. Being a Slovak teacher of English in Britain: On language, labelling and politeness. In: Rydzik, A. and Gebbels, M. eds. Central and Eastern European women academics in the UK: Making Britain Home.. Routledge, pp.131–136.

Walkova, M. 2026. Conducting research and scholarship: A review of four books from the EAP practitioner perspective. International Journal of English for Academic Purposes: Research and Practice. 6(1), pp.135–141. Link.

Wright, C. 2026. Where can technology take Chinese language learning and teaching in 21st century? Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (in press). Link.

Wright, C. and Muradás-Taylor, B. 2026. Researching second language acquisition: Scope and methodologies. In: J. Herschensohn andamp; M. Young-Scholten. eds. Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Second Edition (in press).

Wright, C. and Tavakoli, P. 2026. Context matters in fluency assessment. In: Wright, C., Steinlen, A., Peltonen, P. and Piske, T. eds. Context Matters in SLA. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Wright, C., Yang, C., Peng, Y. and Peltonen, P. 2026. (forthcoming). Effects of a Virtual Year Abroad on L2 Chinese conversational proficiency: Impact on temporal fluency, utterance sophistication, and discourse fluency. In: Front-Moralez, A. and Sanz, C. eds. Education Abroad: Language, Learners and Communities. Georgetown University Press.

Zhao, H. and Dang, T.N.Y. 2026. Transforming written assessment design to embrace AI: What needs to be changed to encourage higher-order critical thinking. Education and Information Technologies. pp.1–23. Link.

Spoken (Talks, workshops, presentations etc.)

Adami, E. 2026. Challenges in Digital Recontextualization of Expert Knowledge: What Comes Next? (Closing round table). INTERGEDI, 18–20 March, Universitat de Zaragoza, Spain.

Adami, E. 2026. The power of showing: Signs of knowledge in social media videos. (Opening plenary keynote). INTERGEDI, 18–20 March, Universitat de Zaragoza, Spain.

De Cat, C. 2026. Determinants of conversational implicatures in bilingual children. (Invited presentation as the 2026 Jean Haritschelhar Chair). Bordeaux (France).

De Cat, C. 2026. Le bilinguisme chez les enfants dans l'enseignement monolingue: une multitude de perspectives. (Invited presentation as the 2026 Jean Haritschelhar Chair). Bayonne (France, Basque Country).

De Cat, C. 2026. Using Q-BEx as first-level triage for language impairment. (Invited keynote). BiSLI conference. Zagreb (Croatia).

Norton, C. and Plug, L. 2026. Temporal stability of spontaneous production rates. Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, (University of Warwick, April 2026).

Plug, L. 2026. Intra-speaker variation in SSBE monophthong formant frequencies. Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (University of Warwick, April 2026).

Stollhans, S. 2026. Cultural and linguistic diversity in language teaching and learning: perceptions, policy and practice. (Talk) Applied Linguistics Research Seminar, Department of Education. University of Oxford. 9 June. Link.

Stollhans, S. 2026. Erasmus+ and Horizon: resetting the UK-European relationship, hosted by Universities UK & EUA. (Panellist). PIE Live Europe 2026, 24 March. Link.

Stollhans, S. 2026. What do we mean by ‘knowledge about language’ and why does it matter in education? (Talk) Languages Talks. University of the Arts London. 8 May. Link.

Stollhans, S. 2026. Why language teaching and assessment needs linguistics. (Online workshop). AQA, Curriculum Connect Session. Link.

Wright, C. 2026. How and why insights from different theoretical paradigms in linguistics enriches language pedagogy. Generative Association of Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), Cambridge (2026).

2025

Written (Articles, books, chapters etc.)

Bradford, T. 2025. ON TRAP art tickly air, A Pseudotranslation of Clément Pansaers by Terry Bradford. Typo. 12 (Black Scat Books, Oct. 2025), pp.37–40. Link.

Bradford, T. 2025. On Jazz Writing and Translating Boris Vian: Towards a Jazz Translation Strategy? Journal of Romance Studies (Nov. 2025), 25(4), pp.587–610. Link.

Bradford, T. 2025. Pseudotranslating Renée Vivien: a problematic and problematising practice. CePra Journal. 4(1). Link.

Bradford, T. 2025. Two Anthems (Pseudotranslations). Typo 10 (Black Scat Books, Apr. 2025), pp.70–71. Link.

Dang, T.N.Y. and Webb, S. 2025. Review of recent scholarship: Applications of word lists in second language learning and teaching. Language Teaching. Link.

Dang, T.N.Y., Macis, M. and Aguilera-Munizaga, M. 2025. Spanish-English cognates and false cognates in academic spoken vocabulary: Lexical coverage, orthographic and phonological transparency, and frequency. Applied Linguistics. Link.

Dang, T.N.Y., Zhao, H. and Finlayson, N. 2025. Tracking the development in second language writers’ use of academic vocabulary in discipline-specific assignments. Journal of Second Language Writing. 69 Link.

Davies, C. and Ingram, H. 2025. Sceptics and champions: Participant insights on the use of partial randomisation to allocate research culture funding. Research Evaluation. 34, rvaf006. Link.

Davies, C. and La Valle, I. 2025. Little lives, big changes: How COVID-19 shaped early years services and children’s development from birth to five years (Expert Report, INQ000587957). UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry. Link.

Davies, C. et al. 2025. Funders’ self-analysis is building better research culture. Research Professional News. Link.

Davies, C., Gadd, E., Thrift, N., Thompson, A., Muscatelli, A., Padgett, M. and Cater, J. 2025. Where now for the REF? Times Higher Education. Times Higher Education. September 26. Link.

De Cat, C., Gusnanto, A., Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L. and Unsworth, S. 2025. How detailed do measures of bilingual language experience need to be? A cost-benefit analysis using the Q-BEx questionnaire. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (First View). Link

Eberharter, J. and Stollhans, S. 2025. Cultural and linguistic diversity in German language teaching and learning. German as a Foreign Language. 2025(1). Link.

Henrickson, M. 2025. Named Experts in Fine Art Auction Text from the Getty Provenance Index German Sales (1900–1945). Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p.81. Link.

Leslie, A. and Wright, C. 2025. Stepping Up, Standing Out: A case study on engaging with international student voices through co-creation. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal. 7(1), pp.61–68. Link.

Mariën, M. 2025. Autoportrait, Translated and with an Introduction by Terry Bradford. Typo. 11 (Black Scat Books, Jun. 2025), pp.27–29. Link.

Moss, B., Henry, L., Davies, C., Del Rosario, C., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hendry, A., Hill, E., McGillion, M., Prior, E., Reimers, S., Shapiro, L., Van Blankenstein, E. and Botting, N. 2025. ‘I just had to park up at the hospital and leave her’: A retrospective interview study of pregnancy, birth and parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Journal of Family and Child Health. 2(1), pp.20–29. Link.

Read, J. and Dang, T.N.Y. 2025. Measuring depth of academic vocabulary knowledge. Language Teaching Research. 29(5), pp.1967–1993. Link.

Rodina, Y., Tomić, A. and De Cat, C. 2025. Direct objects in child heritage speakers of Bosnian and Serbian in Norway: Morphosyntax, pragmatics, and language experience. International Journal of Bilingualism. 13670069251386267. Link.

Stafford, J.L. 2025. Janky or non-fluent? A small-scale practitioner survey on Chinese-English videogame localisation approaches. Digital Translation. 11(2), pp.140–161. Link.

Stafford, J.L. 2025. Localization playability: Users’ perception in the English translation of the Chinese game “Depersonalization”. L10N Journal. 2(4), pp.29–54. Link.

Stollhans, S. 2025. UK to re-join Erasmus+ — here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme. The Conversation. Link.

The Wellcome Trust (Davies, C.). 2025. Wellcome’s vision for improving research culture: Perceptions and impacts in research organisations [version 1; not peer reviewed]. Wellcome Open Res. 10(676). Link.

Unsworth, S., Gusnanto, A., Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L. and De Cat, C. 2025. Unpacking the Richness of Language Experience as a Predictor of Bilingual Children’s Language Proficiency. Journal of Child Language. pp.1–33. Link.

Wang, J., Wright, C., An, N. and Wang, S. 2025. Is the Oral Proficiency Interview effective? A comparative study of the ACTFL OPI and non-OPI assessments. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. 6(2), pp.133–160. Link.

Wright, C. 2025. Researching fluency in second language French. In: Howard, M. ed. Methods and Approaches in French Second Language Acquisition Research. Benjamins. Link.

Spoken (Talks, workshops, presentations etc.)

Adam, P., Barslund Fosse, H., Davies, C., Ioppolo, B., Jorstad, A., van Drooge, L., Wooding, S. 2025 Metascience on the inside: doing research on research in your own organisation. Metascience 2025, London. 1 July 2025. Link.

Adami, E. 2025. A Multimodal Time-Space-Interaction Analysis of short-video content creation on social media. 12-ICOM, 29-31 October 2025, Groningen, Netherlands.

Adami, E. 2025. Multimodal PEERS: Approaches for Multimodal Participatory, Engaged, Engaging and self-Reflective Studies. (Convenor of workshop).12-ICOM, 29-31 October 2025, Groningen, Netherlands.

Davies, C. 2025. COVID-19 effects on young children’s language development: Who was affected and who was protected? (Invited keynote). Child Language Symposium, University of Reading, 8 September 2025. Link.

Davies, C. 2025. Research Culture: What Works. Invited keynote. International Research Culture Conference, University of Warwick, 17 September 2025. Link.

De Cat, C. 2025. Reflections on syntactic complexity, through the lens of adolescent language. (Invited keynote). Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference. Tours (France).

Richards, L., Macdougall, J., Deroey, K. and Walkova, M. 2025. Challenges in materials design [Podcast]. All Things EAP, Baleap. Link.

Seijo Richart, M. 2025. The Challenge of Teaching Galician Cinema: a Multi-perspective Approach. Questioning Normativity: Decolonising Language, Knowledge and Practice Symposium on Decoloniality in English for Academic Purposes and Language Education, December 2025, University of Leeds.

Walkova, M. and Merabet, R. 2025. With Decolonisation: common assumptions, uncommon responses. [Conference presentation]. Questioning normativity: Decoloniality in EAP and language education, University of Leeds, 12 December."

Wright, C. 2025. A novel framework for studying fluency in dialogic interaction. European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 34, Tromso.

Wright, C. 2025. Contextualising AI in Higher Education: Nuanced understandings of competence, ethics and equity. International Conference on Shifting Powers in Language Learning and Linguistics with Generative AI, Open University, Milton Keynes (2025).

Wright, C. 2025. Innovation in L2 Chinese Research. Pacific Second Language Research Forum, May 30–Jun 1 2025, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Wright, C. 2025. Virtually Here and There: Impact of online interaction on variability in linguistic proficiency during residence abroad. European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 35.