BAAL Researcher Development Workshop 2025

Applied linguists who have no or limited knowledge/experience about eye-tracking methodology, but are interested in learning about it as part of a one-day workshop with eye-tracking experts.

It is particularly suitable for doctoral students and early career researchers (ECRs), defined as “an individual who is within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training, or an individual who is within six years of their first academic appointment”, according to AHRC.

Date: Wednesday 5th of November 2025, 10-16.30 BST

Location: Coach House, Hillary Place, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

It is FREE.

Please note that this workshop is exclusive to BAAL Members. Places are limited and priority will be given to doctoral students and ECRs.

Please fill out this form to express your interest.

We are prioritising registration for doctoral students and ECRs until the 30th of June. We will confirm registrations for doctoral students and ECRs soon after this date, and if there are more available spaces, we will confirm registrations for BAAL members who do not fall into these categories, on a first come first served basis.

Andrea Révész (she/her) is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the IOE, University College London. Her main research interests lie at the interfaces of second language acquisition, instruction, and assessment, with particular emphases on the roles of task, input, and cognitive individual differences in second language acquisition. Supported by the Spencer foundation, one of her recent projects explores the potential of gaze-contingent eye-tracking in task-based reading instruction. She is the editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and serves as co-editor of the John Benjamins Task-based Language Teaching series. She is a winner of the 2017 TBLT Best Research Article Award and a recipient of the 2018 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.

Ana Pellicer-Sánchez (she/her) is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Her research centres around the teaching and learning of vocabulary in a second or foreign language, including both the learning of single words and formulaic sequences. Her recent research has made use of eye-tracking to explore the cognitive processes involved in vocabulary learning from a range of learning conditions. She is the co-author of Eye-tracking: A guide for Applied Linguistics Research (2018, CUP), and co-editor of Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective (2019, Routledge). She has recently co-edited a special issue on Eye-tracking in Vocabulary Research in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics journal (2024).

Chris Norton (he/him) is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Leeds and the Technical Research Assistant for Language at Leeds, an interdisciplinary network for language research and scholarship. In the latter role he has many years of experience of providing training and programming support for a wide range of research areas and methods. His own research has used eye tracking to investigate information structure processing during reading, and he currently provides eye tracking support to staff and postgraduates across the university. This help includes implementation and design of experiments with presentation software, training in how to record participants with the hardware, and facilitating analysis of the resulting data.

Gergely (Geri) Kajos (he/him), PhD Student, University of Leeds

For any queries/questions, please email ed19gk@leeds.ac.uk

Dr Thomas Hammond (he/him), Lecturer in Language Education/TESOL, University of Leeds

Xuechun Huang (she/her), PhD Student, University of Leeds