Research Lines

The line of research of the former SGR research group CIEN analyses sociolinguistic, sociocultural, discursive, and ideological aspects of learning and using English in different geographical, institutional, and social contexts from a multilingual perspective, using a predominantly ethnographic approach. The group includes researchers who investigate how the English language (in combination with other languages) articulates family and institutional language policies, processes of educational internationalisation, (pre)adolescent and professional mobilities, and language and education policies for refugees.

The line of research of the former SGR research group EFLIC explores the process of acquiring and learning-teaching English as a foreign language in instructional settings from a variety of applied and formal perspectives. It includes research on Instructed Second Language Acquisition, foreign language learning, explicit and implicit L2 teaching, learning and knowledge, and CLIL/EMI in child, adolescent, and adult learners at the primary, secondary, and tertiary education stages. The main objectives of this line of research are to measure the acquisition and learning of English in different instructional settings, and to explore the methodological, affective, and contextual variables that affect its development.

The line of research of the former SGR research group GRIAL focuses on the annotation and creation of corpora with morphological, syntactic, semantic, and discursive linguistic knowledge. The researchers who make up this line of research have also worked on the creation of linguistic resources for use in natural language processing applications based on linguistic theories. Thus, work has been done from a construction grammar perspective to describe the interface between syntax and semantics, from a lexicogrammar perspective to describe the lexicons, and from a critical discourse analysis perspective to describe the discursive level