Linguistic Challenges of the Transition

The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. An @ESRC funded project led by @Education_Leeds at @UniversityLeeds

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

I'm delighted to be speaking at this event, about findings from the @LeedsTransition project on the language of school, at @Education_Leeds, in collaboration with @Marcusjones900 at @HuntResearchSch. Looking forward to hearing experts on this really important issue.

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

Michael Inglis and I have contributed a blog to this series, about the language of science education at the primary-secondary transition. We write about some findings from our @ESRC project @LeedsTransition, based at @Education_Leeds .

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

Such an important topic, really looking forward to this discussion.

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

Our book about the corpus research on the project is published today. Ebook free to download https://t.co/dt5eD6Gqiu

[Helen Amass @Helen_Amass]

Is there a "slump" in literacy and vocabulary between Year 6 and 7? @ricketts_lara and colleagues decided to investigate, and here's what they found... https://t.co/zinXJKz9dI

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

Speaking at my first in-person conference since March 2020 tomorrow: #rED21 session 4, with @Marcusjones900 on our findings about science vocabulary at KS2 and KS3

[Faculti @FacultiNet]

Alice Deignan @alicedeignan @LeedsTransition @Education_Leeds @CLER_Leeds discusses the the range of academic #language encountered by students in YR 7/8 in in comparison with the language of YR 5/6 at primary #linguistics #primarytransition #education https://t.co/Oumxl89RpI

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

I'm looking forward to this! I'll be talking about our project in general and then the challenges presented by apparently straightforward vocabulary in Key Stage 3, developing from work by myself and @lovermob.

[Dr Robbie Love @lovermob]

It was great to present some findings about the lexical / grammatical complexity of teacher talk as part of the @LeedsTransition yesterday with @alicedeignan for @EnglishAston’s ‘Through the Language Lens’ seminar series. Thanks to all who attended. Recording available soon!

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

An excellent blog-post by Gary Chambers, one of the co-investigators of this project, about year 7 students' views about challenging words and phrases they encounter in Maths, English, Geography, History and Sciences.

[Centre for Language Education Research @CLER_Leeds]

‘Posh words’, ‘nerdy words’: what students say about language! New research insights by CLER researchers on @LeedsTransition project, led by @alicedeignan. Check out this blog by Gary Chambers. https://t.co/mIyomnYfrm

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

The 2020 Oxford Language Report featuring our research is summarised by Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish in the TES

https://t.co/HTgfSssakS

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

Our research has contributed to the 2020 Oxford Language Report on the impact of the ‘vocabulary gap’ in the transition from primary to secondary school. @alicedeignan @OxfordEdEnglish report.

https://t.co/dEn2WLeUd6?

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

@lovermob will present some findings based on our @LeedsTransition project. Follow the instructions https://t.co/L9Qvwu7upP to sign up for this talk.

[Dr Robbie Love @lovermob]

Looking forward to contributing to this fab series of talks @EnglishAston. I’ll be sharing ongoing work with @Education_Leeds on the @LeedsTransition project, exploring how teacher talk differs between primary and secondary school 📚

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

@alicedeignan gave a talk about using corpus methods to examine the linguistic challenges of the transition to high-school. Feel free to dm us for the slides of the talk. @LeedsTransition

#laelpucsp #webinars #appliedlinguistics #corpuslinguistics

[Dr Duygu Candarli @duygucandarli]

Two papers accepted for @ICAME41: one for the @leedstransition project and the other one co-authored with my colleague @YenDang61914935! #ICAME41

[Dr Robbie Love @lovermob]

We have a paper for the @LeedsTransition project accepted for @icame41 in Heidelberg! “Teacher talk and the school transition”, exploring our spoken corpus, with colleagues @alicedeignan, @duygucandarli and Gary Chambers

[Alice Deignan @alicedeignan]

Paper accepted for @CorporaJournal with @lovermob, the first from the @LeedsTransition project. "Using corpus methods to identify subject specific uses of polysemous words in English secondary school science materials". Pre-print: https://t.co/gnJGWrgXRZ

[Dr Robbie Love @lovermob]

Just one week until the deadline for our Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics post @UniversityLeeds, working on the @LeedsTransition project to explore the differences in academic language between primary and secondary school.

[Centre for Academic Writing @CAWCov]

To warm us up, the first question is, “How do you get started when you need to write a paper?” Remember to use the tags #AcWriMo #CamCov and get talking in the thread below :D @CUPAcademic

[Linguistic Challenges of the Transition @LeedsTransition]

Job opportunity: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics
https://t.co/QKndOmQAYC