樱花动漫

Vocabulary strand

This strand researches a range of issues surrounding the role of vocabulary in language education. Amongst other things, we research how vocabulary knowledge develops in first, second, and other languages; how words are used in different social contexts (especially in educational settings); and how vocabulary knowledge interacts with the skills of reading and writing. We host regular talks by both local and visiting speakers and an active reading group.

Feature projects

These are some of the projects we are involved in to explore the themes of our strand.

MULTIWRITE: Interactions Between First, Second and Third Languages (The Research Council of Norway) 

The learnability of 50,000 English formulaic expressions

A predictive model and a normative database (Hong Kong Research Grants Council)

Feature publications 

Durrant, Siyanova-Chanturia, Kremmel, & Sonbul (2022).

Alshehri & Zhang (2022). .

Durrant & Brenchley (2019).

Zhang & Koda (2017).