Research in the Centre focuses on the relationships between Applied Linguistics and professional practice in a range of international and multinational contexts, especially in the areas of English language learning, teaching, and assessment, professional discourse, and working across cultures. We are one of the leading centres nationally and internationally for work in these areas, and our aim is to continue to nurture and carry out high quality research, which amongst other things involves developing innovative research methods.

Research in the Centre thus clusters around three main research groups, sometimes cross-cutting:

• English Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment (ELLTA)
• Professional and Academic Discourse (PAD)
• Working and Communicating across Cultures (WACC)

For further information on our research groups, and the projects they are involved with, please click on the links next to each group. If you are interested in our major projects or collections, please click on the navigation tabs at the top.

We welcome applications from suitably qualified people who wish to undertake postgraduate research (PhD or MPhil ) in any of these areas. For more details, including staff research interests, please see Research Degree Programmes.

For a list of recent theses, please see Research Theses

Our links with Education

Our research forms part of a broader range of educational research at the University of Warwick. This is undertaken in four units: the Warwick Institute of Education; the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR); the Centre for Education and Industry (CEI) and our Centre, the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Four main themes underlie all the research, as shown in the table below. CAL’s research contributes significantly to two of these themes: Teaching, Learning and Professional Practice (especially through our ELLTA research interest group) and Culture, Communication and Identity (especially through our PAD and WACC research interest groups).

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