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Cross-linguistic lexical effects in different-script bilingual reading are modulated by task (2020)
Journal Article
Allen, D., Conklin, K., & Miwa, K. (2021). Cross-linguistic lexical effects in different-script bilingual reading are modulated by task. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25(1), 168-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006920943974

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Bilingual lexical processing is non-selective, which allows for activation of the non-target language, even when reading in a different script. However, while the influence of cross-script L1 lexical kn... Read More about Cross-linguistic lexical effects in different-script bilingual reading are modulated by task.

Corpus discourse and mental health (2020)
Book
Hunt, D., & Brookes, G. (2020). Corpus discourse and mental health. Bloomsbury Publishing

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication, Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health provides insights into the linguistic practices of members of three online support communities as they describe their experiences of living... Read More about Corpus discourse and mental health.

Discourse and health communication (2020)
Book Chapter
Brookes, G., & Hunt, D. (2020). Discourse and health communication. In Corpus discourse and mental health. Bloomsbury Publishing

Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism (2020)
Book
Mullany, L. (Ed.). (2020). Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism. Palgrave Macmillan

This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors. The book takes a critical approach to understanding profe... Read More about Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism.

What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language (2020)
Journal Article
Conklin, K., Alotaibi, S., Pellicer-Sánchez, A., & Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L. (2020). What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language. Second Language Research, 36(3), 257-276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320921496

Reading-while-listening has been shown to be advantageous in second language learning. However, research to date has not addressed how the addition of auditory input changes reading itself. Identifying how reading differs in reading-while-listening a... Read More about What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language.

Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction (2020)
Journal Article
Godfroid, A., Winke, P., & Conklin, K. (2020). Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction. Second Language Research, 36(3), 243-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320922578

In this paper, we review how eye tracking, which offers millisecond-precise information about how language learners orient their visual attention, can be used to investigate a variety of processes involved in the multifaceted endeavor of second langu... Read More about Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction.

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway (2020)
Journal Article
Grisot, G., Conklin, K., & Sotirova, V. (2020). Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway. Language and Literature, 29(2), 103-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020924202

Woolf’s work has been the object of several studies concerned with her experimental use of techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation. These investigated the way in which different perspectives coexist and alternate in her writing,... Read More about Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism (2020)
Journal Article
Matthews, S. (2020). T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism. Japan D.H. Lawrence Studies, 30, 23-57

Eliot and Lawrence have long been considered the opposed critical, social and intellectual poles of Modernism. F. R. Leavis's indignant catalogue of Eliot's attacks on Lawrence established the orthodox position: Eliot was 'the essential opposition in... Read More about T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and the Structure of Feeling of Modernism.

Squid Squad: A Novel (2020)
Book
Welton, M. (2020). Squid Squad: A Novel. Carcanet

In Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling their walnuts from the window. They contemplate the spaces between the spaces between t... Read More about Squid Squad: A Novel.

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”:

They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.

Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study (2020)
Journal Article
Pellicer-Sánchez, A., Tragant, E., Conklin, K., Rodgers, M., Serrano, R., & Llanes, Á. (2020). Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(3), 577-598. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263120000091

Theories of multimedia learning suggest that learners can form better referential connections when verbal and visual materials are presented simultaneously. Furthermore, the addition of auditory input in reading-while-listening conditions benefits pe... Read More about Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study.

Keeping time (2020)
Book
Legendre, T. (2020). Keeping time. Acre Books

Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers (2020)
Journal Article
Pears, B., Brown, A., Carroll, J., Toms, P., Wood, J., & Jones, R. (2020). Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers. European Journal of Archaeology, 23(3), 381-405. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.72

Environmental information from place-names has largely been overlooked by geoarchaeologists and fluvial geomorphologists in analyses of the depositional histories of rivers and floodplains. Here, new flood chronologies for the rivers Teme, Severn, an... Read More about Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers.

Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works (2020)
Journal Article
Guy, J. M. (2020). Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 63(3), 346-375

Richard Ellmann termed Vera a "wretched play." In Oscar Wilde Revalued (1983), Ian Small could name only two critics gave it serious attention: Katherine Worth and Frances Miriam Reed. In Oscar Wilde Recent Research (2000), Small again found only two... Read More about Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works.

Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms (2020)
Book
Mercer, S., & Dornyei, Z. (2020). Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms. Cambridge University Press (CUP)

This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge,... Read More about Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms.

Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities (2020)
Book
Kilby, S. (2020). Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities. University of Hertfordshire Press

This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectu... Read More about Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities.