Latest News
22 Apr 2024
Entering the Dragons' Den! BAAL funded workshop
The Language Learning Psychology PhD Community Organising Team successfully bid for funding to run a Researcher Development Workshop. Entering the Dragons' Den: Pitching Qualitative Methods in PLLT Research will be held at the University of Nottingham on 10th June 2024 with Dr Sal Consoli & Dr Christine Muir as guest speakers and 'Dragons'. Registration is open to BAAL members until 9th May 2024.
16 Jan 2024
Officially Dr Sidaway!
We were all delighted to see photos of our group founder Dr Kathryn Sidaway officially graduating in her cap and gown. Definitely an inspiration for us all! Congratulations, Kathryn!
26 Jun 2023
BAAL VOCAB SIG Conference 2023
Denny Vlaeva presented a paper entitled 'Using habit-building techniques in vocabulary learning: Insight from a longitudinal event-sampling study' at the annual BAAL Vocab SIG Conference at Nottingham Trent University.
22 Jun 2023
Guest Speaker: Dr Martin Lamb
We hosted Dr Martin Lamb at our June monthly meeting, in which he talked about all things unconscious motivation. Thank you again for coming to visit us!
21 Jun 2023
CRELLU PGR Conference
Siying Shen presented a paper entitled 'Understanding Mandarin learners’ motivation in/with their context: A data-rich approach in a longitudinal study' at the University of York Centre for Research in Language Learning and Use PGR Conference, with the theme Meeting Methodologies.
17 Jun 2023
Bridging Global Citizenship And Multilingual Competences Conference
Group members Bochra Kouraichi, Carlos Murillo, Giulia Sulis, and Katarina Mentzelopoulos met up at the University of Graz, Austria for the Bridging Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences International Conference!Bochra presented a paper entitled '"If everything goes well, I'll be a proficient speaker": Estonian Students’ LOTE Motivation', and Katarina presented one entitled 'In the words of the learner: Capturing the complexity of multilingual motivation through narrative'. Carlos and Giulia helped organise the conference.
10 May 2023
Viva Sucess!
Congratulations to Dr Bochra Kouraïchi who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Well done, Bochra!
1 May 2023
New Reading Group - Summer 2023
Dr Wang Zi is starting a reading group to keep everyone motivated over the summer months. For more information, please see the advertisement.
3 Mar 2023
Scholarship
Meifang Zhuo has been awarded the IATEFL Research SIG PCE Scholarship. Congratulations!
23 Nov 2022
Celebrating Two Years Of LLP
We hosted a lunchtime reception at the University of Warwick to celebrate two years since our LLP PhD Community's first meeting. Thank you to the University of Warwick Doctoral College and the ESRC for funding for this event, and to our members new and old who could make this idea a real community!
9 Oct 2022
IATEFL Hungary
7th - 9th October 2022 Veronika Derecskey and Bochra Kouraïchi presented their research at the IATEFL Hungary conference. You can read about their experiences in their blog post on this website.
30 Sept 2022
ESREA
Kathryn Sidaway presented at the ESREA triennial conference at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy where she won the award for the best PhD paper.
16 Sept 2022
SLTED 2022
Meifang Zhuo presented her research into literature circles at the Second Language Teacher Education conference in Vienna, Austria.
21 Jul 2022
Guest Speaker: Dr Christine Muir
We hosted Dr. Christine Muir as a guest speaker at our July monthly meeting. Thanks again for sharing your insights on the early career researcher journey!
19 Jul 2022
Zi Wang Graduation
Dr. Zi Wang graduated with her PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick! Big congratulations to Dr. Wang!
14 Jul 2022
LLP Birmingham Trip
We hosted an in-person meeting in Birmingham, where we talked about all manner of things to do with research and language learner psychology! It was wonderful see each other in person, many of us for the first time. Thank you to the University of Warwick Doctoral College for funding for this event.
25 Jun 2022
PLL4 Conference
Denny Vlaeva presented her recent research into vision interventions at PLL4, Canada.
23 Jun 2022
Esrc Mgs Conference 2022 - Veronika
Veronika Derecskey presented her research into the causes of EFL teacher demotivation in Hungary at the University of Loughborough ESRC Conference.
23 Jun 2022
Esrc Mgs Conference 2022 - Sundeep
Sundeep Dhillon presented her research into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teachers' digital development at the University of Loughborough ESRC Conference.
