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Research in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2014

Ben Fenton-Smith  and
Ian Walkinshaw
Ben Fenton-Smith
Affiliation:
b.fenton-smith@griffith.edu.au
Ian Walkinshaw
Affiliation:
i.walkinshaw@griffith.edu.au
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Griffith University is set across five campuses in south-east Queensland, Australia, and has a student population of 43,000. The School of Languages and Linguistics (LAL) offers programs in linguistics, international English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, as well as English language enhancement courses. Research strands reflect the staff's varied scholarly interests, which include academic language and learning, sociolinguistics, second language learning/acquisition and teaching, computer assisted language learning (CALL) and language corpora. This report offers a summary of research recently published or currently underway within LAL.

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Research in Progress
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Language Teaching , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 404 - 408
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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