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Research
Research interests within the School of Languages including applied linguistics, teaching native speakers of foreign languages.
In this section
- Research expertise - An overview of the Languages academic staff and the vast expertise they bring to AUT
- Current research - A broad scan across the research being done in Languages at AUT
- Our staff - Meet the academic staff in the School of Languages.
Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) - an international collaboration
The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) is an international collaboration of staff in three universities in three different countries. It was started at Coventry University under the leadership of Professor Hilary Nesi, and in collaboration with Associate Professor Ummul Ahmad at University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Following this, Dr Lynn Grant at AUT University became part of the project.
The original aim was for all of us to video and transcribe at least 20 hours of Engineering lectures each. The aim now is for the ELC to be a growing collection of transcripts of English-medium engineering lectures from around the world.
The overall aims of the ELC are to:
- Identify and describe typical engineering lecture discourse features
- Compare English-medium engineering lecturing styles in different parts of the world
- Explore the current role of English-medium instruction in engineering
Corpus development thus far has been assisted by a British Council PMI2 Research Cooperation grant and study into lecturing styles (UK and Malaysia), and AUT University Applied Humanities faculty grant AX08/19 (NZ). The corpus currently contains lectures from different branches of engineering from Coventry University in the UK, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
The AUT University part of the Engineering Lecture Corpus includes the following:
- 17 hours of Electrical Engineering lecture
- 4 hours of Mechanical Design Methodology lectures
- 3 hours of Solid Mechanics lectures
- 3 hours of Fluid Mechanics lectures
- 3 hours of Engineering Graphics lectures
Useful research and consultancy links
The School of Languages maintains close links with a number of AUT University Research Institutes and Centres, including:
- Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication
- New Zealand Work and Labour Market Institute (NZWaLMI)
- New Zealand Tourism Research Institute
Journals
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses
- Discourse & Communication
- Australia Journal of Linguistics
- Critical Discourse Studies
Associations
- Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages (CLESOL)
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Aotearoa New Zealand (TESOLANZ)