Academic English

The term Academic English (henceforth AE) refers here to any form of English that includes features that are expected in academic settings, especially in academic writing, features that for the most part no one uses in his or her native English. Some parents may use many AE feat…

How are beliefs about the nature of knowledge reflected and reproduced in language use? It is clear that some linguistic resources, e.g. the modal verbs may and must, indicate one’s epistemic stance with respect to a proposition, i.e. one’s judgement of how likely it is to be tr…

This thesis investigates changes in Chinese undergraduate students’ language learning motivation during the transition from their home cultural setting to the host cultural setting, while studying on a China-UK 2+1 collaborative programme at the University of Bedfordshire. Since…