Dr Helen Woodfield

Research summary

'Teachers into Researchers', A study of learning to research on a Masters in TESOL programme.

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Biography

Helen's research interests focus on second language acquisition, interlanguage pragmatics (Phd.Bristol 2004), cross-cultural pragmatics and linguistic politeness.  Her PhD research investigated ESL learners' and native speakers' written and oral responses to discourse completion tasks combining paired verbal report with written production questionnaires.  Conference presentations and publications focus on interlanguage pragmatics, variational pragmatics and methodology in interlanguage pragmatics research.  Recent funded research projects (Teachers into Researchers) have examined the development of teachers as researchers in contexts of HE.

Helen is currently Co-Director of Masters Programmes (with Elisabeth Lazarus) and contributes to postgraduate and doctoral programmes in TESOL and Applied ...

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Selected publications

• Ren, CYLW & Woodfield, H 2013, ‘Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: some insights from an empirical study’. in: Istvan Kecskes, Jesus Romero-Trillo (eds) Linguistic Aspects of Intercultural Pragmatics. De Gruyter
• Lin, WRCY & Woodfield, H 2012, ‘Compliments in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese: The Influence of Region and Compliment Topic’. Journal of Pragmatics, vol 44., pp. 1486-1502

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