CLaRA (Centre for Language Research at Aston) is an interdisciplinary, multilingual group of researchers – academic staff and research students – who work in the field of language and language education research. The main aim of CLaRA is to build on Aston’s longstanding expertise in research into language education, modern foreign languages, applied and sociolinguistics by promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and establishing national and international networks and partnerships. We focus on:
- Research into languages and cultures
- Translating cultures
- Multilingualism and language contact
- Language policy
- First and second language learning and teaching
- Language teacher education
- Language education for professional and intercultural communication
- Corpus Linguistics
We aim to promote collaboration among researchers in these areas of Aston’s School of Languages and Social Sciences and across the university, and to establish international research networks and partnerships.
Co-Directors:
- Professor Gertrud Reershemius
- Dr Sue Garton
Key researchers:
- Ania Bailey
- Dr Judith Baxter
- Prof Anne Burns
- Dr Urszula Clark
- Robert Fox
- Dr Claudia Gremler
- Jacqueline Harding
- Dr Severine Hubscher-Davidson
- Dr Nur Kurtoglu-Hooton
- Dr Emmanuelle Labeau
- Dr Stefan Manz
- Dr Rachel Medina
- Prof Pam Moores
- Dr Muna Morris-Adams
- Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla
- Dr Garry Plappert
- David Pollard
- Prof Christina Schäffner
- Dr Branka Visnjic
- Elisabeth Wielander
To find out more about the centre, click here.
To contact CLaRA or to join the centre’s mailing list, email lss_clara@aston.ac.uk.
Join us on Twitter: @CLaRAatAston
