LINGUIST List 22.3577 Tue Sep 13 2011 FYI: Cambridge/Language Teaching Brumfit Award 2010 Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Melissa Good , Cambridge/Language Teaching Brumfit Award 2010 Message 1: Cambridge/Language Teaching Brumfit Award 2010 Date: 13-Sep-2011 From: Melissa Good <mgoodcambridge.org> Subject: Cambridge/Language Teaching Brumfit Award 2010 E-mail this message to a friend Christopher Brumfit Ph.D./Ed.D. Thesis Award 2010 Sponsored by Cambridge University Press and promoted by Language Teaching The Editor and Board of Language Teaching are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2010 Christopher Brumfit thesis award is Dr Susan Mary Macqueen. Dr Macqueen’s Ph.D. thesis, entitled 'The emergence of patterns in second language writing', was selected by an external panel of judges based on its significance to the fields of second language acquisition, second or foreign language learning and teaching, and its originality, creativity and quality of presentation. Drawing upon a convergence of sociocultural theory and linguistic emergentism, it reports on a long- term investigation of the development of four ESL users’ written lexicogrammatical patterning. A qualitative methodology (Lexical Trail Analysis) was developed in order to capture a dynamic and historical view of the ways in which the participants combined words. The external referees remarked of the thesis that it represented ‘a fascinating qualitative and longitudinal study of lexical development. The objective is to highlight the psychological, rather than the linguistic, aspects of lexical pattern acquisition, which is novel in its holistic approach to the process as a complex and socially situated act. While the study has important implications for the field of lexical acquisition, it is equally relevant for the field at large, as it is able to bring together compatible theories (emergentism/ecological theories and sociocultural theory) while illustrating in great detail the profound complexity and interplay of the social and cognitive realms of second language acquisition’. Dr Macqueen completed her dissertation at the University of Melbourne, Australia under the supervision of Professor Gillian Wigglesworth. This year’s runner-up was Dr Justina Ong. Dr Ong’s Ph.D. thesis, 'Effects of planning and revising on Chinese ESL learners’ text quality', was presented at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang. The study investigated the effects of planning (extended pre-task, pretask, free-writing, and control), sub- planning (topic, ideas and macro-structure, topic and ideas, and topic given), and revising (draft and no draft available) conditions on fluency,lexical complexity, and text quality of 108 Chinese ESL learners’ argumentative texts. It was singled out for praise as ‘a refreshing advance into the study of writing tasks. It has classroom face-validity in terms of the various experimental conditions, it links to the L1 writing literature, it shows new thinking, and implicitly raises big questions about the two main task complexity models that have obsessed research in the last few years’. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.