LINGUIST List 26.4661
Tue Oct 20 2015
FYI: Christopher Brumfit Award 2014
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 20-Oct-2015
From: Melissa Good <mgood
cambridge.org>
Subject: Christopher Brumfit Award 2014
E-mail this message to a friend The Editor and Board of Language Teaching are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Christopher Brumfit thesis award is Dr. Hilde van Zeeland.
The thesis was selected by an external panel of judges based on its significance to the field of second language acquisition, second or foreign language learning and teaching, originality and creativity and quality of presentation. The external referees commented on ‘an ambitious research project, which demonstrates that it is possible to take a principled and systematic approach to the investigation of complex and ‘messy’ aspects of language use. Designed and executed with great care and presented with exemplary clarity, it contributes to knowledge in the field by exposing problematic assumptions which have weakened the validity of previous research. Unusually for a PhD thesis, it not only invites replication studies but also provides other researchers with a toolkit.’ Dr. van Zeeland completed her thesis at the University of Nottingham, UK under the supervision of Professor Norbert Schmitt.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
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