Staff Profile:Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller
- Name:
- Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller
- Job Title:
- Professor of Second Language Education
- Responsibilities:
Convenor of the Second Language Acquisition Research Group
Teaching:
Second Language Acquisition, Assessment and Measurement (MA in Education)
- Areas of Interest:
Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters, Phd and Ed D levels:
- Bilingualism and Language Contact
- Code-switching, borrowing, transfer and contact-induced change
- Measuring bilingual language proficiency
- Second Language Acquisition
- The expression of movement in different languages
- Vocabulary learning and teaching
- Lexical richness
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Native-like selection of lexical items in bilinguals
Examples of masters theses I have supervised:
Effects of reading tasks on incidental vocabulary acquisition
English vocabulary knowledge of asylum seekers: an analysis of picture stories
Using category fluency tests and semantic fluency tests to measure language ability in bilinguals
I welcome proposals in any area that is related to my research. I am particularlyinterested in M-level projects which aim to test how vocabulary or grammar points are best taught, either in English as a Foreign Language, or teaching of MFL in mainstream schools or teaching of community languages in complementary schools.
Current and recent research projects:
Most of my research focuses on Bilingualism and Language Contact, in particular on code-switching, borrowing and contact-induced language change.
More recently I have worked on conceptual transfer and the relationship between language and thought in bilinguals and L2 learners, in particular in relation to motion event construal (manner and path of motion). I have also studied vocabulary richness and syntactic complexity in Turkish-German bilinguals.
Work on vocabulary forms my second main area of interest. Together with other members of the M4 Applied Linguistics Network (http://www.lognostics.co.uk/M4AL/index.htm) I organised an ESRC seminar series entitled Models and measures of vocabulary acquisition, knowledge and use: the interface between theory and applications from 2006-2007, which resulted in a range of publications: a jointly edited special issue of the Journal of French Language Studies (CUP), entitled Knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language, of which I was the lead editor, as well as special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism and a book with Palgrave.
Finally I co-ordinated of the Learner Language Project at UWE Bristol which focuses on the development of oral proficiency of learners of English, French, German and Spanish. The data will be donated to the CHILDES database.
A full CV can be accessed here
Research supervision:
Currently I am first supervisor the following PhD students:
Arjen de Korte (The Netherlands): teaching of English grammar to Dutch pupils
Zdislava Šiškova (Czech Republic): lexical richness and cohesion in essays of Czech EFL learners
I am on the supervisory team of PhD students who work on Polish-English code-switching and on modality markers in the ambassadorial speeches of American and British ambassadors in Vietnam.
Two students completed their PhD project under my supervision. Dr Çiler Hatipoğlu completed her PhD on cultural and gender differences in the use of apologies in English and Turkish in 2003 (within three years). Çiler now works as Associate Professor at Middle Eastern Technical University in Ankara.
Dr Xu Ziyan studied motion event construal among Chinese and French EFL learners and completed in 2010. Ziyan works as a lecturer in EFL at Beijing Institute for Technology. I was also on the supervisory team of two others who completed in 2007, and one who completed in 2011.
I welcome further applications from PhD students in areas related to my own research specialisms.
- Research groups / Centres:
Second Language Research Group
- Publications:
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Books/special issues
Treffers-Daller, J & Sakel, J. (2012). New perspectives on transfer among bilinguals and L2 users. Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, 16 (1).
Daller, M. D. Malvern, J.L. Milton, B.J. Richards, J. Treffers-Daller (2011). Operationalising language dominance: what measures of lexical richness can tell us about bilingual ability. Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, volume 15(2). Kingston Press. ISSN 1367-0069.
Richards, Brian, Michael H. Daller, David D.Malvern, James Milton and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.) (2009). Vocabulary Studies in L1 and L2 acquisition: the interface between theory and application. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Treffers-Daller. J, M. Daller, , D. Malvern, J.L. Milton, B.J. Richards (2008), Knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language. Special issue of the Journal of French Language Studies (CUP). ISSN: 0959-2695.
Articles in refereed journals:
Treffers-Daller, J. (2012). Grammatical collocations and verb-particle constructions in Brussels French: a corpus-linguistic approach to transfer International Journal of Bilingualism, 16 (1). doi:10.1177/1367006911403213
Daller, M. H., Treffers-Daller, J. & Furman, R. (2011). Transfer of conceptualisation patterns in bilinguals: the construal of motion events in Turkish and German. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition, 14 (1), 95-119. doi: 10.1017/S1366728910000106
Treffers-Daller, J. (2011). Operationalizing and measuring language dominance. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15(2), 147-163. doi:10.1177/1367006910381186
Larrañaga, Pilar, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Françoise Tidball and Maricarmen Gil Ortega (2011): L1-transfer in the acquisition of manner and path in Spanish by native speakers of English. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi: 10.1177/1367006911405577.
Recent conference organisation:
Exploratory Workshop on Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing in Two Languages (sponsored by the European Science Foundation). Institute of Education, University of Reading, 13-15 September 2012 (with Panos Athanasopoulos, University of Newcastle).
Workshop on Theory and Practice in Vocabulary Learning and Teaching (sponsored by the HE Academy). Institute of Education, University of Reading, 20th January 2012.
Annual Meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Theme: The Impact of Applied Linguistics. September 2011 at UWE Bristol (300 participants). With Jo Angouri (UWE Bristol).
Colloquium on Language dominance at the 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo June 2011. With Carmen Silva-Corvalán (University of Southern California).
Organiser of the Annual Meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Theme: The Impact of Applied Linguistics. September 2011 at UWE Bristol (330 participants expected). With Jo Angouri.
Recent conference papers:
Measuring language dominance in Polish-English bilinguals with CLAN (with Tomasz Korybski). At the workshop on Innovative approaches to language testing, organised by the B AAL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG research. University of Bedfordshire, 18 November 2011.
Context and meaning in motion event construal among L2 learners of French and English. I-mean conference, UWE Bristol, 14 April 2011.
Validating a measure of language dominance. Colloquium on the Validity of Vocabulary Measures. Convenors: Scott Jarvis (Ohio) and Michael Daller (UWE Bristol). AAAL, California, 26-29 March 2010.
Measuring language dominance. 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Oslo, 15-18 June 2011/.
Invited papers:
Bedfordshire, 16 December 2011. Vocabulary size revisited (with J.Milton). Research seminar at the CRELLA Centre, University of Bedfordshire.
Sussex, 31 October 2011. Can L2 learners learn new ways to conceptualise motion?
Oxford, Institute of Education, 15 May 2011. Engaging with superdiversity: vocabulary development in bilingual children in the context of the Vocabuild project (with Geraldine Bates).
Bangor, 25 October 2010. 'A usage-based approach to motion event construal among L2 learners of French and English'. Research seminar at the ESRC Centre for Bilingualism in Theory and Practice.
Brussels, 15-17 October 2009, Plenary speaker at the Colloquium in honour of Roland Willemyns.
Editorships:
Since June 1999 I have been a member of the Editorial Board of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press). ISSN: 1366-7289. In 2008 this membership was extended .
Since September 1999 I have been a member of the Editorial Board of Impact: Studies in Language and Society (book series of Benjamins). ISSN: 1385-7908 (29 volumes so far).
Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:
I co-ordinate the Vocabuild Project, which focuses on vocabulary knowledge and use of bilingual children. This project is an interdisciplinary initiative led by specialists of Linguistics, Primary Education and Speech and Language Therapy. The project focuses on vocabulary development of bilingual children, children with English as an additional language and children with Speech and Language Communication Needs. See (add link).
External examiner for a PhD viva voce in Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1999; Reading, 2001; Bristol, 2004; UCL, 2005; Cardiff, 2008; Bangor 2010; Nijmegen 2010; Swansea December 2010; Groningen 2011).
External examiner for the MA in English Language at Sussex University (from 2010)
Chair of the Linguistics Specialist Group, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. HE Academy (from August 2009)
Elected Consulting Member of the Committee of the International Symposium on Bilingualism. See http://www.isb6.org/static/loc.php (2007-2009)
Grants:
2011. £1000 for organising a workshop on the employability of Linguistics/English Language Students. 14th April 2011 at UWE Bristol.
2010: £3,500 from the Knowledge Transfer Fund of UWE Bristol for the Vocabuild project
2006. Travel grant (£500) for the conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (Montreal June 2006).
2005. ESRC research seminar grant of £15,321.14 for organising a series of seminars on Models and Measures of Vocabulary Acquisition, Knowledge and Use, together with colleagues from UWE (Daller), Reading (Malvern and Richards) and Swansea (Meara and Milton).
