Lorrae Fox
PhD studentResearch Overview
I am a PhD Student in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. My main research interests are phraseology, corpus linguistics and language testing. My thesis project focuses on the intersection of these three areas as I work with Trinity College London, a major language examination board, using corpus methods to help inform language testing
I am contributing to the building of the Trinity Lancaster L1 Corpus, the parallel L1 counterpart to the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, a 4.2-million-word learner corpus of interactional spoken English of examiners and candidates.
Thesis Title
Phraseological competence in spoken L1 and L2 English: Using corpus methods to inform language testing
Qualifications
PhD Linguistics, Lancaster University (in progress)
MA TESL, University of Idaho (2017)
BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University (2014)
Current Teaching
LING326 - Corpus-based English Language Studies (19/20)
LING228 - Child Language Acquisition (19/20)