To conclude our @LeverhulmeTrust Research Leadership Award in style, we thought we'd share a sneak peak into the life of an interdisciplinary team working on language learning @petarmilin @RoryApplin @artsatbham @Eng_Lang_UoB @LCAHM_UoB @EDACS_UoB .

Here we are, or at least here’s the local half of the team, ready to embark on our annual Xmas lunch, and thinking about our team members far, far away, in the US, China and Japan! Merry Xmas to us all 🎄!

RT @dagmardivjak: New paper out 🎺 introducing process-based measures of automatisation in L2. The elicited imitation task is widely used as….

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Here’s @MackJustyna presenting our aspect training study: our error-correction model predicted faster and smoother learning for a grammar approach and slower and more variable learning for a lexical approach. Which type of learning deals with real language best?

RT @dagmardivjak: If you are a UK Home student who would like to pursue a fully funded PhD with us @ooominds, please get in touch on ooomin….

The paper is Open Access, courtesy of @UoBLibServices. Data and analysis code are available for download from Ubira and GitHub - follow the link in the paper.

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These findings have real-world applications, such as the way English is taught as a second language and understanding how we, as individuals, make judgments based on accents in high-stakes situations like job interviews.

We found a clear linear effect of conscientiousness: the more conscientious you are, the less acceptable you find foreign-accented speech, regardless of the presence of grammatical errors. Other personality types showed a more complex, nonlinear pattern.

We found that the article errors were more detrimental in the British accented speech than in the Polish accented speech and that the personality traits of the listeners had an impact on the acceptability ratings.

The 40 passages were read aloud by two British and two Polish speakers, one female and one male, at a natural speed. The participants were then asked to rate on a scale of 1-100 how the language sounded to them.

The poor grammar versions had different types of article errors (“the” or “a/an”) as in “I enjoy Edinburgh Fringe Festival” or “We celebrate the Christmas” or “We exchanged the wishes”.

We asked 60 first-language British English speakers, 30 men and 30 women, recruited in Birmingham, to listen to 40 recordings of short passages in English, with or without grammatical errors in either a British or Polish accent.

New paper now out, Open Access: . A foreign accent protects against being penalised for grammatical errors, depending on personality type . @petarmilin @HuiSunSLA @LeverhulmeTrust @Eng_Lang_UoB @LCAHM_UoB @EDACS_UoB @UoBLibServices @uob_bear .

RT @dagmardivjak: Wonderful view on the history of corpus linguistics by @MBWaiheke and a reminder for @ooominds that we have allies in the….

RT @MackJustyna: From theory to practice: making sense of eye-tracking data @ooominds lab in preparation for a new @MedalLinguist research….

RT @MackJustyna: This week we are hosting Piia Taremaa from @unitartu as part of @MedalLinguist mentoring initiative. Piaa gave a talk to @….

One of our team took her expertise off the beaten track and works with a medievalist on using eye tracking to explore how modern readers enable with manuscripts. Congratulations @ShiyuHe1 @artsatbham @LCAHM_UoB.

Latest paper from our team - and our first registered report - with @LauRomain @petarmilin and @dagmardivjak now out in @_LangLearning, open access! @artsatbham @EDACS_UoB @Eng_Lang_UoB.

RT @dagmardivjak: Congratulations @ashleyrblake ! Being part of your supervisory team was a real pleasure! Wonderful to see the direct link….