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      Nesi, H., T. Kelly and E. Ushioda. 2005-2007. ‘Chinese University Teacher Training in English (CUTE2)’.
      Funding body: HEFCE
      Summary: e-China~UK project with Cambridge, Tsinghua and Warwick Universities to help Chinese university academics develop English language skills for purposes of teaching, academic exchange and professional development.
      URL: http://www.echinauk.org/cases2/cute2/research.php
      Country of research: China
      Learners' background: China
      Entered by: University of Warwick (Centre for Applied Linguistics)
      Nesi, H., S.F. Gardner, P. Thompson and P. Wickens. 2004-2007. ‘An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education’.
      Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) RES-000-23-0800
      Summary: The corpus contains 2,761 proficient student assignments (2,897 texts, 6,506,995 words) produced and assessed as part of university degree coursework and fairly evenly distributed across 35 university disciplines and four levels of study. Each text is placed into one of thirteen genre families, according to its components and social purpose.
      URL: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/bawe
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H., S.F. Gardner, P. Thompson and P. Wickens. 2004-2007. ‘An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education’.
      Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK)
      Summary: ESRC Project no. 000-23-0800. See, for example, Gardner, S.F. 2008. 'Mapping Ideational Meaning in a Corpus of Student Writing' in Jones, C. & Ventola, E. (eds) New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning: From Language to Multimodality. London: Equinox Publishing. For other publications arising from the project, see: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/d/536
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Birmingham (School of Education)
      Nesi, H., S.F. Gardner, P. Thompson and P. Wickens. 2004-2007. ‘An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education’.
      Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
      Summary: This project (RES-000-23-0800) was a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, Reading and Oxford Brookes. The project aimed to develop the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus and describe the linguistic features of genres of assessed student writing in different disciplines.
      URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/bawe/
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Warwick (Centre for Applied Linguistics)
      Nesi, H. and P. Thompson. 2002-2005. ‘Enhancement of the British Academic Spoken English Corpus’.
      Funding body: Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) RE/AN6806/APN13545
      Summary: The BASE corpus consists of 160 lectures and 39 seminars recorded in a variety of university departments. It contains 1,644,942 tokens in total (lectures and seminars). Holdings are distributed equally across four broad disciplinary groups, Arts and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Science.
      URL: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/base
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. and P. Thompson. 2002-2005. ‘Enhancement of the British Academic Spoken English Corpus’.
      Funding body: Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)
      Summary: This project (RE/AN6806/APN13545) aimed to develop the BASE corpus of academic speech (with video recordings and transcripts of lectures and seminars across disciplines). The corpus consists of 160 lectures and 40 seminars recorded in a variety of departments at the Universities of Warwick and Reading.
      URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/base
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Warwick (Centre for Applied Linguistics)