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      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)
      Cutting, J. 2003-2006. ‘ELSY: Devising a Multimedia Airport Syllabus for Young People who are Unemployed and Under-qualified’.
      Funding body: European Commission Leonardo Language Competences
      Summary: A survey of the language used by unskilled airport workers - security guard, bus driver, fast food worker and ground handler - was used as a basis for designing English Language Teaching materials on CD.
      URL: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/lingua/community/community5.pdf
      Institutional level: adult
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      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)
      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