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      Setter, J. 2005. ‘Listening to other Englishes: British listeners on Singapore speakers’ in English in Singapore: Phonetic Research on a Corpus. Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia), pp. 163-172
      Book editor(s): Deterding, D., A. Brown and E.L. Low.
      ISBN: 978-0071247276
      Summary: This chapter reports results of a study on two British listeners' opinions and understanding of Singapore English speakers.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: Singapore
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Reading (Department of Applied Linguistics)
      Cutting, J. 2005. ‘Spoken grammar: Vague language and EAP’ in Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan
      Book editor(s): Hughes, R.
      ISBN: 9780230217041
      Summary: This chapter argues that implicitness is an essential feature of spoken grammar, lexis and discourse structure, that it demands a systematic study of its inter-related parts, and that it should be a central part of the model taught to students of English as a Foreign Language, so that they can be helped to communicate on all levels with their interlocutors.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      Lee, C.N. 2005. Supporting English Learning in the Family: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Young Korean-English Learner.
      Supervisor(s): Mitchell, R.
      Awarding institution: University of Southampton
      Summary: This was a longitudinal case study of a Korean L1 child learning English over several months' residence in England. Interaction with family and peers was analysed using a sociocultural framework.
      Thesis type: PhD
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
      Institutional level: primary
      Entered by: University of Southampton (Modern Languages, School of Humanities)
      Hoey, M. 2005. ‘Synonymy, polysemy and a drinking problem’ in Selected Papers from the Second Regional English Conference on Language and Change held at the Lebanese American University. Beirut: Librairie du Liban
      Editor(s): Bahous, R. and N. Bacha.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Entered by: University of Liverpool (School of English)
      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)