Dr Christopher J Hall

BA (Newcastle ), MA (York), PhD (Southern California)

Reader in Applied Linguistics

Contact details

T: +44 (0)1904 876876

Research & Publications

Publications

Books

Merrison, A. J., Griffiths, P., Bloomer, A. & Hall, C. J. (forthcoming). Introducing language in use (2^nd edn.). London and New York: Routledge.
Hall, C. J., Smith. P. H. & Wicaksono, R. (2011). Mapping applied linguistics. A guide for students and practitioners. London and New York: Routledge.
Hall, C. J. (2005). An introduction to language and linguistics. Breaking the language spell. London and New York: Continuum.
Hall, C. J. (1992). Morphology and mind. A unified approach to explanation in linguistics. London and New York: Routledge.

Recent peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Hall, C. J. (2013). Cognitive contributions to plurilithic views of English and other languages. Applied Linguistics, 34, 211-231.
Hall, C. J., Schmidtke, D. & Vickers, J. (2013). Countability in world Englishes. World Englishes, 32, 1, 1-22.
Ecke, P. & Hall, C. J. (2012). Tracking tip-of-the-tongue states in a multilingual speaker: Evidence of attrition or instability in lexical systems? International Journal of Bilingualism.doi: 10.1177/1367006912454623
Hall, C. J. & Reyes, A. (2009). Cross-linguistic influence in L2 verb frames: the effects of word familiarity and language proficiency. In Benati, A. & Roehr, K. (Ed.), Issues in second language proficiency (pp. 24-44). London: Continuum.
Hall, C. J., Newbrand, D., Ecke, P., Sperr. U., Marchand, V. & Hayes, L. (2009). Learners’ implicit assumptions about syntactic frames in new L3 words: The role of cognates, typological proximity and L2 status. Language Learning, 59, 1, 153-202.

Other recent articles

Hall, C. J., Wicaksono, R., Liu, S., Qian, Y. and Xiaoqing, X. (2013). English reconceived: Raising teachers' awareness of English as a ‘plurilithic’ resource through an online course. London: British Council.
Hall, C. J. (2012). Testing Englishes: Time to move from monolithic myth to plurilithic reality? IATEFL TEASIG Newsletter, 52, 19-22.
Hall, C. J., Smith, P. H. and Wicaksono, R. (2012). Mapping applied linguistics from the bottom up: A conversation. ELT Research, 26, 24-26.

Academic conferences and seminars

Plenary addresses, keynote addresses and invited talks

Cognitive resources and processes in ELF. A construction-based approach (Invited lecture). Launch of the Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, May 2012.
“Mind the gap”. Teachers’ incompatible conceptions of English as an International Language (Invited lecture). Research Seminar Series, School of Education, University of Leeds, March 2012.
Ontologies of English: Can teachers’ beliefs be reconciled? (Invited lecture). Research Seminar Series, Centre for Language Learning Research, University of York, December 2011.
Linguistics for theorists of musical understanding (Invited lecture). Research Seminar Series, Leeds College of Music, May 2010.
Multiple Englishes, multiple attainments and the multilingual mind (Invited lecture). Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Research Seminar Series, University of Greenwich, London, March 2010.
The bilingual lexicon as cognition and culture (Invited lectures): (I) The Parasitic Model of vocabulary development in additional languages; (II) Ultimate attainment in vocabulary development: The challenge from World Englishes. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, April 2009.

Peer-reviewed talks

Changing Englishes and conceptions of English in a globalizing world: teachers’ experiences using an online course (with Rachel Wicaksono). Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Dallas, USA, March 2013.
Reconciling beliefs about form and function in ELF for English teachers. 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. (Paper in the Special Symposium on Approaching Complexity in ELF Research, organised by Robert Baird, University of Southampton.)
Language disinvention for ELT from the bottom-up, through theory and talk. 16th World Congress of Applied Linguisitcs, Beijing, China, August 2011. (Part of the symposium Applied Linguistics from the Bottom-up, co-organised with Patrick H Smith and Rachel Wicaksono.)
World Englishes, ELF, language disinvention and language cognition: Complementary perspectives on L2 learning, teaching and assessment. 6^th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group Conference, King's College London, July 2010.
Which nouns count in English as a Lingua Franca. 3rd International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, University of Vienna, Austria, May 2010.

Professional conferences and seminars

Plenary addresses, keynote addresses and invited talks

Changing Englishes for international communication (Invited lecture). Higher Education Academy seminar on Changing Englishes in Internationalising Universities, York St John University, September 2012.
Handling hybridity: British English, China English, English as a Lingua Franca (Invited lectures). (a) British Council, Beijing, China; (b) Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China; and (c) Changshu Institute of Technology, China, September 2010.
Preparing for TEsSOL (Teaching Englishes to Speakers of Other Languages) (Plenary address). 36^th National Conference of the Mexican Association of Teachers of English (MEXTESOL), Monterrey, Mexico, October 2009.
“One language and many voices.” Which nouns count in English as a Lingua Franca (Keynote address). 36^th National Conference of the Mexican Association of Teachers of English (MEXTESOL), Monterrey, Mexico, October 2009.
English for international opportunity: The role of native-speaker norms (Keynote address). British Council IELTS Conference, Shanghai, China, December 2008.
World Englishes, vocabulary teaching and the mental lexicon (Keynote address). 35^th National Conference of the Mexican Association of Teachers of English (MEXTESOL), León, Mexico, October 2008.

Peer-reviewed talks

Challenging monolithic models of English. An online tutorial. 46^th Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, Glasgow, March 2012.
Meaning in second language acquisition: Insights from Conceptual Semantics. 32nd National Conference of the Mexican Association of Teachers of English (MEXTESOL), Zacatecas, Mexico, October 2005.