Rachel Wicaksono
Head of Subject, Languages &
Linguistics
Contact details
E: r.wicaksono@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876965
I’m an applied linguist with a specific
research interest in additional language education, in
particular:
- World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca
- Assessment of language learning and proficiency
- Classroom language
- Multilingual group work and intercultural communication
- Technology for learning and teaching languages
- Discourse analysis
I am currently working with some of my
students on a project that uses discourse analysis to explore the
nature of communication in mixed nationality academic group
work. The aim of the project is to design a classroom-based
task that will raise all students’ awareness of the ways
they interact with each other and how this interaction brings
roles, attitudes and outcomes into being. We hope to
sensitise students in all subject areas to the negotiated nature of
English as a lingua franca; a process that demands as much effort
and expertise from students who have grown up speaking English as
their first language, as from the students who are learning English
as an additional language.