Research Outputs

Deignan, A., Candarli, D., and Oxley, F. (2023). The Linguistic Challenge of Transition to Secondary School. Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003081890

This book is open access.

Deignan A, and Love, R. (2021). Using corpus methods to identify subject specific uses of polysemous words in English secondary school science materials. Corpora. 16 (2):165-189. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0216

Inglis, M., and Deignan, A. (2022).The change in science language as a result of transition from primary to secondary school . BERA Conference 2022, Liverpool, UK. 6-8 September 2022.

Deignan, A. and Candarli, D. (2022). Using corpora to support UK school students. BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG. 

Jones, M., and Deignan, A. (2022). The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. Invited talk, Leicester, UK

Jones, M., and Deignan, A. (2021). The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. ResearchED National Conference 2021, London, UK. 4 September 2022.

Deignan, A., and Jones, M. (2021). Twilight session: Linguistic challenges of transition. [online]

Deignan, A. (2020). Using corpus linguistics to examine the linguistic challenge of starting high school. Invited talk, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Deignan, A. (2019). Linguistic challenge of the transition. Learning School Leadership event. Leeds, UK.

Candarli, D., Love, R., and Deignan, A. (2019). Rhetorical variation in teachers’ lesson presentations across Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group Annual Workshop. Lancaster University, UK.

Candarli, D., Chambers, G., Inglis, M., and Deignan, A. (2019). Academic language challenges at the transition: Triangulating classroom data and pupils' perceptions. BERA Annual Conference 2019, Manchester, UK. 10-12 September 2019.

Candarli, D., Love, R., and Deignan, A. (2019). Using corpora to explore the language challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. International Corpus Linguistics Conference, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 22-26 July 2019.

Love, R., and Deignan, A. (2018). The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school: Using the BNC2014 in applied linguistics research. British National Corpus/Thai National Corpus Symposium. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. September 2018.

Inglis, M., Deignan, A. (2023) The change in science language as a result of the transition from primary to secondary school: BERA. [Blog post]

EEF podcast: Vocabulary and Language (2023).[podcast]

Deignan, A., Jones, M. (2023). New words, new meanings. [Blog post]

Jones, M. (2022). Changing vocabulary between primary and secondary school. [Blog post]

Chambers, G. (2020). Linguistic encounters: What year 7 students say about ‘difficult words’. [Blog post]

Jones, M. (2020). The linguistic challenges of the transition. [Blog post]