Areas of expertise
The RCLC conducts high quality and high impact research and consultancy, with an emphasis on the application of knowledge in collaboration with government, industry, commerce, the professions and community groups.
The research at the RCLC is generally interested in language and culture, and languages and cultures, particularly in interaction with social and professional life. We have five main areas of focus, within which much of our research is carried out:
- languages and cultures in education
- linguistic diversity in international education
- language and culture in the professions
- social and political contexts of languages and cultures
- language structures and use
As well as broad research interests in a wide range of languages and cultures and their interactions, the researchers at the RCLC have specific expertise in:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
The researchers of the RCLC have diverse backgrounds, with training in general and theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, educational linguistics, languages education at all levels, and more broadly in education.