Dr Michael Daller

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language

MA (equiv., Wuppertal), PGCE (Amsterdam), PhD (Utrecht), Dip Stat (Open)

I am the Award Leader for our Masters in European Business. The Masters Programme in European Business won the Languages for Export Prize for the fourth time in 2005.

As Research Degrees Coordinator I welcome enquiries about our PhD programme in Linguistics.

Please contact me for more information about these programmes:Michael.daller@uwe.ac.uk

Research

My research interests are:

• Modelling and assessing vocabulary knowledge
• Language proficiency in English as a Foreign Language
• Bilingualism
• Intercultural Business Communication

Teaching

The majority of my teaching is in supervising PhD and MA students in Applied Linguistics and European Business. I teach on the following modules at post-graduate level:

• European Business Culture
• Intercultural Business Communication
• Research Methods in Linguistics (Distance learning)
• Research Portfolio in Linguistics (Distance learning)

and on the following modules at undergraduate level:

• English in the Modern World (my part: The history of English up to 1066)
• Research Methods in Linguistics
• The History of Linguistic Thought

Postgraduate supervision

At present, I am the Director of Studies for three PhD students. The research topics of these students are:

• Changes in Lexical Richness in Second Language English Academic Essays
• Lexical Richness of Greek-Cypriot EFL Learners
• Acquisition of Phrasal Verbs by EFL Intermediate and Advanced Learners
• I am co-supervisor of two further PhD projects:
• Chinese EFL Learners’ Use of Chinese and English Motion Verbs
• Lexical Accommodation in Oral Interviews of Chinese EFL Learners    
• Furthermore, I have been supervising more than 20 MA dissertations in European Business.

Other professional roles

I am Associate Editor of:

The Linguistics Journal

Journal of English as an International Language

and a reviewer for several other journals in Applied Linguistics/ Language Testing. I am also a member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics.

I am a member of the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship College.

Recent publications

Books/ Special Issues

Richards B., Daller M.H., Malvern D, Meara P., Milton, J. and Treffers-Daller, J. (eds.). (2009) Vocabulary studies in first and second language acquisition: The Interface Between Theory and Application. Palgrave.

Daller, H., Milton J. and Treffers-Daller, J. (Eds.) (2007). Testing and Modelling Lexical Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ( ISBN: 3-11-013837-9)

Daller, H. (1999) Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit. Der Sprachstand türkischer Rückkehrer aus Deutschland. Spracherwerb und Sprachverlust (Migration and Multilingualism. The Language Proficiency of Turkish Returnees from Germany).  Frankfurt: Peter Lang  (ISBN: 3-631-34559-3)

Articles in refereed journals

Daller, M.H., Treffers-Daller, J. and Furman, R. (accepted pending revision) Conceptual transfer in narratives by Turkish-German bilinguals: the description of motion events in Turkish and German. To appear in 2011 in Bilingualism, Language and Cognition (CUP). ISSN: 1366-7289.

Daller, M.H., Yıldız, C., de Jong, N., Kan, S. and Başbaĝi, R. (in preparation). Language dominance in Turkish German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structural different languages. To appear in Daller, M.H. (ed.). The measurement of bilingual proficiency. The International Journal of Bilingualism (special issue 2009/10).

Daller H. and Yıldız, C (2006). Globalisation, business communication and the persistence of local business cultures. The case of Turkey, Russia and Western Europe. Journal of Politeness Research Vol. 2, pp. 35 - 53.

Daller H. (2005). Was müssen DaF-Lerner können: Die Anforderungen der

Berufspraxis. (What skills do learners of German as a Foreign Language need? The requirements of placement companies). Info DaF, 32:6, pp. 573 – 582.

Daller H., van Hout, R. and Treffers-Daller, J. (2003). "Lexical richness in spontaneous speech of bilinguals." Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) Vol. 24: 2, pp. 197 - 222.

Daller, H. (2002). El Desarollo Del Bilingüismo: Aspectos Educacionales (Bilingual Development: Educational Aspects). In: Revista de Educación  Septiembre 2002.

Chapters in books

Daller, M. H. and Xue  J. (2009). English Proficiency and Academic Success: A Study of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education. In Richards B., Daller M.H., Malvern D, Meara P., Milton, J. and Treffers-Daller, J. (eds.) Vocabulary studies in first and second language acquisition: The Interface Between Theory and Application. Palgrave.

Daller, H. and David P. (2007). What is in a teacher's mind? The relation between teacher ratings of  EFL essays and different aspects of lexical richness. In: Daller, Milton, Treffers-Daller (eds.). Testing and Modelling Vocabulary Knowledge, Cambridge University Press.

Daller, H. and Huijuan Xue/ June Snow (2007). Lexical richness and the oral proficiency of Chinese EFL students. In: Daller, Milton, Treffers-Daller (eds.). Testing and Modelling Vocabulary Knowledge, Cambridge University Press.

Daller, H. and Phelan, D.  (2006). The C-test and TOEIC® as measures of students’

progress in intensive short courses in EFL. In Grotjahn, R. (ed.). The C-test. Theoretical basis and practical applications (Vol. 4). Frankfurt/ New York: Lang Verlag.

Daller, H. (2005).   Migration und bilinguale Sprachentwicklung. Türkische Rückkehrer aus Deutschland.(Migration and bilingual language development. Turkish returnees from Germany). In Hinnenkamp, V. and Meng, K. (eds.): Sprachgrenzen überspringen. Sprachliche Hybridität und polykulturelles Selbstverständnis (Vol 32 Schriften zur deutschen Sprache/ Institut fuer deutsche Sprache) . Tübingen: Narr, pp. 325 - 345.

Daller, H. , Treffers-Daller, J.,  Ünaldı-Ceylan, A. and Yıldız, C. (2002). The development of a Turkish C-Test. In Coleman, James A.; Grotjahn, Rüdiger and Raatz, Ulrich (eds.) University Language Testing and the C-Test. AKS-Verlag Bochum, pp. 187 - 199.

Conference proceedings (a selection)

Daller, H. (2004). This foreign homeland. Mennonite immigrants from Russia in Germany. In  Cohen, J., McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (Eds.). ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla

Daller, H. (2002)Globalisation and National Business Cultures. Intercultural Business Communication between Western Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Proceedings of the 5th annual cross-cultural conference. Leeds Metropolitan University, pp. 77 - 89.

Recent conference papers (last five years only)

Fluency and language dominance in bilinguals (Eurosla conference, University of Cork, 2 – 5 September 2009, paper will be given with Nivja de Jong at the colloquium on fluency, convener: Michael Daller).

Turkish immigrants in Europe: psycholinguistic aspects of bilingual proficiency (paper given at the AILA/ University of Essen, 24 – 29 August 2008)

Concept transfer in Turkish-German bilinguals ( Workshop on language contact, UWE, 9 – 11 July 200,  paper given with Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Reyhan Furman)                     

The interface between theory and learning in vocabulary acquisition (Eurosla conference, University of Newcastle, 11 – 14 September 2007, paper given with Jim Milton)

Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches for the measurement of lexical richness (Eurosla conference, University of Newcastle, 11 – 14 September 2007, paper given with Jeanine Treffers-Daller)

Vocabulary in academic English L2 writing of Arabic first language students – development and measurement (University of Swansea, 6/7 July 2007, ESRC seminar series Models and measures of vocabulary acquisition, paper given with John Turlik)

Convergence of language specific structures in narratives by bilinguals: the description of motion events in two languages (AAAL Annual Conference Costa Mesa/ California 21 - 24 April 2007)

English proficiency and academic success: A study of Chinese students in UK higher education (University of Reading, 21/22 September 2006, ESRC seminar series Models and measures of vocabulary acquisition, paper given with Huijuan Xue/ June Snow)

Investigating bilingual proficiency: a combination of psychometrical and qualitative approaches (Eurosla conference, Istanbul/ Antalya, 13 – 16 September 2006)

Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in research on bilingual proficiency (16th Sociolinguistic Symposium, Limerick, 5 – 8 July 2006, paper given with Jeanine Treffers-Daller)

The EFL proficiency of Chinese students as predictor for academic success (University of Southampton, "The International Learner:  Enhancing the student experience."  13th and 14th September 2006, paper given with Huijuan Xue/ June Snow)

Assessing bilingual proficiency in an immigrant setting (paper given at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 15 - 17 September 2005, University of Bristol)

Frequency list based measurements of lexical richness (paper given at the 15th Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group Network Conference, Swansea, 10/9/05)

Lexical richness and the EFL proficiency of Chinese students in the UK (paper given at the 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Madison/USA, 28/7/05)

The measurement of bilingual proficiency across structural different languages: the case of Turkish returnees from Germany (paper given at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, 22/3/05, paper given with Jeanine Treffers-Daller)

What is in a teacher's mind? The relation between teacher ratings of EFL essays and different aspects of lexical richness (workshop on vocabulary knowledge sponsored by the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) at UWE Bristol, 9/1/04, paper given with David Phelan)

Lexical richness and the oral proficiency of Chinese EFL students (workshop on vocabulary knowledge sponsored by BAAL at UWE Bristol, 9/1/04, paper given with Huijuan Xue/ June Snow)

Teaching the History of Linguistic Thought (discussion paper given at the Annual Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society, Jesus College Oxford, 14/9/04)