معرفی
Rachel Allan is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Mid-Sweden University's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, specializing in English Linguistics. With a PhD from University College Dublin, her work bridges corpus linguistics and language education through innovative projects like the Digital Database of National Tests.
- Academic title: Associate Professor
- Professional title: Senior Lecturer
- Location: Sundsvall Campus
Research Focus:
Her research emphasizes corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching, covering:
- Vocabulary acquisition through graded corpora
- Lexical bundles analysis in business and educational contexts
- Historical evolution of ELT materials
- Assessment methodologies for national English tests
- Implementation of digital tools in language pedagogy
- English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) patterns
Projects:
Currently leads the Collaboration for Advancing Classroom Teaching (CoACT) and maintains the Digital Database of National Tests. Her work traces pedagogical continuity from early 20th-century US immigration materials to modern Swedish testing frameworks.
Publications:
Recent work (2023) explores normalizing corpus use for school teachers and data-driven learning frameworks. Earlier studies (2016-2018) examined lexical bundles in business contexts and historical ELT corpora.
