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Barbara Mayor is lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communications at The Open University.

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Language analysis: A story in every word Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Barbara Mayor (The Open University)

28 July 2005

Barbara Mayor explores the different words we use in different parts of the country, and gives advice on how to get involved in the 'Voices'...  Read more : Language analysis: A story in every word

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An example language survey interview Featuring: audio, The Open University

By Barbara Mayor (The Open University)

28 July 2005

Hear what an example interview sounds like and read the transcripts.  Read more : An example language survey interview

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Example Interview TranscriptsCopyrighted Image The Open University / Karen Parker

By Barbara Mayor (The Open University)

28 July 2005

Read the transcripts of the example interviews  Read more : Example Interview Transcripts

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Download your language survey kit Featuring: activity, The Open University / University of Leeds

By Barbara Mayor (The Open University)

08 July 2005

Interested in carrying out your own survey into language? Here's the kit you'll need.  Read more : Download your language survey kit

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Mayor, Barbara (2010). Perspectives on children learning English: from structures to practices. In: Maybin, Janet and Swann, Joan eds. The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies. The Routledge Companion series. Abingdon, Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge, pp. 218–231.

Mayor, Barbara; Hewings, Ann; North, Sarah; Swann, Joan and Coffin, Caroline (2007). A Linguistic analysis of Chinese and Greek L1 scripts for IELTS Academic Writing Task 2. In: Taylor, Linda and Falvey, Peter eds. IELTS Collected Papers: Research in speaking and writing assessment. Studies in language testing (19). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 250–315.

Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. (2007). Learning English. London, UK: Routledge.

Mayor, Barbara (2007). English in the repertoire. In: Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. Learning English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 43–72.

Monaghan, Frank and Mayor, Barbara (2007). English in the curriculum. In: Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. Learning English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 151–176.

Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Mayor, Barbara (2007). Academic writing in English. In: Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. Learning English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 227–252.

Mayor, Barbara M. (2006). Dialogic and hortatory features in the writing of Chinese candidates for the IELTS Test. Journal of Language, Culture and Curriculum, 19(1), pp. 104–121.

Coffin, Caroline and Mayor, Barbara (2004). Texturing writer and reader reference in novice academic writing. In: Banks, David ed. Text and texture. Paris, France: l'Harmattan.

Mayor, Barbara and Swann, Joan (2001). English language and global teaching. In: Lea, Mary R. and Nicoll, Kathy eds. Distributed learning: social and cultural approaches to practice. UK: Routledge.

Mayor, Barbara (1996). English in the repertoire. In: Mercer, Neil and Swann, Joan eds. Learning English: Development and Diversity. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 41–71.

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Barbara Mayor is lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communications at The Open University. She currently chairs one of The Open University’s most popular courses, 'The English Language: past, present and future' (U210). Over the years Barbara has also acted as consultant to various related BBC programmes, including the Radio 4 series, Word4Word.
Barbara is particularly interested in the linguistic behaviour of bilingual speakers, especially adolescents, and in cross-cultural differences in the use of English as a global language of education.

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