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Christopher Strelluf presented two papers at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held in Milan in June 2026.

The presentations explored regional and social variation in the history of English, examining both nineteenth-century American English and the historical development of English in Coventry, England. The conference travel was supported by SELCS conference travel funding.

The papers were:

• Strelluf, C. & Gordon, M. J. Regional variation in 19th-century Missouri English.
• Strelluf, C. & Asprey, E. 鈥淎n accent exceedingly rare鈥�: The historical emergence of a sociolinguistically 鈥渓iminal鈥� English in Coventry, England.

Christopher Strelluf, Xinran Gao, Sophie Frankpitt, Cagla Karatepe, Ayman Alrajhi, and Holly Taylor have published a new article examining lifespan language change and stability in the vowel system of Donald Trump, a lifelong speaker of New York City English.

Drawing on speech data spanning five decades, the study explores changes in Trump's production of the THOUGHT vowel, providing insights into patterns of linguistic change and stability across the lifespan. The research emerged from the Sociophonetics Reading Group in Applied Linguistics and was supported by Applied Linguistics research activity funding.

The article, published in American Speech, is titled:

Strelluf, C., Gao, X., Frankpitt, S., Karatepe, C., Alrajhi, A., & Taylor, H. (2026). Donald Trump Has Lowered thought for Five Decades: Lifespan Language Change and Stability in New York City English Vowels. American Speech, 101(3), 277–307.

Jason Anderson has published an article exploring the relationship between project-based learning and task-based language teaching.

The article examines the continuities and differences between these two approaches to language education and considers how they may be integrated to support effective language learning and teaching.

The article, published in Educational Linguistics, is titled:

Anderson, J. (2026). Project-based learning and task-based language teaching: continuities, differences and the potential for integration. Educational Linguistics (Advance Online Publication).

Suji Ko and Troy McConachy have published a new article examining how intercultural learning is supported in two English Conversation textbooks used in Korean high schools.

The study analyses the cultural representations presented in the textbooks, alongside the activities they include, to explore how they may support students in developing intercultural understanding and awareness.

The article, published in Language, Culture and Curriculum, is titled:

Ko, S., & McConachy, T. (2026). Examining intercultural learning in Korean high school 鈥楨nglish Conversation鈥� textbooks: The role of cultural representations and textbook activities. Language, Culture and Curriculum.

Jones, C., Emmerson, S., Guerin, C., Rixon, L., Magulike, C., Rowntree, R., Haque, A., & Palikara, O. (forthcoming). Promoting the participation of part-time PGR students through a co-produced writing retreat. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

This article stems from a systematic literature review conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of 11 researchers who are part of the :

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