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Hilary Nesi’s research primarily concerns the discourse of English for academic purposes, and the design and use of dictionaries and reference tools. She was principal investigator for the AHRB-funded project to create the BASE corpus of British Academic Spoken English (2001-2005), and for the ESRC-funded project to create the BAWE corpus of British Academic Written English (2004-2007). Hilary has also collected and analysed the business correspondence component of the JISC-funded BT e-Archive, and was principal investigator for the AHRC Research Networking project ‘Digitising experiences of migration: the development of interconnected letter collections’.
Hilary has developed materials for the study of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as principal investigator for the project to produce academic writing materials for the British Council ‘Learn English’ website, and as Chief Academic Advisor for the EASE EAP speaking and listening series. Her research monographs and articles include The Use and Abuse of EFL Dictionaries and Genres across the Disciplines: Student writing in higher education, co-authored with Sheena Gardner.
Vision Statement:
Although communication is at the heart of academic endeavour, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge of how this communication is achieved in different academic contexts. Through my research I want to contribute to our knowledge of the nature of academic discourse, and how it varies across genres, disciplines, levels of study and geographical regions. I also want to find good ways of presenting and explaining this information to scholars and fellow-teachers, so that it can be applied most effectively, at a time when the use of English as an academic lingua franca is rapidly on the rise.
Although communication is at the heart of academic endeavour, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge of how this communication is achieved in different academic contexts. Through my research I want to contribute to our knowledge of the nature of academic discourse, and how it varies across genres, disciplines, levels of study and geographical regions. I also want to find good ways of presenting and explaining this information to scholars and fellow-teachers, so that it can be applied most effectively, at a time when the use of English as an academic lingua franca is rapidly on the rise.
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Postgraduate Certificate, University of London
Award Date: 31 Jul 1995
Doctorate, Swansea University
Award Date: 1 Jul 1994
MSc, Aston University
Award Date: 30 Sep 1984
Postgraduate Certificate, University of Hull
Award Date: 30 Sep 1976
Degree, University of Leicester
Award Date: 30 Jun 1975
Member of the British Council Academic Writing for Publication freelance trainer team
1 Jul 2019 → …Member of the expert panel, A.S.Hornby Dictionary Research Awards (British Council and Hornby Trust)
1 Sep 2018 → …External examiner, the ESP component of the English language programme, University of Hong Kong
1 Sep 2013 → 1 Sep 2017External Assessor for the Open University course ‘Exploring English grammar in the real world
1 Jan 2013 → 1 Aug 2013External Examiner English Grammar in Context, the Open University
1 Sep 2012 → 1 Sep 2017BAAL representative to the HEA LLAS Subject Centre Advisory Board
12 Sep 2010 → 12 Sep 2012Senior member of the ESRC Peer Review College
1 Sep 2010 → …BAAL Executive Committee, ordinary member
1 Sep 2009 → 1 Sep 2014External Assessor for the Open University course in English for Academic Purposes
1 Sep 2009 → 1 Sep 2010External examiner, MA in English Language Teaching, University of Limerick
1 Sep 2009 → 1 Sep 2013External examiner, MA in Applied Linguistics; Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication, Applied Corpus Linguistics; Special Applications of Linguistics; Language and Lexicography, and MPhilB Corpus Linguistics. University of Birmingham
1 Sep 2008 → 1 Sep 2012MA TESOL Institute of Education, University of London
1 Sep 2007 → 1 Sep 2011BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Meetings Secretary
1 Sep 2006 → 1 Sep 2018Member of the BALEAP Publications committee
1 Mar 2003 → 1 Mar 2007Strand Co-ordinator, AILA Scientific Commission on Lexicology and Lexicography
1 Apr 2002 → 1 Apr 2005Member of the advisory panel for Macmillan Dictionaries
1 Sep 2000 → 12 Sep 2010External examiner, MA in Language Teaching and Learning, University of Liverpool
1 Sep 2000 → 1 Sep 2006External examiner, MA in Language Teaching and Learning, University of Liverpool
1 Sep 1998 → 1 Sep 2002BALEAP Accreditation Scheme Assessor
30 Mar 1993 → 30 Mar 2005Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
Hilary Nesi (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Yan Yan Yeung (Speaker) & Hilary Nesi (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Hilary Nesi (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Hilary Nesi (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Hilary Nesi (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk