Clare Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3802353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3962-7903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Second language fluency across contexts
Article Second language fluency across contexts: introduction to the special issue was published on September 23, 2025 in the journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (volume 0, issue 0)
Emotionally entwined narratives
This paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of “emotional community” in the context of our research into histories of learning disability. Emotional communities are places where people feel, express and make sense of emotions. They help us to understand that emotions are something we experience socially and not just individually. The paper is presented in the form of a conversation between many researchers. This is what we mean by “polyp…
How does background knowledge affect second language reading? An eye movement study
There is broad consensus that a reader's background knowledge on a reading topic affects both their reading processes and comprehension in their first language and also in a second language. However, it is unclear whether a reader's background knowledge specifically affects reading comprehension accuracy and reading rate. The extent to which background knowledge facilitates second language reading when compared to a reader's L2 linguistic knowled…
“Now I hear what you say” - How short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies
The Goldfields’ Sabbath
The historiography of the Sabbath reflects closely the concerns of its Sabbatarian subjects: the rise or fall in public piety and the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of evangelical moral reform and social control. In this article we step away from the question of how religious or secular goldfields society was, and instead, observe how Sunday functioned on the goldfields. In doing so we eschew a dominant narrative of religious history — secularis…
Syntax and Acquisition
Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition
Mind Matters in SLA
I think that's what he's doing”
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid: Women Behind the Bar in New Zealand, 1830–1976." Australian Historical Studies, 45(3), pp. 458–459
An Investigation of Working Memory Effects on Oral Grammatical Accuracy and Fluency in Producing Questions in English
This article addresses the question of how far working memory may affect second language (L2) learners' improvement in spoken language during a period of immersion. Research is presented testing the hypothesis that individual differences in working memory ( WM ) capacity are associated with individual variation in improvements in oral production of questions in English. Thirty‐two Chinese adult speakers of English were tested, before and after a …
An Indelible Stain’
This article is the first in our new series, in which scholars comment on the possibilities for new research and interpretations presented by new and significant archival acquisitions in the cultural institutions of Australia. In this inaugural article, Clare Wright reviews the diary of Samuel Lazarus, recently acquired by the State Library of Victoria. The digitised version can be accessed at http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/collections/treasures/slaza…
New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’
The Eureka Stockade has long been portrayed as a hyper-masculine episode in Australian history, because of the myth of the goldfields as an exclusively male domain and the tangible outcome of the Ballarat uprising of 1854—manhood suffrage. Using three interpretive cases studies of women who were politically active on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, this article provides new empirical and conceptual ways of understanding both women's role in Aust…
Doing the beans’
(2003). ‘Doing the beans’: Women, drinking and community in the ladies’ lounge. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 5-16
Of public houses and private lives female hotelkeepers as domestic entrepreneurs∗
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, women played a key role in the control and management of the Australian hotel industry. Their importance as publicans has often been overlooked by historians of drinking culture and the liquor trade, due to the representation of the pub as a male domain to which women were either socially peripheral or actively opposed. Rather, the complex spatial arrangements of the public house, where domestic…
Experiences of Aids-related bereavement among gay men
Relatively little high-quality, qualitative research has been conducted on experiences of AIDS-related bereavement among gay men. Sixteen gay men from London and Surrey who had lost at least one close gay friend or partner to AIDS in the past 5 years were interviewed about their experiences. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Although there were areas of overlap, participants' AIDS-related bereavement emerged as qualitatively di…
Using the Counselling Interview To Collect Research Data on Sensitive Topics
In interview-based research on sensitive health-related topics, the interview may restimulate painful memories among respondents who may become distressed. It is ethically questionable for researchers to address sensitive issues without being equipped to deal with resultant distress. An effective way of addressing this problem is for interviewers to foster counselling attributes and use counselling skills within research interviews. This fulfils …
Using the Counselling Interview To Collect Research Data on Sensitive Topics
In interview-based research on sensitive health-related topics, the interview may restimulate painful memories among respondents who may become distressed. It is ethically questionable for researchers to address sensitive issues without being equipped to deal with resultant distress. An effective way of addressing this problem is for interviewers to foster counselling attributes and use counselling skills within research interviews. This fulfils …
Doing the beans’
(2003). ‘Doing the beans’: Women, drinking and community in the ladies’ lounge. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 5-16
Of public houses and private lives female hotelkeepers as domestic entrepreneurs∗
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, women played a key role in the control and management of the Australian hotel industry. Their importance as publicans has often been overlooked by historians of drinking culture and the liquor trade, due to the representation of the pub as a male domain to which women were either socially peripheral or actively opposed. Rather, the complex spatial arrangements of the public house, where domestic…
The Goldfields’ Sabbath
The historiography of the Sabbath reflects closely the concerns of its Sabbatarian subjects: the rise or fall in public piety and the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of evangelical moral reform and social control. In this article we step away from the question of how religious or secular goldfields society was, and instead, observe how Sunday functioned on the goldfields. In doing so we eschew a dominant narrative of religious history — secularis…
I think that's what he's doing”
An Investigation of Working Memory Effects on Oral Grammatical Accuracy and Fluency in Producing Questions in English
This article addresses the question of how far working memory may affect second language (L2) learners' improvement in spoken language during a period of immersion. Research is presented testing the hypothesis that individual differences in working memory ( WM ) capacity are associated with individual variation in improvements in oral production of questions in English. Thirty‐two Chinese adult speakers of English were tested, before and after a …
New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’
The Eureka Stockade has long been portrayed as a hyper-masculine episode in Australian history, because of the myth of the goldfields as an exclusively male domain and the tangible outcome of the Ballarat uprising of 1854—manhood suffrage. Using three interpretive cases studies of women who were politically active on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, this article provides new empirical and conceptual ways of understanding both women's role in Aust…
Experiences of Aids-related bereavement among gay men
Relatively little high-quality, qualitative research has been conducted on experiences of AIDS-related bereavement among gay men. Sixteen gay men from London and Surrey who had lost at least one close gay friend or partner to AIDS in the past 5 years were interviewed about their experiences. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Although there were areas of overlap, participants' AIDS-related bereavement emerged as qualitatively di…
Using the Counselling Interview To Collect Research Data on Sensitive Topics
In interview-based research on sensitive health-related topics, the interview may restimulate painful memories among respondents who may become distressed. It is ethically questionable for researchers to address sensitive issues without being equipped to deal with resultant distress. An effective way of addressing this problem is for interviewers to foster counselling attributes and use counselling skills within research interviews. This fulfils …
Of public houses and private lives female hotelkeepers as domestic entrepreneurs∗
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, women played a key role in the control and management of the Australian hotel industry. Their importance as publicans has often been overlooked by historians of drinking culture and the liquor trade, due to the representation of the pub as a male domain to which women were either socially peripheral or actively opposed. Rather, the complex spatial arrangements of the public house, where domestic…
Doing the beans’
(2003). ‘Doing the beans’: Women, drinking and community in the ladies’ lounge. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 5-16
New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’
The Eureka Stockade has long been portrayed as a hyper-masculine episode in Australian history, because of the myth of the goldfields as an exclusively male domain and the tangible outcome of the Ballarat uprising of 1854—manhood suffrage. Using three interpretive cases studies of women who were politically active on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, this article provides new empirical and conceptual ways of understanding both women's role in Aust…
An Indelible Stain’
This article is the first in our new series, in which scholars comment on the possibilities for new research and interpretations presented by new and significant archival acquisitions in the cultural institutions of Australia. In this inaugural article, Clare Wright reviews the diary of Samuel Lazarus, recently acquired by the State Library of Victoria. The digitised version can be accessed at http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/collections/treasures/slaza…
An Investigation of Working Memory Effects on Oral Grammatical Accuracy and Fluency in Producing Questions in English
This article addresses the question of how far working memory may affect second language (L2) learners' improvement in spoken language during a period of immersion. Research is presented testing the hypothesis that individual differences in working memory ( WM ) capacity are associated with individual variation in improvements in oral production of questions in English. Thirty‐two Chinese adult speakers of English were tested, before and after a …
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid: Women Behind the Bar in New Zealand, 1830–1976." Australian Historical Studies, 45(3), pp. 458–459
I think that's what he's doing”
Syntax and Acquisition
Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition
Mind Matters in SLA
The Goldfields’ Sabbath
The historiography of the Sabbath reflects closely the concerns of its Sabbatarian subjects: the rise or fall in public piety and the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of evangelical moral reform and social control. In this article we step away from the question of how religious or secular goldfields society was, and instead, observe how Sunday functioned on the goldfields. In doing so we eschew a dominant narrative of religious history — secularis…
“Now I hear what you say” - How short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies
How does background knowledge affect second language reading? An eye movement study
There is broad consensus that a reader's background knowledge on a reading topic affects both their reading processes and comprehension in their first language and also in a second language. However, it is unclear whether a reader's background knowledge specifically affects reading comprehension accuracy and reading rate. The extent to which background knowledge facilitates second language reading when compared to a reader's L2 linguistic knowled…
Emotionally entwined narratives
This paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of “emotional community” in the context of our research into histories of learning disability. Emotional communities are places where people feel, express and make sense of emotions. They help us to understand that emotions are something we experience socially and not just individually. The paper is presented in the form of a conversation between many researchers. This is what we mean by “polyp…
Second language fluency across contexts
Article Second language fluency across contexts: introduction to the special issue was published on September 23, 2025 in the journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (volume 0, issue 0)
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