EDR for Researchers
Shape the Future of English for Dispute Resolution
As an emerging multidisciplinary field, English for Dispute Resolution (EDR) offers a wealth of research opportunities for linguists, TESOL professionals, graduate students, cross-cultural communications experts and dispute resolution professionals.
Research Areas
Language
Explore the relationships between language and dispute resolution. Create a new dispute resolution corpus of dispute resolution for EDR students and professionals. Focus on communication styles for dispute prevention or resolution. What happens when non-native speakers of English negotiate with each other in English or with native English speakers? How can we prepare them to negotiate more skillfully in English?
Culture
Explore the culture of dispute resolution in various legal systems or study cross-cultural negotiation or mediation. Research apologies and ethics in cross-cultural dispute prevention and resolution. Consider whether there can or should be “global ADR” that would apply across cultures and legal systems. Study the rules that apply to international student negotiators and mediators in international ADR competitions and how these rules may cause cultural or ethical challenges for international participants.
Pedagogy
Conduct your own classroom research or design a quantitative or qualitative research project to evaluate EDR teaching methods. Use your research to develop new materials and methods to prepare non-native English speakers to negotiate and mediate in English with native and non-native English speakers.
Sociolinguistics
Research variations in cross-cultural negotiations or mediations conducted in English based on culture, profession, gender, age, status or other factors. Focus on discourse analysis, communication styles or other topics of interest.
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