Dr Viola Wiegand

Lecturer in Education (TESOL)

Education Stirling

Dr Viola Wiegand

Contact details

About me

I am a Lecturer of Education (TESOL) and coordinate the MSc TESOL (Online) programme. I teach across our online and on-campus TESOL Master's programmes and carry out research in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis.

I joined Stirling in October 2022 from the University of Birmingham, where I was based for several years and most recently coordinated the development of a new TESOL microcredential. Previously, I was part of the team developing the CLiC Web App, a corpus tool for studying patterns in literary texts at Birmingham’s Centre for Corpus Research. I have also worked at the University of Bath’s Department of Education, as part of their TESOL team.

My research interests span applied linguistics, corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and discourse analysis. My work has focused on analysing patterns in surveillance discourses through corpus linguistic methods. I am also interested in empowerment and creativity in educational and wider discourses, as well as applications of corpora and data-driven learning. While my research has been interdisciplinary, I have a strong research background in corpus linguistics.

External Examiners and Validations

External Examiner
I am the External Examiner for the distance programmes "TESOL with Corpus Linguistics" (distance learning; PT), "TESOL with Language Testing" (distance learning; PT), and "PGCert in TESOL" (distance learning; PT) at Lancaster University.

Outputs (23)

Presentation / Talk

Concordancing the signage of surveillant landscapes

Wiegand V (2025) Concordancing the signage of surveillant landscapes. Symposium: Reading Concordances in the 21st Century, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 20.03.2025-21.03.2025. https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/events/rc21-viola-wiegand-concordancing-the-signage-of-surveillant-landscapes/

Other

Feeding insights from corpora into English and/or EAP classrooms. Contribution to the panel “Research-informed English Language Teaching in Scotland: An International Perspective” by the Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL)

Wiegand V (2023) Feeding insights from corpora into English and/or EAP classrooms. Contribution to the panel “Research-informed English Language Teaching in Scotland: An International Perspective” by the Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL). St. Andrews EAP Conference 2023, St Andrews, 04.03.2023.

Book Chapter

Literary stylistics

Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2020) Literary stylistics. In: Adolphs S & Knight D (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. Abingdon, Oxon, p. 306–327. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-English-Language-and-Digital-Humanities/Adolphs-Knight/p/book/9781032569734

Book Chapter

Stylistics and the Digital Humanities

Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2020) Stylistics and the Digital Humanities. In: Conrad S, Hartig A & Santelmann L (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108658089.015

Article

Digital methods for the English classroom

Mahlberg M, Wiegand V, Hobday S & Child F (2019) Digital methods for the English classroom. Impact, 7. https://my.chartered.college/impact_article/digital-methods-for-the-english-classroom/

Book Chapter

Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations

Mahlberg M & Wiegand V (2018) Corpus Stylistics, Norms and Comparisons: Studying Speech in Great Expectations. In: Page R, Busse B & Nørgaard N (eds.) Rethinking Language Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan. Abingdon, Oxon. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351183222-8/corpus-stylistics-norms-comparisons-michaela-mahlberg-viola-wiegand

Teaching

Coordinator of the MSc TESOL (Online)

Module convenor of the following modules: TESP001 & TESPD02 "Principles of Language Learning and Teaching", TESP021 "Approaches in Discourse Analysis", TESPD03 "Discourse Analysis", TESPP50 "Dissertation", TESPP51 "CALL Portfolio"

Part of the teaching teams for the following modules: TESP002 "TESOL Methodology", TESP012 & TESPD04 "Technology in Language Education", TESP019 & TESPD07 "Research Methods in TESOL", TESP020 "Language, Discourse and Society"

Supervisor of dissertations on the MSc TESOL, MSc TESOL (Online), MSc English Language Teaching and Management, and PhD theses, especially on the PhD TESOL (Research) programme.

Research centres/groups