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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
99
Citations
71509
World Ranking
99
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ken Hyland is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the Arts and Humanities, with a significant focus on subfields such as Literature and Literary Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Language and Linguistics, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The researcher has contributed to multiple topics within language and education, including:

  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Ken Hyland has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Journal of English for Academic Purposes
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Applied Linguistics
  • International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Recent papers include:

  • "Fostering student engagement with feedback: An integrated approach" (2021) in Assessing Writing
  • "A bibliometric study of EAP research: Who is doing what, where and when?" (2020) in Journal of English for Academic Purposes
  • "Delivering relevance: The emergence of ESP as a discipline" (2021) in English for Specific Purposes
  • "'I believe the findings are fascinating': Stance in three-minute theses" (2021) in Journal of English for Academic Purposes
  • "Titles in research articles" (2022) in Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Ken Hyland has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Feng Jiang, Hang Zou, Zhang Yan, Zhe Zhang, and Iga Maria Lehman.

The researcher has also published books, including one with Bloomsbury Publishing plc titled Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2023).

Best Publications

  • Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing

    Ken Hyland

  • Second Language Writing

    Ken Hyland

  • Hedging in scientific research articles

    Ken Hyland

  • Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse

    Ken Hyland

  • Second Language Writing

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  • Teaching and Researching Writing

    Ken Hyland

  • English for Academic Purposes: An advanced resource book

    Ken Hyland

  • Metadiscourse in academic writing: A reappraisal

    Ken Hyland;Polly Tse

  • Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing

    Ken Hyland

  • Genre pedagogy: Language, literacy and L2 writing instruction

    Ken Hyland

  • Genre-Based Pedagogies: A Social Response to Process.

    Ken Hyland

  • As can be seen: Lexical bundles and disciplinary variation

    Ken Hyland

  • Authority and invisibility: authorial identity in academic writing

    Ken Hyland

  • Feedback on second language students' writing

    Ken Hyland;Fiona Hyland

  • Genre and Second Language Writing

    Ken Hyland

  • PERSUASION AND CONTEXT: THE PRAGMATICS OF ACADEMIC METADISCOURSE

    Ken Hyland

  • Academic Discourse: English In A Global Context

    Ken Hyland

  • Writing Without Conviction? Hedging in Science Research Articles

    Ken Hyland

  • Academic Attribution: Citation and the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge.

    Ken Hyland

  • Bloomsbury companion to discourse analysis

    Ken Hyland;Brian Paltridge

  • HUMBLE SERVANTS OF THE DISCIPLINE? SELF-MENTION IN RESEARCH ARTICLES

    Ken Hyland

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Paul Kei Matsuda
Paul Kei Matsuda Arizona State University
Mark Warschauer
Mark Warschauer University of California, Irvine

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