Centre for Childhood Studies

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Department of Language and Linguistics

Reader (R), Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Psychology of foreign language learning and teaching; Language teacher emotions, emotional labour and emotional capital; Language teacher agency and identity; Affective and meta-affective strategies for language learning; Language teacher education; Social and emotional learning; Language learner and teacher wellbeing
Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Sociophonetics; Regional accents/dialects; Variation in language acquisition
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Language variability: accents (children), bilingualism (children); Semantic processing (children); Speech perception (infants, children, adults)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: neurolinguistics; laboratory phonology; morphological processing; cognitive science; history of linguistic theory; Signed languages (ASL, BSL); deaf language processing; language acquisition; cochlear implants
Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Second language (L2) learning from a usage-based (emergentist, cognitive-functional) perspective; Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Individual learner differences in L2 learning, especially language learning aptitude, working memory and cognitive/learning style

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