Second Language Learning and Teaching

This project investigates whether language instruction should play to learners’ strengths or compensate for their weaknesses.

This project investigates whether the learning of Esperanto can enhance a child’s metalinguistic awareness and their subsequent learning of other languages in primary school.

This project examines the role of explicit knowledge in instructed adult L2 learning by means of a longitudinal case study.

This project investigates the complex cognitive activity underpinning the planning, formulation, transcription, reading and revising processes involved in the production of academic text in a second language.

This project aims to develop and empirically test an immersive, virtual space for learning selected prepositions in L2 English. 

Learn more about this research from multiple projects by Dr Christina Gkonou.

This project promotes research relating to the acquisition of French as a foreign language by providing access to a growing database of French learner language oral corpora.

This ESRC-funded study compared how children aged 5, 7 and 11 learn French in the classroom.

This project investigates innovative teaching materials and tasks that have been specifically developed to help with the development of adult L2 learners' tense-aspect system.

This ESRC-funded project examines our understanding of how a central component of a second language (L2) is learned – the tense/aspect system.