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Applied Linguistics

Staff:

• Professor Lorna Carson
• Dr Gessica De Angelis
• Dr John Harris
• Dr Jeffrey Kallen
• Professor David Little (Fellow Emeritus)
• Dr Breffni O'Rourke
• Professor Pádraig Ó Riagáin (Research Associate)
• Professor David Singleton

Research Areas

• Language transfer
• Learner autonomy and self-access
• Learner strategies and communicative strategies
• Media and technologies in language-learning
• Metacognition and metalinguistic awareness
• Pragmatics and language-learning
• Syllabus, learning materials, and pedagogical grammar
• The age factor in language acquisition
• The L2 mental lexicon
• Lexicology
• Child language acquisition
• Second Language Acquisition
• Third Language Acquisition
• Bilingualism / Multilingualism
• Language policy and language planning
• Language variation and change
• Language and immigration