総合政策学部 総合政策学部英語常勤講師

Vocabulary Acquisition/ Psycholinguistics/ Materials Development

My main area of interest is vocabulary acquisition. My Master's dissertation was about collocation, which is the way that words group together in their normal use. In particular, I am interested in how a learner's native language affects their acquisition of collocational competence in a second language. I am also interested in finding the most effective ways to teach collocation in the language classroom.

In addition to researching vocabulary I am also interested in psycholinguistics; specifically semantic priming. This is where words are recognised faster if they are preceded by a semantically related word. My research involves trying to promote faster recognition of words in second language learners.

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