Dr James Corbet

As a Teaching Fellow, James teaches on a variety of linguistics and applied linguistics modules at undergraduate and postgraduate taught level. He also advises student dissertations in linguistics and applied linguistics.

James also suppports education within the department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics as one of the departmental Academic Integrity Officers, and as the Study Abroad coordinator for English language and linguistics students.

In 2023/2024, he will be part of the teaching team on the following modules:

• LANG1017 Academic Skills for Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
• LING1001 Elements of Linguistics
• LING2002 Psycholinguistics
• LING3001 Second Language Acquisition
• LING6005 Second Language Learning
• LING6017 Research Skills
• LING6066 Analysing Language for ELT/TESOL
• SPAN2010 Exploring Spanish Linguistics

James completed undergraduate studies in French and Spanish with Linguistics, before working as an English teacher in France. James then completed a Masters in Applied Linguistics and PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism at the University of Southampton, finishing in 2021. James then worked as a Research Assistant on the Vulnerable Native Grammars project until 2022, when he was appointed as a Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition at Newcastle University, before returning to Southampton as a Teaching Fellow in Languages, Culture and Linguistics in 2023.

James is an active member of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research and convenes the Language Acquisition, Variation and Cognition reading group in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. James is also an external member of the Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development research group in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. James is a consultant Research Associate in the Department of Modern Languages at Birmingham University.