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Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr James Corbet PhD

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition and bilingualism
  • Heritage language acquisition
  • Variation and acquisition of variation in Romance languages

Email: james.corbet@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr James Turner PhD

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • L2 speech learning
  • Phonetics (production and perception)
  • Phonetic drift and L1 attrition

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: james.turner@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: k.zotzmann@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Kate Borthwick MA (Hons), MA, PHD, FHEA, SCMALT

Professorial Fellow of Enterprise

Research interests

  • Massive Open Online Courses (and Language MOOCs)
  • Open educational practices and resources
  • Blended learning for languages

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: k.borthwick@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Laura Dominguez

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Major Areas of research: formal second language acquisition, bi/multilingualism and native language attrition.
  • Other Areas of Interest: heritage language acquisition, linguistic interfaces, learner corpora, task design in L2 research, L3 acquisition, Spanish linguistics, syntactic variation and language contact.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.dominguez@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Marion Demossier

Professor of French & European Studies

Research interests

  • climate ethnography and environment and climate change
  • French and European politics
  • Republicanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.demossier@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Matthew Hunt

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Variation
  • Perception

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.kranert@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Özgür Şahan PhD

Teaching Fell in Applied Linguistics/ELT

Research interests

  • Language performance assessment
  • Second language writing
  • English as a medium of instruction

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: o.sahan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF