Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research

Our people

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

Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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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

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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

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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

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Dr Matthew Hunt

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Variation
  • Perception

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Özgür Şahan PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Patrick Stevenson PhD

Research interests

  • German sociolinguistics
  • Multilingualism
  • The politics of language
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Emeritus Professor Richard Kiely

Research interests

  • Classroom practice, with a focus on the teacher
  • Teacher learning, as the development of professional identity and expertise
  • Teacher research, particularly its role in professional learning and development
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