Department of Education
- Education
- Research
- Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Education
- Research themes
- The earliest stages of language learning
The earliest stages of language learning
Researchers working on projects in this area investigate the initial stages of language learning through laboratory-based, classroom-based, and naturalistic language learning.
- Charting the first hours of foreign language learning in the classroom (MS Word
, 4,177kb) (Leah Roberts with Emma Marsden) - Japanese children’s L2 identity development (PhD student: Keita Takashima)
- Learning novel morphology: Cross-modal priming (Emma Marsden with John Williams (University of Cambridge)
- The creation of a suitable syllabus for young language learners (PhD student: Geneffa Ahmed Virjee)
- The first 7 minutes of exposure to a new language (MS Word , 4,179kb) (Leah Roberts with Marianne Gullberg, Lund University; Christine Dimroth, University of Osnabrük; Peter Indefrey, University of Dusseldorf)
CASLE staff
Leah Roberts, Department of Education
Emma Marsden, Department of Education
CASLE students
Keita Takashima, PhD student, University of York
Associated members
John Williams, University of Cambridge
Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
Christine Dimroth, University of Osnabrük
Peter Indefrey, University of Dusseldorf
Research themes
- Bilingualism and bilingual cognition
- Classroom-based language learning, teaching and assessment
- Computer-assisted language learning
- Cross-cultural interaction analysis
- Language teacher education
- Literacy, biliteracy, L2 reading and writing
- Psychology and individual differences in language learning, teaching
- Research methodology and methods
- Second language acquisition
- Second language and bilingual processing
- Spoken and written discourse in educational settings