My main interest in SLA is in the areas of intake and noticing. I am particularly interested in language processing and ways of identifying (with the ultimate aim of facilitating) different aspects of the language learning process. My current research looks at the different types of processing that occur under different learning conditions. For my research I was fortunate enough to be awarded a Top Achiever Doctoral award for my study titled ‘The effects of tasks on L2 learners’ intake and noticing of two grammatical structures’ supervised by Rod Ellis. Preliminary findings were presented at the SLRF conference, at EUROSLA and at AILA.

My PhD thesis, which reports on the results of this study, can be downloaded using the menu above.

In addition there is a bibliography with hundreds of SLA references. You can add your own references or search and download them. You can subscribe through RSS and you will be notified when new references have been added.

New! Mini encyclopaedia of Second Language Acquisition
Together with Shawn Loewen from Michigan State University we have just been given a contract to publish Key Concepts in Second Language Acquisition, a kind of handbook-encyclopaedia, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. We hope this book will be a useful guide for students and practising teachers taking courses in Second Language Acquisition. More information here as the writing progresses.