Research Areas in the Department

Overview of Main Departmental Research Areas

For more detailed information about individual staff members' current research interests, see Staff Research Interests.

Research Area	People	Research Groups
L1 Acquisition	Professor Harald Clahsen Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss Professor Andrew Radford	>> Psycholinguistics Research Group
Language Teaching	Dr Helen Emery Dr Adela Ganem Dr Nigel Harwood Dr Bojana Petric Mr Phil Scholfield	>> English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Research Group >> English Language Teaching Research Group >> Vocabulary and Strategies Research Group
L2 Learning	Dr Helen Emery Dr Adela Ganem Dr Nigel Harwood Professor Roger Hawkins Dr Bojana Petric Dr Karen Roehr Mr Phil Scholfield	>> Language Learning Discussion Group >> Second Language Acquisition Research Group
Morphology	Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss Professor Andrew Spencer	>> Syntax Research Group
Phonology	Dr Wyn Johnson Dr Nancy Kula Professor Andrew Spencer	>> Phonology Research Group
Psycholinguistics	Professor Harald Clahsen Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss Dr Claudia Felser	>> Psycholinguistics Research Group
Sociolinguistics	Dr Enam Al-Wer Dr David Britain Dr Rebecca Clift Professor Peter Patrick	>> African Diaspora Englishes Research Group >> Conversation Analysis Group >> Language and Dialect Contact Research Group
Syntax	Dr Doug Arnold Professor Bob Borsley Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss Dr Claudia Felser Professor Roger Hawkins Dr Mike Jones Professor Andrew Radford Professor Louisa Sadler	>> Arabic Linguistics Workshop >> Constraint-based Linguistics Group >> Language and Computation Group >> Syntax Research Group