This module explores how the human mind allows us to understand and produce language so rapidly and effortlessly. Some of the research on English that we touch on in the module is described in this book chapter; but we go beyond English to look at the neuropsychology of bilingualism and sign languages too, using some of my own research on the second language mental lexicon. You’ll also get hands-on experience with psycholinguistic research by helping to conduct a group experiment and analysing the results. For more about the subject, see the chapter I wrote on it in this textbook.
Chris Hall
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Nikki
Before being appointed as Head of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience in the Business School, I was Head of Programme for English Language and Linguistics at YSJ for seven years. I have been teaching for 14 years, specialising in phonetics and phonology, and I still teach on the ELL programme. I'm specifically interested in regional variation and children's acquisition of their accent. I have just started a PhD in phonological acquisition at the University of York.
My background in learning and teaching is that I was awarded an University (college at the time) fellowship in 2005, for my work embedding technical skills into teaching. I then became Senior Teaching Fellow for the Business School in 2010 which was connected to my work exploring the potential of new technologies to e-marking and feedback, with Mark Dransfield. I'm also a mentor and assessor for the University's dialogic route to HEA fellowship.
