Academic interests
My primary academic interest is grammar. I am a formal linguist interested to analyse and describe the structures of languages, language acquisition and language (grammar) teaching.
Teaching
The last three years, I have been engaged in teaching the following topics:
- English grammar
- English Language varieties
- Academic writing
- Theory and methodology for language and language teaching research.
Background
My general education is in Language studies with specialisation in Formal Grammars and Second/foreign language teaching/learning.
- BA in English Language studies: literature, linguistics and Second language teaching
- MA in Teaching English as a Second language: Second language acquisition, Critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, learner texts.
-PhD: Formal linguistics, computational linguistics, grammar development, Applicative, passive, double object, causative etc. constructions.