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John Field

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Internal

John supervises student dissertations at BA and MA levels and teaches the following modules:

  • LSMDG: Descriptive Grammar of English
  • LS2/3/MCL: Child Language Development
  • LSMDEG: English Grammar (Distance MA)
  • LS3/MPL: Psycholinguistics
  • LS2/3LM: Language and the Mind

External

Convenor of Psycholinguistics Special Interest Group of British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL); Member of BAAL Executive Committee, with responsibility for Special Interest Groups; Member of Advisory Board of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS); Former Co-ordinator of IATEFL Research Group, promoting classroom research by teachers.

The information here is only a summary - please see John's personal web page for more detail

John Field's research interests lie chiefly in second language listening, but he also investigates the acquisition and use of all four language skills by the L2 learner, applying ideas and research methods from cognitive psychology.

Second Language Skills and Processes

The following is a selection of John's publications:

Field, J.C. (2008) Listening in the Second Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press

Field, J.C. (2008) Bricks or mortar: Which parts of the input does a second language listener rely on? TESOL Quarterly, Special Issue on 'Psycholinguistics and TESOL'

Field, J.C. (2008) 'Emergent and divergent: a view of second language listening research. System 36/1

Field, J.C. (2008) 'Revising segmentation hypotheses in first and second language listening, System 36/1

Field, J.C. (2005) Language and Mind. London: Routledge

Field, J.C. (2004) Psycholinguistics: the Key Concepts. London: Routledge

John Field guest-edited special issues of TESOL Quarterly (on 'Psycholinguistics and TESOL') and System (on 'Second language listening') in 2008.

Qualifications

BA in English Language and Literature (University College London); MA in Linguistics and ELT (University of Leeds); MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University); PhD 'Lexical segmentation in first and foreign language listening' (Cambridge University); RSA Diploma in TEFLA

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