I am a doctoral researcher at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University. I research the application of corpus methods to the analysis of vocabulary in L2 English speech to inform language testing and second language acquisition.

More specifically, my current PhD research explores lexical complexity at different proficiency levels in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, a 4.2-million-word learner corpus of L2 English spoken exams. My research involves 1) advancing a new method for measuring lexical complexity in spoken language and 2) examining the relationships between lexical complexity, learner characteristics, and task design.

I am a member of the SLLAT, LTRG and Trinity research groups.

PhD Linguistics, Lancaster University (in progress)

MA Applied Linguistics and ELT, King's College London (2017)

MA English Language and Literary Studies, Università degli Studi di Milano (2008)

BA Modern Languages and Literary Studies, Università degli Studi di Milano (2007)

LING326 - Corpus-based English language studies

Previous teaching:

LING102 - English Language

LING218 - Language and Pedagogic Practice

LING531 - Trends and Issues in Language Teaching Methodology (MA TESOL distance)