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Research
Research interests
- Second language acquisition and bilingualism
- Heritage language acquisition
- Variation and acquisition of variation in Romance languages
Current research
James currently researches the grammars of Spanish heritage speakers and their parents in the United Kingdom. Heritage speakers are bilingual native speakers of a language who have grown up in a place where this language is not widely used outside the home, which can have wide-ranging consequences for the grammar of this language. The 2021 census reveals that Spanish is the sixth most widely spoken familly language after English or Welsh in the UK, yet we know very little about how this language is learnt and maintained in this country. James particularly investigates how the English language knowledge of these bilingual speakers affects their knowledge and use of specific verb tenses in Spanish from a generative linguistic perspective.
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Teaching
As a Teaching Fellow, James teaches on a variety of linguistics and applied linguistics modules at undergraduate and postgraduate taught level. He also advises student dissertations in linguistics and applied linguistics.
In 2023/2024, he will be part of the teaching team on the following modules:
- LANG1017 Academic Skills for Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
- LING1001 Elements of Linguistics
- LING2002 Psycholinguistics
- LING3001 Second Language Acquisition
- LING6005 Second Language Learning
- LING6017 Research Skills
- LING6066 Analysing Language for ELT/TESOL
- SPAN2010 Exploring Spanish Linguistics
James also suppports education within the department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics as one of the departmental Academic Integrity Officers, and as the international exchange coordinator for English language and linguistics students.
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Biography
James completed undergraduate studies in French and Spanish with Linguistics, before working as an English teacher in France. James then completed a Masters in Applied Linguistics and PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism at the University of Southampton, finishing in 2021. James then worked as a Research Assistant on the Vulnerable Native Grammars project until 2022, when he was appointed as a Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition at Newcastle University, before returning to Southampton as a Teaching Fellow in Languages, Culture and Linguistics in 2023.
James is an active member of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research and convenes the Language Acquisition, Variation and Cognition reading group in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. James is also an external member of the Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development research group in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. In addition to his teaching position in Southampton, in 2024 James also provided statistical expertise as a Research Fellow on a project on heritage Spanish in the UK in the Department of Modern Languages at Birmingham University.
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