Research Interests

• Interactional Linguistics
• Applied Linguistics & Educational Linguistics
• Plurilingualism

• Foreign/Second Language Acquisition & Development
• Plurilingual (First) Language Acquisition
• Early Language / Learning
• Learning & Multilingualism
• Discourse & Interaction (focus: Plurilingual & Multimodal Data)
• Categorization & Stereotyping in Interaction and Cognition

• Building & Exploitation of Corpora & Databases (focus: Plurlingual & Developmental Settings)
• Technology Enriched, Process Driven Learning Devices & Practices

• Methodological Issues in Research on Discourse/Language Learning & Teaching Processes