Dr Giulia Bovolenta
Lecturer
Research
My research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that support language learning in adults. Specifically, I am interested in the processes that take place during learning, and how they are shaped by individual differences.
In my current project, I am investigating how different sources of difficulty in language learning (both individual differences and properties of the input) affect the ways in which we process and encode new language forms during learning.
I have also worked on related aspects of language learning and processing: prediction during language processing, error-based learning, and implicit learning (learning without awareness).
Research outputs (8)
- E-pub ahead of print
The effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Effects of Form-Focused Practice and Feedback: A Multisite Replication Study of Yang and Lyster (2010)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Implicit learning in production: Productive generalization of new form-meaning connections in the absence of awareness.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review