Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

   

Bettina Beinhoff is a Teaching and Research Associate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Her main research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, phonetics and phonology and include:

• The structure of non-native speaker accents of English, the interrelation of production and perception in acquiring second language speech.
• Acceptability of accents in social contexts and factors involved in acceptability judgements in cross-cultural and intercultural settings.
• The influence of attitudes on second language acquisition processes.

Bettina received a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis dealt with attitudes towards native and non-native speaker accents of English.