Teresa Cadierno
Teresa Cadierno is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Director of the Second Language Research Center (SELC) at the University of Southern Denmark. Her main research areas are instructed second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, with special focus on the acquisition of grammar by adult L2 learners, L2 input processing and the role of formal instruction in adult L2 acquisition; and the investigation of second language acquisition from the theoretical perspective of usage-based / cognitive linguistics, with special focus on investigating L2 learning as the process of learning to re-think for speaking, and the process of constructing an L2 system.
Her work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and The Modern Language Journal. In recent years she has published several articles and book chapters on the topic of usage-based SLA, such as her co-edited special section of the journal of Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics on “Constructing a second language” (with N. C. Ellis, 2009) and her co-edited volume on Linguistic relativity in SLA: Thinking for speaking (with Z-H. Han, 2010). In 1996 she received the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - Modern Language Journal (ACTFL - MLJ) Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education. Currently she is the leader of the Velux Fond-financed project on Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition, and she is a member of the Marie Curie Multi-Partner ITN project on Language and perception (LanPercept).
Her work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and The Modern Language Journal. In recent years she has published several articles and book chapters on the topic of usage-based SLA, such as her co-edited special section of the journal of Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics on “Constructing a second language” (with N. C. Ellis, 2009) and her co-edited volume on Linguistic relativity in SLA: Thinking for speaking (with Z-H. Han, 2010). In 1996 she received the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - Modern Language Journal (ACTFL - MLJ) Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education. Currently she is the leader of the Velux Fond-financed project on Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition, and she is a member of the Marie Curie Multi-Partner ITN project on Language and perception (LanPercept).