Sophia Skoufaki
Sophia is an associate supervisor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Her current research examines a) the learning and use of academic vocabulary by university students and b) how people come to think of a text as coherent or incoherent.
Her PhD research in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (2001-2005) was on formulaic language processing and learning. It examined through psycholinguistic experiments the comprehension and learning of English idiomatic expressions by adult advanced second language language learners.
Before coming to the University of Essex, she worked as a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Greenwich and at the Open University in the UK and conducted postdoctoral research on English learner corpus data at National Taiwan University.
Her PhD research in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (2001-2005) was on formulaic language processing and learning. It examined through psycholinguistic experiments the comprehension and learning of English idiomatic expressions by adult advanced second language language learners.
Before coming to the University of Essex, she worked as a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Greenwich and at the Open University in the UK and conducted postdoctoral research on English learner corpus data at National Taiwan University.
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