My research investigates what makes it difficult to comprehend a non-native language efficiently and explores ways to facilitate non-native language processing with a focus on predictive processing. I am also interested in how orthographic information influences listening comprehension. I mainly use eye-tracking (visual world paradigm), EEG and reaction time measures in my experiments.

Hi, I’m currently a PhD student in Aine Ito’s lab. My research interests focus on the language process of bilinguals, in particular the interaction of L1 and L2, and varied linguistic representations of different language groups. You could contact me by email: e1148822@u.nus.edu

I am currently a Ph.D. student in English Language and Linguistics at NUS and a member of Dr. Aine Ito’s lab. My research interests center around implicit (language) learning, specifically investigating the occurrence of (linguistics) adaptation through prediction error when faced with unexpected predictions. I aim to examine how L2 English learners, with diverse L1 backgrounds, predict and revise their predictions during non-native sentence processing. Utilizing eye-tracking measurement, I hope to make a valuable contribution to SLA and gain new insights into the question of whether prediction is an essential mechanism in (language) learning or not.

I am currently a doctoral student at NUS, working with Professor Aine Ito. My research interests lie in facilitating the real-time processing of the non-native language and discovering its intricate relationship with the native language. Additionally, by utilizing behavioral measures like eye-tracking, I am keen on exploring what can be revealed by the language we speak, especially the errors we make and the difficulties we encounter.

Pronouns: she/her, Email: e1148827@u.nus.edu

I am currently a student in the ELL PhD program, working with Aine Ito in the Bilingualism and Language Processing Lab. My research focuses on prediction and cross-linguistic activation in language comprehension via online and offline measures, such as reaction time and eye-tracking. Besides, I find the gap in psychological processes of language comprehension between L1 and L2 speakers meaningful, as it implies how to facilitate L2 language processing.

For a decade, Steve Paquin has been teaching children, both native English and second-language speakers, to read English using phonics. He has taught at private primary schools and language centers in Las Vegas, Nevada; Koreatown, L.A., California; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is joining the National University of Singapore to earn a PhD. in English Language Linguistics.

In the summer of 2023, he was a Research Assistant in two labs at the University of Maryland, College Park. Within the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department, he worked in Dr. Rochelle Neman's Language Development and Perception Lab. As part of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, he assisted in Dr. J. Bolger's Neural Tuning of Reading project. He is interested in studying how English orthography and phonology aids reading acquisition for young-learners, both native English and second-language speakers.

In 2024, he will be conferred with an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also holds a Cambridge CELTA (2017) and DELTA (2020). His B.A. (2011) is from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.

I am an MA research student at the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies, working with Dr Aine Ito in the Bilingualism and Language Processing Lab. My research interest lies in the real-time sentence processing by non-native English learners. Specifically, I am interested in investigating the role of working memory in the predictive processing of complex syntactic structures and how individual differences in the working memory capacity influence differences in predictive processing strategies. I am also interested in how individual differences in working memory capacity correlate with accuracy rates in comprehending complex syntactic structures. Email: e1374296@u.nus.edu