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Dr. Alison Porter joined the Languages, Cultures and Linguistics team at the University of Southampton in January 2015. She previously studied for an MA in Applied Linguistics with a focus on Research Methodology and earned her PhD in Modern Languages. Her doctoral thesis investigated the design, implementation, and evaluation of a principled pedagogic approach to the simultaneous teaching of French oracy (speaking and listening) and literacy in primary schools. Alison has experience as an English language teacher (ESL/EFL) for adults, teenagers, and young children in the United Kingdom and Australia. She spent a decade from 2002 to 2012 working as a specialist French teacher in English primary schools. Her research interests include foreign language (FL) teaching and learning in instructed settings, particularly the potential for cross-linguistic influence in early FL learning and evidence-informed pedagogies in teacher learning practices. She is actively involved in various research projects that explore the impacts of pedagogies on literacy development and teacher professional development, and she has also contributed as a consultant and speaker in relevant fields.
University of Southampton • Southampton, ENG, GB
Research and teach languages with a focus on applied linguistics and foreign language pedagogy.