Dr. Lorena Jessop

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Biography

Lorena Jessop is a lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University. She specializes in linguistics, with a focus on language acquisition, laboratory phonetics, sociolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught courses in English Language Linguistics in Japan, the USA, and Canada. At Queen's, she teaches courses such as Introduction to Linguistics (LING 100), Phonetics (LING 310), and Language Acquisition (LING 210). Jessop's research aims to provide pedagogical recommendations for teaching pronunciation based on empirical research. Her investigations have included the phonetics and phonology of English, Spanish, and French, and she has explored topics such as 'uptalk' and latrinalia. Her notable publications include works on form-focused instruction and quantitative analysis of uptalk in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

Research Interests

Courses

Introduction to Linguistics Phonetics Language Acquisition

Requirements for Queen's University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:88
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor degree Background in Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering
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Specialization Notes

Department of Computing offers research-based, project-based, and course-based patterns.