Dr Michael Harrington
Dr Michael Harrington

MA Hawai'i PhD California (Santa Cruz) 

Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics Discipline Coordinator
Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (#) 429
phone: +61 (7) 3365 6719  
Email: m.harrington@uq.edu.au
 
Author of articles on:
  • Second language sentence processing.
  • Second language reading and vocabulary development.
  • The role of working memory in second language learning.
  • The acquisition of Japanese and English as second languages.
  • Computer-assisted language learning.  
Research interests:
  • second language acquisition
  • applied linguistics
  • cognitive model of second language learning
  • computer-assisted language learning.
Current research:
  • memory-based models of sentence processing
  • working memory capacity and aptitude for second language learning
  • computer-mediated second language development. 

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