Sophia’s main research interest is the learning, teaching, and use of vocabulary in a second language. She is also interested in first- and second-language literacy skills in countries where English is a foreign or second language. She has recently conducted collaborative research on reading comprehension in an indigenous language (Igbo) and in English in Nigeria. While working as a postdoctoral researcher, she examined the role of vocabulary in English as a foreign language oral fluency and writing quality in Taiwan. Sophia’s current research examines a) foreign/second language English academic vocabulary learning and teaching, b) the comprehension of figurative language during first-language reading, and c) how people come to perceive a text as coherent or not.
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Lecturer
United Kingdom

Academic Area

Education, Linguistics

coherence in discourse, literacy, reading comprehension, Vocabulary learning and teaching

Geographic Area

Asia and Oceania, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa

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