Laura Collins
Laura Collins is an
applied linguist whose research interests include: input and acquisition
(with a focus on classroom input); second language pedagogy and language
learning (with a focus on pedagogical grammar); cross-linguistic influence
among bilingual and multilingual speakers; and the relationship between
the distribution of instructional time and language learning outcomes.
A specific interest for the past few years has been the acquisition
of tense and grammatical aspect among second language learners. Her
research is informed by several years of language teaching, both domestically
and overseas, to children, adolescents, and adults. She is the co-editor
of the Canadian Modern Language Review (http://www.utpjournals.com/cmlr/cmlr.html),
and the Applied Linguistics Theme Leader at Concordia's Centre for the
Study of Learning and Performance (http://doe.concordia.ca/cslp).