Research Overview

My work focuses on adult multilingual migrants’ language learning and on how teaching can draw on, rather than suppress, their full linguistic repertoires.

I am particularly interested in pedagogical translanguaging, that is, the guided use of all the learners’ languages to build the new language through analogy. I examine how structural links between languages (morphology, syntax, meaning) support positive transfer and limit interference.

To investigate these mechanisms, I combine classroom interventions in French as an additional language with artificial grammar learning paradigms and EEG measures in the lab. My aim is to connect observable “transfer” effects to more general analogical processes and to inform the design of inclusive and effective teaching methods for multilingual learners.