Expertise:

Training Teachers in ESL, Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Pedagogy, words lexicon linguistics education learning tesl

Language(s) spoken:

English

Professional associations:

PhD

Dr Horst conducts research in the area of second language vocabulary acquisition; she is interested in corpus-based approaches to investigating lexical development. A current project focuses on the word learning benefits of reading extensively in a second language. This involves collecting a large corpus of simplified texts developed for learners of English (graded readers) and analyzing its lexical content. Another project investigates the use of online computer tools for learning the vocabulary of academic English. With colleagues, she is evaluating a corpus of writing produced by young francophone learners of English. She also teaches courses in second language vocabulary acquisition, the history of English, methodology of ESL teaching, and language testing and evaluation. She has extensive experience of teaching ESL and EFL in North America and abroad; she has taught at universities in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Hong Kong and Canada. 

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