User:John Stephenson

I am a linguist specialising in acquisition of second language phonology and comprehension-based language learning. Following a BA in linguistics (Manchester) and an MA in language acquisition (Durham), I lectured part-time at the universities of York and Durham in the UK. Currently I teach linguistics and English at Mie University in Japan.

• スタッフ紹介（文化学科） Faculty of Humanities staff introductions, Mie University, Japan.
• My recent Citizendium edits - look here to see what I've been working on (or just see if I know what I'm talking about). I am mostly responsible for the original information on many of the Linguistics Workgroup pages, and have also been trying to get linguists and departments to link to Linguistics.
• Linguistics articles I've created: the Syllable, Language acquisition, English language, the Comprehension approach (also created on Wikipedia), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (sourced from Wikipedia, but much originally mine anyway), Contact language, Comparative linguistics, Japanese English (renamed and rewritten from the Wikipedia original), Romansh language, Grammar, Creolistics and Martha Young-Scholten (the last two not found elsewhere). I've also rewritten the Linguistics template and created one for language acquisition.
• Other articles I've created: Grand Hotel (Scarborough) (originally created on Wikipedia), Tony Blair, Yorkshire and Chris Higgins (the last one not on Wikipedia).
• Articles which I intend to make a significant contribution to include Linguistics, Language, Second language acquisition, Monitor Theory, the Critical Period Hypothesis, Applied linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Japanese language, Creole language and Singapore English. I rewrote the German language page, but don't intend to go back to it much. I'm also responsible for importing the Scarborough, York and Doctor Who articles (the latter divided into both new and 'classic').

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