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. I am mostly responsible for the original information on many of the Linguistics Workgroup pages.
• Articles I've created: the Syllable, language acquisition, the Comprehension approach (also created on Wikipedia) Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (sourced from Wikipedia, but much originally mine anyway), Contact language, Japanese English (renamed and rewritten from the Wikipedia original), Romansh language, Martha Young-Scholten and Chris Higgins (the last two not found elsewhere).
• Articles which I intend to make a significant contribution to include Linguistics, Second language acquisition, Monitor Theory, the Critical Period Hypothesis, Applied linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Creole language and Singapore English.