Dr Eloi Puig-Mayenco holds a lecturer position in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London. He is also a member of the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication.

Before starting his current position in 2020, he obtained a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of Reading and held an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southampton (2019-20) to investigate the acquisition of a third language in childhood.

Research interests

• Second/third language acquisition
• Early bilingualism
• Linguistic phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface
• Methods in non-native language acquisition research

Teaching

Eloi teaches on the BA in English Language and Linguistics, as well as the MA in Applied Linguistics. He currently teaches:

• Second language learning
• Quantitative research methods
• Second/additional language acquisition

PhD supervision

Eloi would be interested in supervising students working on any topic related to second/third language acquisition, especially as it relates to the acquisition of properties that lie at the syntax-semantics interface. He would be happy to supervise students working on any language pairing/triad.

You can find out more about Eloi's research on his PURE profile page.