Lab Director: Assistant Professor Trisevgeni Liontou
Alternate Director: Lecturer Anna Hatzidaki

Contact: BiPsyLab[at]enl.uoa[dot]gr 

Research and teaching activities in the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics (BiPsy) Lab are focused on the cognitive processes that underlie bilingual language comprehension and production, that is, language use by speakers who frequently use two languages, as well as second language acquisition or foreign language learning. The lab is equipped with laptops and desktops with software for designing and conducting experimental studies, and for collecting and analysing reaction time and accuracy measures. The lab has also facilities for corpus-based research. The objectives of the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics (BiPsy) Lab are to promote scientific knowledge of bilingual language processing and of the relationship between language and other aspects of human cognition and behaviour, to develop collaborations with universities and research centres and institutes in Greece and abroad, to disseminate BiPsy Lab’s findings through conferences, seminars and publications in scientific journals, and provide research training to undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students in the fields of Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics and Interlingual Studies.

Representative research lines of the BiPsy Lab:

  - Research in the cognitive processes underlying language comprehension and speech production in users of two languages (bilinguals) and in monolinguals.

  - Research in language interaction at the syntactic and semantic level, including code-switching.

  - Research in the cognitive processes of translation.

  - Research in EFL pedagogy, testing and assessment of foreign language skill development and competence.

  - Investigation of the factors that affect knowledge transmission.

  - Training in experimental methods and techniques, data collection and analysis as well as corpus analysis in the context of undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the Department of English Language and Literature.

  - Training in oral and written presentation skills in the context of undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the Department of English Language and Literature.