Shona Whyte has a PhD in linguistics from Indiana University. She teaches English, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy at the university in Nice, France, where she has been since 1995. Her research topics include second language acquisition, English for research purposes, and how and what learners acquire when learning a second language.

1. SHONA WHYTE
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2. MYSELF
Grew up in Scotland
Studied in France, the US
PhD in linguistics, Indiana
University
teach English, SLA and
language pedagogy
in Nice since 1995

3. MY TOPIC
second language
acquisition
English for Research
Purposes
what/how do learners
acquire?

4. KEY WORDS
fluency
accuracy
interlanguage
discourse community
task-based language learning