Aki SiegelSenior Lecturer
About me
Aki Siegel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University, UK.
Her research focuses on second language use and development in English as a foreign language and multilingual contexts. Recently, she has been particularly interested in how relationships are co-constructed and develop over time in second language interactions.
Her recent book, co-authored with Paul Seedhouse, "Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System: A Longitudinal Study of L2 Interaction" (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), demonstrates how human interactions function as a complex adaptive system. The book uses conversation analysis and Complex Dynamics Systems Theory (CDST) and describes how the two are compatible research approaches.
She is also a member of the ReMODEL project funded by the Swedish Research Council (2024-2026), investigating students' real-time listening comprehension in English as a Medium of Instruction university classes.
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