Not all language learners are the same
Dr Murakami’s uses innovative data analysis methods to examine how people learn second languages.
His research has found that a learner’s first language influences how they acquire certain basic elements of English grammar, challenging previous assumptions about universal learning orders.
His work has also shown how different types of writing tasks affect language learning at various proficiency levels. By combining methods from second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and statistics, he offers new perspectives on how people learn languages.