About
Christian Jensen serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Humanities, focusing on phonetics and English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education. His research examines intelligibility of accented speech and pronunciation's impact on perceived academic competence, with significant contributions to understanding Danish-English phonetic interactions.
His educational background includes an MA in English and Phonetics and a PhD. Jensen's primary research areas encompass:
- English pronunciation (contrastive phonetics and phonology)
- Teaching and acquisition of pronunciation
- Speech prosody (stress/accent)
- EMI in European higher education
- Speech technology applications for language learning
Analysis of his publications from 2012-2024 reveals consistent evolution in EMI research, shifting from foundational studies on vowel perception to contemporary investigations of cognitive load in accented speech comprehension and student-lecturer dynamics. His work increasingly integrates technological approaches while maintaining empirical rigor in measuring intelligibility and academic outcomes.
Jensen actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles for journals including Nordic Journal of English Studies and Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and serves on review committees for conferences such as the International Symposium on Applied Phonetics. His departmental profile indicates involvement in developing web-based pronunciation training tools and participation in university-level EMI initiatives, though specific grant details remain unlisted in available materials.
