Ute Römer-Barron

Dr. Ute Römer-Barron is a prominent researcher in corpus linguistics with over 20 years of contributions to language teaching, academic writing, and phraseological analysis. She serves as General Editor for the Studies in Corpus Linguistics book series and has co-edited multiple volumes on corpus-driven methodologies.

• Specializes in verb-argument constructions (VACs) and formulaic sequences
• Investigates second language acquisition through computational corpus analysis
• Develops pedagogical frameworks for corpus-based English teaching

Her work spans academic writing in English as a lingua franca (2020), L2 development patterns (2019), and psycholinguistic studies of construction learning (2014). Recent research (2024) examines modal verb constructions in L2 learners.