Aline Godfroid

Aline Godfroid is a Professor in Second Language Studies and TESOL at Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters. She co-directs the Second Language Studies Eye-tracking Lab and contributes to interdisciplinary research bridging psychology, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition (SLA). Her work emphasizes cognitive processes, eye-tracking methodologies, and quantitative analysis.

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Brussels (VUB)

Her research explores vocabulary acquisition, L2 psycholinguistics, and automatization in language processing. She advocates for inclusivity in SLA research, addressing sampling biases and theoretical generalizability.

Recent publications focus on explicit-implicit knowledge dynamics, morphosyntax, and eye-tracking applications. These works span subtopics like verb morphology, predictive processing, and modality effects in language learning. Her methodological contributions highlight experimental rigor in SLA.

• Outstanding Research Award (2019)

She serves as Associate Editor for Language Learning and Vice President of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA). Her lab advances eye-tracking techniques for SLA studies, and she has authored/co-edited influential texts like Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (2020) and The Routledge Handbook of SLA and Psycholinguistics (2023).