Person

Alastair Henry

Professor

  • English Studies
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

Contact information

E-mail alastair.henryenglund.luse

Room SOL:H317b

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

I am a Professor in Language Education at the Centre for Languages andLiterature (SOL).

My research involves the psychology of language learning and languageteaching. I am interested in motivation, language learners’ communicationbehaviors, language teachers’ motivational practices and teacher identitydevelopment. I have a particular interest in multilingualism, and haveinvestigated motivation in relation to English, Modern Languages, and Swedishas a Second Language.

I have been the principal investigator for two projects financed by theSwedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

Motivational teaching in Swedish secondaryEnglish (MoTiSSE), 2014–2018 (7 400 000 SEK)

Migration,host-country language learning, and the influence of global English, 2019–2022

(4 400 000 SEK).

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Academic service

I am the co-editor of Journal for Psychology of Language Learning.

I am a member of the boards of the following journals:

The Modern Language Journal

System

Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development

Language Teaching Research Quarterly

In addition to these journals, I regularly carry out reviews for thefollowing journals:

TESOL Quarterly; Language Teaching; Language TeachingResearch; Research Methods in Applied Linguistics; InternationalJournal of Multilingualism; Journal of Constructivist Psychology.

Supervision of doctoral students

I am the main supervisor for Linda Febring (University West)

I have been the faculty opponent /external examiner for the 12 doctoraltheses.

Alastair Henry

Professor

  • English Studies
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

Contact information

E-mail alastair.henryenglund.luse

Room SOL:H317b

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

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