Mr Jye Smallwood

  • PhD Student
  • President, Girton College MCR (2024-2025)
  • English Language Fellow, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs
Mr Jye Smallwood

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Location

  • Cambridge

About

Jye is currently a PhD student in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL) at the University of Cambridge.

Jye joined the DTAL psycholinguistics lab after completing an MSc in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching at the University of Oxford. His research is motivated by his experience in teaching English as a Second Language in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Colombia, Macedonia, Poland, the US, and the UK. Jye is currently under the supervision of Dr Dora Alexopolou, who was recently appointed a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His doctoral project involves understanding how grammatical properties in first language impact second language acquisition.

 

  • University of Cambridge: PhD Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2022-
  • University of Oxford: MSc Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching, 2019-2021
  • University of Newcastle: MA Applied Policy Research (Education), 2009-2010
  • Northumbria University: BA (Hons) English, 2007-2008
  • President, Girton College MCR (Postgraduate Students' Union)
  • Member of the Cambridge Linguistics Society

 

Research

Thesis: The Role of L1 Typology and L2 Proficiency in Predicting Null Subject Transfer

  • Syntax
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Research Methods (Quantitative)

Teaching and supervision

  • Foundational Syntax (Generative)
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Teacher Leadership, 
  • Teaching Receptive Skills, 
  • English for Academic Purposes (EAP), 
  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP; Military, Diplomacy, Public Policy)