Office: Room 301, 37-41 College Road

Office hours: Tuesdays 10-11am and Thursdays 10-11am

Email: g.bovolenta@bangor.ac.uk

My research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that support language learning in adults. Specifically, I am interested in the processes that take place during learning, and how they are shaped by individual differences.

In my current project, I am investigating how different sources of difficulty in language learning  (both individual differences and properties of the input) affect the ways in which we process and encode new language forms during learning.

I have also worked on related aspects of language learning and processing: prediction during language processing, error-based learning, and implicit learning (learning without awareness).

I am willing to supervise a PhD

2024

• E-pub ahead of printA Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test: Towards estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent learners in England
  Dudley, A., Marsden, E. & Bovolenta, G., 25 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language Testing.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedHow do we use memory when learning a foreign language?
  Bovolenta, G., Jun 2024.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
• PublishedRecall, generalisation and the role of declarative memory in the acquisition of new L2 morphology: A pilot study
  Bovolenta, G. & Williams, J. N., Jul 2024.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
• PublishedThe effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study
  Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., Jan 2024, In: Applied Psycholinguistics. 45, 1, p. 110-137 28 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe role of verbal declarative memory in L2 morphology learning: Explicit rule knowledge vs. item-based learning
  Bovolenta, G., 6 Sept 2024.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

2023

• PublishedEffects of Form-Focused Practice and Feedback: A Multisite Replication Study of Yang and Lyster (2010)
  Mifka-Profozic, N., Behney, J., Gass, S. M., Macis, M., Chiuchiù, G. & Bovolenta, G., 12 Dec 2023, In: Language Learning. 73, 4, p. 1164-1210
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedImplicit learning in production: Productive generalization of new form-meaning connections in the absence of awareness.
  Bovolenta, G. & Williams, J. N., Sept 2023, In: Language Learning. 73, 3, p. 723-758
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedStructural prediction during language comprehension revealed by electrophysiology: Evidence from Italian auxiliaries.
  Bovolenta, G. & Husband, E. M., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 49, 1, p. 116-129
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedPrediction and error-based learning in L2 processing and acquisition
  Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., Dec 2022, In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 44, 5, p. 1384-1409 26 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• PublishedExpectation Violation Leads to Generalization: The Effect of Prediction Error on the Acquisition of New Syntactic Structures
  Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., 2021, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyVolume. Vol. 43. p. 875-881
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
• PublishedExpectation violation enhances the development of new abstract syntactic representations: evidence from an artificial language learning study
  Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., Dec 2021, In: Language Development Research. 1, 1, p. 193-243
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedPrediction failure blocks the use of local semantic context
  Husband, E. M. & Bovolenta, G., Apr 2020, In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 35, 3, p. 273-291 19 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• Psycholinguistics at Hidden Worlds Science Festival

  Demonstration where members of the public got to try out classic psycholinguistics tasks, and learn more about how we recognize words when listening or reading.

  9 Mar 2024

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
• Recall, generalisation and declarative memory in L2 morphology learning

  Talk delivered at Cylch Ieithyddiaeth / Linguistics Circle, Bangor University

  21 Feb 2024

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• Investigating the nature of difficulty in language learning with EEG

  01/12/2023 – 15/12/2025 (Active)