Current research students (with year when studies started and thesis title) 1. Chaengchenkit, R. (2002) Explaining optionality in the use of English tense and agreement morphology by native speakers of Thai. 2. Jeon, Y. (2004) Acquisition of the English article system by native speakers of Korean and Spanish. 3. Al-Thubaiti, K. (2005) Age effects on the acquisition of uninterpretable features in a minimal input setting. 4. Gaspar García, B, (2007) The acquisition of grammatical tense/aspect distinctions and tense/aspect morphemes in L2 English 5. Taha, I. (2007) The acquisition of grammatical tense/aspect distinctions and tense/aspect morphemes in L2 English 6. Bautista Maldonado, S. (2007) Role of argument structure in the acquisition of second language English. 7. Essa, H. (2007) The acquisition of English morphology by L1 speakers of Libyan Arabic. 8. Alenezi, Y. (2007) Lexical knowledge and development in the English of L1 speakers of Kuwaiti Arabic. 9. Muroya, A. (2005 - distance) Testing theories of second language acquisition 10. Mussa, A. (co-supervision with S Eisenbeiss) (2008) Sequential acquisition in infancy of Arabic and English 11. Romano, F. (April 2008) A longitudinal study of the adult second language acquisition of English and Italian SV agreement. 12. Kabli, Hanan (2008) The acquisition of English locational and resultative change of state constructions by Saudi Arabic learners 13. Shaheen, Buthaina (co-supervision with R Borsley) (2008) A comparative study of relative clauses in Syrian Arabic and English and their acquisition by speakers of Syrian Arabic 14. Alharbi, Mohammed (2008) Acquisition of argument structure realisation in English by Saudi Arabic speakers 15. Ogawa, Mutsumi (2009) The count-mass distinction in second language acquisition