''Learning foreign languages is not the same as acquiring your native language. A thought that is quite common. And.. grammatical development in foreign language learners is often underestimated..''  

dr. Marco Bril is an assistant professor of Psycholinguistics and French Linguistics. In his research he specifically focuses on grammatical development in second or foreign language learners. The central questions he attempts to answer in his research are i. how grammatical knowledge is related to language production and comprehension in a foreign language and ii. how cognitive, linguistic, social and educational factors (jointly) contribute to grammatical development. To do so, he combines methods from linguistics and social sciences. The aims are to gain a deeper comprehension of how language structure develops in second or foreign language acquisition and to contribute to discussions about the position of grammatical knowledge in relation to language competences and AI literacy.

In line with his research interests Marco teaches several BA and MA courses in the field of language acquisition theory, language education and experimental research. He is involved in the BA French Language and Culture, the minor Language Development, the Educational Master, the Master Multilingualism & Language Acquisition and the research master Linguistics. He also supervises BA, MA and PhD research projects which relate to his research interests.

Marco is:

• Member of the Ethics Assessment Committee of Linguistics 
• MA thesis coordinator of the Educational Master (Graduate School of Teaching) 
• Cluster coordinator of Language Pedagogy in Modern Foreign Languages 
• Member of the Language & Education and Language Acquisition, Processing & Disorders research groups 
• Member of the steering board of the international Going Romance Conference 
• Reviewer for several international scientific journals such as International Journal of Listening, Language Teaching Research and Journal of the European Second Language Association 
• An active board member of the Dutch Association of Linguistics (AVT) and the international association of generative linguistics (GLOW).