Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium
Aline Godfroid is Professor in Second Language Studies and TESOL at Michigan State University, where she co-directs the Second Language Studies Eye-tracking Lab. She specializes in cognitive processes in second language acquisition, L2 psycholinguistics, eye-tracking, vocabulary acquisition and quantitative research methods. In her research, she seeks to build bridges between psychology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and real-world second language learning.
As a principal investigator, she has received grants from organizations including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Language Learning, the Humanities and Arts Research Program, and the Flanders-based research foundation, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, and has published prolifically in international, peer-reviewed journals including Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cognition and Emotion, Language Learning, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, and TESOL Quarterly.
Aline is currently an Associate Editor of Language Learning and Vice President of the European Second Language Association. She is the author of Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (Routledge, 2020) and the co-editor (with Holger Hopp) of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (2023).