School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Nick Bertenshaw

Dr. Nick Bertenshaw

Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics

School of Languages and Area Studies

Park Building
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth Hampshire
PO1 2DZ
UK

Nick.Bertenshaw@port.ac.uk

Profile

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) English language and linguistics (Roehampton)
  •  MA Language acquisition (Essex)
  •  PhD Language and linguistics (Essex)

Units taught
BA linguistics units

  • Language and text
  • Language, society and mind
  • Second language acquisition, bilingualism and education
  • Starting language research
  • The structure of English
  • Working with texts

BA English language units

  • Business communication 2
  • English language grade 4 – business 2
  • English language grade 5
  • Independent project
  • Introduction to business communication

MA units

  • Second language learning

Research interests

  • First and second language acquisition
  • Sentence processing
  • Bilingualism

Publications
Felser, C., Sato, M. & Bertenshaw, N. (2009). The on-line application of binding Principle A in English as a second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12 (4), 485–502.