Honorary Associate Professor
Dottore in Lettere & Filosofia, University of Florence
MA in Educational Management, University of Greenwich
PhD in Second Language Acquisition, University of Greenwich
Alessandro Benati is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University College Dublin, Ireland. He has held academic positions in several British and overseas institutions. He has published ground-breaking research on the pedagogical framework called processing instruction. Alessandro has coordinated national and international high-impact research projects which have been influential in determining educational policy and had an impact in providing effective language teacher training programs. He is the author and co-author of several research monographs, peer-reviewed articles in high-ranked journals, and editor and co-editor of book series and scientific journals such as Cambridge Elements in SLA and Instructed Second Language Acquisition. He was a member of the sub-panel for Modern Languages and Linguistics for the Research Excellence Framework for England (REF 2021), and the AHRC Panel (UK).
In-House Committees:
AJAL
Professional Affiliations:
Visiting Professor, Macquarie University, Australia, University of Anaheim, USA
Scientific advisor at University of Salzburg, Austria https://pibilinguals.wixsite.com/pibil3
Honorary Professor at the University of York SJ, UK
Selected Publications / Presentations:
Benati, A. (2024). Second language teacher education; A cognitive and evidence-based perspective. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/second-language-teacher-education-9781350438156/
VanPatten, B., Smith, M., Benati, A., (2024). Key questions in second language acquisition: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (second edition).
Benati, A. (2024). The effects of structured input on the acquisition of English passive and active constructions: Online measurements of native and non-native processing behaviours. Language Teaching Research (forthcoming).
Grants / Awards / Other Achievements:
Supporting the Linguistic Integration of Immigrant Adolescents: Investigating Individual and Instructional Variables in Second Language Grammar Processing. HORIZON-MSCA-2023 – Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023
Co-ordinator of New UCD Psycholinguistic Lab https://www.ucd.ie/education/research/lab/