Vera Regan

Vera Regan is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in University College Dublin Research interests include Sociolinguistic theory and Second Language Acquisition, sociolinguistic analysis of variation in French (including French Canadian forms). Her current projects focus on language, migration, integration and interculturalism. Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques and Prix du Québec, she is currently President of the Association of French Language Studies and has been President of the European Association for Second Language Research. She is holder of two Fulbright Research Scholarships at the University of Pennsylvania and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Publications include “Variation in French Interlanguage” in Bayley R. and D. Preston (eds.) Variation in Second Language Acquisition, 1996. Benjamins Studies in Bilingualism. The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context. 2009. Multilingual Matters (with M. Howard and I. Lemée). Special issue, Journal of Sociolinguistics. “The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence” Guest Editor with R. Bayley. 2004, and, forthcoming, “Variation and Second Language Acquisition”. The Cambridge Handbook for Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. J. Herschensohn and M. Young-Scholten (eds.).

Professor Vera Regan
School of Languages and Literatures
University College Dublin

Tel: +353 (0)1 716 8448
Email: vera.regan@ucd.ie