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			Nick Ellis Research Scientist; Professor of Psychology PhD University of Wales Contact Information University of Michigan English Language Institute 500 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 Phone: 734.647.0454 Email: ncellis@umich.edu Office Location: room 1011
About Nick Ellis   Nick joined the University of Michigan in August 2004 from University of Wales, Bangor, where he was Professor of Psychology. His research interests include language acquisition, cognition, reading in different languages, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and applied psycholinguistics. Two books on these topics are: Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages (Academic Press, 1994), and Handbook of Spelling: Theory, Process and Intervention (John Wiley, 1994, with Gordon Brown). He served as editor of Language Learning from 1998–2002 and is currently the general editor. Currently his research focuses on second language acquisition, particularly (1) explicit and implicit language learning and their interface, (2) usage-based acquisition and the probabilistic tuning of the system, (3) vocabulary and phraseology, (4) language and brain, (5) the advanced language learner, (6) applications of psychological theory in language testing and instruction, (7) learned attention and language transfer, (8) emergentist accounts of language acquisition. Homepage http://web.mac.com/ncellis/iWeb/Nick%20Ellis/Home.html