Professor Barcroft’s research and teaching focus on language teaching methodology, second language acquisition, grammar and vocabulary acquisition, and Hispanic linguistics.
Barcroft is a participating faculty member of the linguistics program and holds affiliate appointments in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program and the minor in applied linguistics. He teaches courses on language teaching methodology, second language acquisition, grammar and vocabulary acquisition, and Hispanic linguistics.
His articles appear in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Psycholinguistics, Second Language Research, and The Modern Language Journal. His input-based incremental approach to second language vocabulary instruction, which is grounded in research findings on lexical input processing, is described in articles in Foreign Language Annals and Hispania.
