Francisco Miguel Valada da Silva

Francisco Miguel Valada holds a master’s degree in Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and was awarded an EUTOPIA co-tutelle PhD Scholarship (EUTOPIA-PhD-2021-0000000063). He has been developing his research in the area of the acquisition of foreign/second language phonology. Within the joint PhD program EUTOPIA 2022, he is conducting the PhD project “Investigating the impact of implicit and explicit instruction on phonological acquisition in a second language”, under the supervision of Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Susana Correia (NOVA FCSH).