Research

I am an early career researcher and my research interests are in various areas of language:

• second language acquisition and processing (focus on grammar)
• child language development (both first and second)
• foreign language anxiety in university students

Publications:

Published

O’Reilly, J. & García-Castro, V. (2022). Exploring the relationship between foreign language anxiety and students’ online engagement at UK universities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Language Learning in Higher Education, 12(2), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2022-2054 

Von Stumm, S., O’Reilly, J., & d’Apice, K. (2022). Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/BJDP.12427 

García-Castro, V., & O’Reilly, J. (2022). Foreign Language Anxiety and online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison between EMI and FMI university students. English Teaching & Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/S42321-022-00120-X

O’Reilly, J. (May 2023). Reaction-time methods. In A. Parrish & G. Shaikh (Eds.), A quick guide to research methods for dissertations in Education. Bloomsbury.

Submitted 

O’Reilly, J. & Roberts, L. (under review). Online processing and production of L2 English articles by L1 Mandarin and L1 Croatian speakers. Applied Psycholinguistics.

In preparation

O’Reilly, J., O’Reilly, D., & Roberts, L. (2024, accepted for Special Issue). Processing tense/aspect agreement violations on-line: A replication of Roberts and Liszka (2013) with L1 Mandarin and L1 Croatian learners of L2 English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

O’Reilly, J. & Snape, N. (in preparation). Systematic review and metaanalysis of metalinguistic and oral production tasks in English articles research.