Departament: Filología Francesa e Inglesa

Institut d'investigació: Instituto de Lingüística Aplicada (ILA)

Àrea: Filologia Anglesa

Grup d'investigació: Lenguas y Lingüística Aplicada en Contextos Internacionales

Correu: david.levey@uca.es

Àrees PAIDI: Humanidades

Doctor per la Universidad de Cádiz amb la tesi English pronunciation and production tendencies in Gibraltar 2004. Dirigida per Dr/a. Angel Rosado García.

David Levey was born in London, studied in Warwick (UK) but has lived most of his adult life in Spain where he has been a university lecturer for almost 30 years. He is currently works at the University of Cádiz (Spain) where he lectures in Accents of English, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. His research interests include accent variation, language contact and change, speech perception, language testing and evaluation and pronunciation pedagogy. As well as publishing books and articles on various aspects of language acquisition, he has written extensively on the language situation in Gibraltar.