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Yanyu received her doctoral degree from the University of Newcastle and is working with us on the Estonian Research Council-funded project “Native Language Experience and the Brain’s Perception and Learning of a Foreign Language,” focusing on the learning of Mandarin tones by Estonian and English native speakers.

Emily’s MA thesis examines the emotions experienced by Russian-speaking students who major in a subject taught in Estonian, a foreign language to them. We aim to investigate how the control-value appraisals of the subject and the control-value appraisals of the foreign language interact to influence their emotions during the learning process.

Katarina works on the Estonian Research Council-funded project “Native Language Background and the Brain’s Perception and Learning of a Foreign Language” and her MA thesis uses EEG to investigate how Estonian and English speakers learn Chinese  tones

Reena’s MA thesis investigates how musical and visual-spatial aptitudes affects working memory and vocabulary learning.