Maddi Alkain Arizmendi

Maddi Alkain Arizmendi is a PhD student in the Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (LAMS) program under the supervision of Dr. María Martínez Adrián and Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo. She holds a BA in English Studies and a MA degree in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (LAMS), both from the University of the Basque Country (EHU). During the MA program, she wrote her MA thesis entitled “L3 Regressive Transfer: A Study of Null Objects in the Basque and Spanish Grammars of Advanced L3 English Speakers”, which was later published in the International Journal of Applied Linguistics (INJAL). She has received a research grant (FPI, PREP2024-003228) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, which supports her doctoral work within the FIMIGREFL project.

Research Interests

• Language transfer
• Metalinguistic awareness
• Individual differences on language learning