Keyword: School of Languages and Translation Studies

The Department of Phonetics at the University of Turku is the first one in the world to combine both ultrasound technology and research on the evoked potentials of the brain in the development of language education. With the two different methods, researchers are looking for new, more effective ways to teach foreign languages. The research can also have applications in the treatment of speech disorders in the future.

The Department of English has learnt with great sadness of the death of Gerald Doherty, who taught in the Department as Lecturer from 1972 to his retirement in 1994.