Judit Kormos is a Professor in Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University and in the autumn term she is a visiting professor position at the University of Vienna. She was a key partner in the award-winning DysTEFL project sponsored by the European Commission and is a lead educator in the Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching massive open online learning course offered by FutureLearn.  She is the co-author of the book Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences with Anne Margaret Smith. She has published widely on the effect of dyslexia on learning additional languages including a book entitled The second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties. She is the author of multiple research papers that investigate the role of cognitive factors in second language acquisition. She has been recently working on two Erasmus+ funded projects that have developed digital language learning tasks for inclusive language teaching.