Languages and Applied Linguistics

2015-16 General Catalog

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Program Statement | Languages Course Descriptions | Academic English Course Descriptions | Applied Linguistics Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Applied Linguistics

Zsuzsanna Abrams
Applied linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication

Mark Amengual
Bilingualism and language contact, acoustic phonetics, sociophonetics, second-language acquisition, language variation and change, Spanish and Romance linguistics

Bryan Donaldson
Word order variation in medieval French and medieval Occitan through the lens of information structure, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics

Shigeko Okamoto
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and gender, foreign language pedagogy, Japanese linguistics

Eve Zyzik
Second language acquisition, heritage languages, Spanish linguistics, cognitive and usage-based theory, language pedagogy, content-based instruction

Chinese

David Keenan
Chinese language, fiction, and history

Ting Ting Wu
Sociolinguistics, Chinese novels, learning styles and teaching methodology for non-heritage speakers

French

Bryan Donaldson
Word order variation in medieval French and medieval Occitan through the lens of information structure, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics

Greta Hutchison
Foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, 20th-century French history and civilization, medieval French literature, 19th-century literature and art

German

Zsuzsanna Abrams
Applied linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication

Walter Campbell
Language teaching, 18th- and 19th-century German literature, history of German

Hebrew

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Hebrew language and culture, biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics, the Hebrew Bible, Jewish thought, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition and bilingualism

Italian

Giulia Centineo
Italian culture and civilization; history of Italian language; Italian linguistics, syntax, and semantics; language pedagogy; Italian cinema; dubbing; Italian migrations

Tonia Prencipe
Technology and foreign language pedagogy; modern Italian culture, history, literature, and cinema; creative writing; promotion of Italian language and culture of K-12

Japanese

Mariko Bohn
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, bilingualism, modern Japanese literature, language pedagogy

Sakae Fujita
Foreign language education, drama in education

Shigeko Okamoto
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and gender, foreign language pedagogy, Japanese linguistics

Portuguese

Ana Maria Seara
Portuguese language; literature, film, and music of Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world; acquisition and teaching of foreign, second, and heritage languages

Spanish and Spanish for Spanish Speakers

 Mark Amengual
Bilingualism and language contact; acoustic phonetics; sociophonetics; L2 acquisition; language variation and change; Spanish and Romance linguistics

Byron Barahona
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, Latin American literature and culture

Carlos Calierno
Intercultural communication and languages; Latin American culture; history of the conquest, music, art, and cinematography

María Victoria González-Pagani
Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax; computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural studies, especially women’s contributions

Marta Navarro
Spanish language pedagogy for heritage speakers and non-native speakers; theatre; Mexican popular culture

Ariel A. Pérez
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, computer-assisted language learning, teaching language for proficiency, oral proficiency assessment; Latin American current affairs

Alvaro Romero-Marco
Spanish literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries; film, cultural studies

Eve Zyzik
Second language acquisition, heritage languages, Spanish linguistics, cognitive and usage-based theory, language pedagogy, content-based instruction

Revised: 09/01/15