Robert DeKeyser
(Ph.D., Education with a minor in Linguistics, Stanford University, 1986).
Areas of interest: interlanguage variability, individual differences in language learning, aptitude-treatment interaction, cognitive psychology of language acquisition, critical period phenomena; monitoring processes, effects of study abroad.
Alaa Elgibali
(Ph.D., General Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, 1985).
Areas of interest: acquisition of Arabic as a first and second language; acquisition, teaching and testing of
Arabic; Arabic sociolinguistics, language change, and educational reform; dialect recognition and description.
Fred Eckman
(Ph.D., Linguistics, Indiana University).Fred Eckman has served as a Guest Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, Germany in 1995, 2000, 2002 and 2006. In recent years, his research has focused on the linguistic principles and constraints that shape both the phonological and syntactic development of interlanguage grammars. He is currently the principal investigator on a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health studying the acquisition of second-language pronunciation by adult L2 learners.
Michael H. Long
Director, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
(Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980).
Areas of interest: epistemological issues and theory change in SLA; age
differences; maturational constraints and sensitive periods in SLA; SLA
processes, e.g, stabilization/fossilization in interlanguage development,
negative feedback (models and recasts) in second language acquisition; language
aptitude; the advanced learner; second language research methods; foreign
language needs analysis; task-based language teaching.
Robert Ramsey
(Ph.D., Linguistics, Yale University, 1975).
Areas of interest: historical development of Korean and Japanese and historical relationships between the two languages; East Asian dialectology, phonology and structure of the Japanese language; historical linguistics; sociolinguistics.
David Branner
(Ph.D., Asian Linguistics (Chinese), University of Washington, Seattle, 1997).
Areas of interest: descriptive and historical Chinese linguistics; southern Chinese dialectology; traditional sinology.
Kira Gor
(Ph.D., Linguistics and Experimental Phonetics, St. Petersburg State University, 1983;
Ph.D., Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College, 1993).
Areas of interest: Acquisition of second language phonology and morphology; cognitive aspects of phonological and morphological processing in Russian as a native or second language; foreign language pedagogy.
Manel Lacorte
(Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000).
Areas of interest: second language acquisition; classroom management; L2 classroom interaction and language development; qualitative research in SLA; L2 use and identity; L2 teacher education; foreign language pedagogy; applied linguistics.
Roberta Lavine
(Ph.D., Spanish Language and Literature, Catholic University, 1983).
Areas of interest: Pedagogy; second language acquisition; curriculum design; computer-assisted language learning technology; individual differences in language learning, especially learning disabilities; languages for specific purposes.
Maria Lekic
(Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, 1983).
Areas of interest: Russian language acquisition; Russian morphology; Russian literature; teaching with technology; foreign language acquisition; testing and curriculum development.
Cynthia Martin
(Ph.D., Russian Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1990).
Areas of interest: Russian language acquisition, testing, materials development; Russian 19th and 20th century culture; acquisition of culture; advanced level language acquisition; language policy; curricular design and testing.
Alene Moyer
(Ph.D., Germanic Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, 1995).
Areas of interest: Second language phonological acquisition; age effects and critical period theory; advanced learners; sociolinguistics of German; acquisition of German as a second/foreign language; foreign language instructional approaches.
Mary Ellen Scullen
(Ph.D., Linguistics and French Linguistics, Indiana University, 1993).
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition theory; phonological acquisition; acquisition of strategic competence; phonological theory; French linguistics; second language acquisition and pedagogy; theoretical phonology.
Lindsay Yotsukura:
(Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), Ohio State University, 1997).
Areas of interest: Japanese discourse and conversation analysis; intra- and inter-cultural pragmatics, deixis, ellipsis, Japanese language acquisition and pedagogy; second/foreign language acquisition and pedagogy; computer-assisted language learning technology.
Nan Bernstein-Ratner
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
(Ed.D., Applied Psycholinguistics, Boston University, 1982).
Areas of specialization: First language acquisition in normal and abnormal populations; role of input in language learning; stuttering; parent-child interaction.
Jeffrey Bub
Department of Philosophy
(Ph.D., Philosophy, University of London, 1966).
Areas of specialization: Philosophy; philosophy of science; philosophy of physics, especially foundational problems of quantum mechanics; methodological issues in cognitive neuropsychology.
Richard Brecht
SLLC; Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
(Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1972).
Areas of specialization: Military and intelligence applications of language study; foreign language acquisition; study abroad programs; language policy; linguistic structure of Russian; syntax and semantics; foreign language acquisition.
Peter Carruthers
Department of Philosophy
(Ph.D., Philosophy, Oxford University, 1979).
Areas of specialization: Philosophy of language; philosophy of mind; philosophy of
psychology; epistemology.
Catherine Doughty
Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
(Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1988).
Areas of specialization: cognitive processes in SLA ; language aptitude; measurement of second language development and proficiency; research on second language instruction; technology and language teaching; the advanced learner.
Edward L. Fink
Department of Communication
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975).
Areas of specialization: research methods; data analysis; communication theory.
Robert Lissitz
Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation
(Ph.D., Psychology, Syracuse University, 1969).
Areas of specialization : test equating; assessment validity and evaluation.
Robert Mislevy
Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation
(Ph.D., Methodology of Behavioral Research, University of Chicago, 1981).
Areas of specialization: applications of recent developments in statistical methodology and cognitive research to practical problems in educational and psychological measurement; task-based tests of second language proficiency.
Rebecca Oxford
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
(Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1978).
Areas of Specialization: learning styles and strategies; affective factors; autonomous language learning.
Jennifer Preece
College of Information Sciences
(Ph.D., Educational Technology, Open University, United Kingdom, 1985).
Areas of Specialization: online community; human computer interaction; computer
mediated communities; internet research methods.
Deborah A. Cai
Department of Communication
(Ph.D., Communication, Michigan State University, 1994).
Areas of Specialization: intercultural communication; cross-cultural differences in cognitive processes and decision making.
Henk Haarmann
Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1993).
Areas of specialization: Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics; language aptitude; high-level language abilities.
Colin Phillips
Department of Linguistics
(Ph.D., Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996).
Areas of Specialization: theoretical linguistics; language processing; language acquisition and neurolinguistics
Grace Yeni-Komshian
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
(Ph.D., Psychology, McGill University, 1965).
Areas of Specialization: Normal language acquisition/bilingualism; psycholinguistics; speech perception; age effects in second language learning.
Mathias Frisch
Department of Philosophy
(Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1998).
Areas of Specialization: philosophy of physics; philosophy of science.
Ewa Golonka
Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
(Ph.D., Russian, Bryn Mawr College, 2000).
Areas of Specialization: metalinguistic awareness in SLA; acquisition of Russian as a foreign language.
Rochelle Newman
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
(Ph.D., Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997).
Areas of Specialization: speech perception; development of speech perception; language acquisition; word-finding errors; word recognition; speech production.
Andrea Zukowski
Department of Linguistics
(Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Boston University, 2001).
Areas of specialization: language disorders; language acquisition; sentence production.
All photographs and banners © 2007 John Grimm and/or Martin Hood. All rights reserved worldwide.
Website and template © 2007 Martin Hood. All rights reserved worldwide.