Robert DeKeyser

Professor of Second Language Acquisition

picture of Robert DeKeyser Address: 3104 Jiménez Hall
Telephone: (301) 405-4030
E-mail: rdk@umd.edu
FAX: (301) 314-9752
 

Areas of Research

  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Interlanguage variability
  • Individual differences in second language learning
  • Aptitude-treatment interaction
  • Cognitive psychology of language acquisition
  • Critical period phenomena
  • Monitoring processes

Selected Publications

  • Foreign language development during a semester abroad. In B. Freed (ed.), Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 104-119. (1990).
  • The effects of error correction on grammar knowledge and oral proficiency. The Modern Language Journal 77, 501-514. (1993).
  • Learning second language grammar rules: An experiment with a miniature linguistic system. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17 (379-410). (1995).
  • The differential role of comprehension and production practice. (With Karl Sokalski). Language Learning 46, 613-642. (1996).
  • Beyond explicit rule learning: Automatizing second language morphosyntax. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 19, 195-221. (1997).
  • Beyond focus on form: Cognitive perspectives on learning and practicing second language grammar. In C. Doughty & J. Williams (eds.), Focus on form in classroom language acquisition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 42-63. (1998).
  • The robustness of critical period effects in second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 22, 499-533. (2000).
  • Explaining the 'natural order of L2 morpheme acquisition' in English: A meta-analysis of multiple determinants. (With Jennifer Goldschneider). Language Learning 51, 1-50. (2001).
  • Automaticity and automatization. In P. Robinson (ed.), Cognition and second language instruction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 125-151. (2001).
  • Implicit and explicit learning. In C. Doughty & M. Long (eds.), Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell, 313-348. (2003).
  • What does the critical period really mean? (With Jenifer Larson- Hall).In J.F. Kroll & A.M.B. De Groot (eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2005).
  • What makes second-language grammar difficult? A review of issues. Language Learning 55, Supplement 1, 1-25 (2005)
  • A critique of recent arguments against the critical period hypothesis. In C. Abello-Contesse, R. Chacón-Beltrán, M. D. López-Jiménez, & M.M. Torreblanca-López (eds.), Age in L2 acquisition and teaching. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006, 49-58
  • Skill acquisition theory. In J. Williams and B. VanPatten (eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007, 97-113.
  • DeKeyser, Robert (Ed.). Practicing in a second language: Perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Situating the concept of practice. In R. DeKeyser (ed.), Practicing in a second language: Perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 1-18.
  • Study abroad as foreign language practice. In R. DeKeyser (ed.), Practicing in a second language: Perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 208-226.
  • The future of practice. In R. DeKeyser (ed.), Practicing in a second language: Perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 287-304.

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