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Announcements:
Visiting Faculty in SLA in the Department of Linguistics:
Professor Rod
Ellis, from the University of Auckland will teach LING-494
Individual Differences in Second Language Learning in
Fall 2008, and Dr. Patrick Rebuschat
will be a visiting assistant professor for the 08-09 academic
year, and will teach five SLA-related classes.
Professor Heidi
Byrnes (German) will be President of AAAL in 2010-11
and professor Jeff Connor-Linton (Linguistics) is the AAAL
2009 conference chair and will be President in 2009-10.
Professor
Cristina Sanz wins Mildenberger prize for edited book on
second language learning with contributions from Georgetown
colleagues.
Professors
Kendall King and Alison Mackey publish popular interest
book on child second language learning with HarperCollins.
Areas of study for SLA at Georgetown University include:
- Applied cognitive linguistics
- Approaches and methodologies of second language teaching
- Bilingualism
- Brain imaging and the neurobiology of SLA
- Cognitive variables in SLA
- Curriculum construction
- Discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching
- Environmental variation in SLA, including social factors
- Generative approaches to SLA
- Individual differences in SLA
- Input, interaction and SLA
- Instructed SLA
- Models of interlanguage systems
- Psycholinguistics
- Reading, writing and SLA
- Research methodologies in SLA
- Second language assessment practices
- Second language classroom contexts
- SLA and the advanced learner
- Task-based language learning and teaching
- Theoretical issues in SLA
A number of different programs at Georgetown University
offer opportunities to take classes and carry out research
in SLA as part of a range of degrees. Graduate certificates,
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master
of Arts in Teaching, and Doctorate in Philosophy degree
programs are all offered through different departments.
Georgetown University also has a wide variety of research
programs, established annual conferences, and interest groups.
Contributing to the opportunities for interdisciplinary
research collaborations and coursework are the Interdisciplinary
Program in Neuroscience,
the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive
Science and the Center
for the Brain Basis of Cognition (CBBC).
Students who study at Georgetown University have access
to a diverse range of SLA research opportunities, including
the many private and governmental research institutions
in languages and linguistics in the Washington, DC metropolitan
area. For example, many Georgetown SLA students work on
a range of different projects during semesters and breaks
at the Center
for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC.
Georgetown University is also a member of the Consortium
of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area,
and students may take classes at any of the other eleven
institutions in the consortium and have the credits count
towards their Georgetown degrees.
If you have questions about the SLA at Georgetown Web site,
please email the SLA
Webmaster. If you have questions about specific programs,
please email the departments.
Last updated Friday, 30 May, 2008
Patrick will finalize
his PhD this summer at the Research Centre for English &
Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. His
doctoral research investigated the implicit learning of
syntactic rules, i.e. how humans come to acquire syntactic
knowledge incidentally and without awareness of the rules
they have acquired. In addition to his interest in implicit
learning processes, Patrick has also been conducting research
on the cognitive basis of language and music. He collaborates
with colleagues from the Centre for Music & Science at Cambridge,
comparing the learning of linguistic and musical structures.
In 2006-07, he co-organized an international conference
on "Language and Music as Cognitive Systems", which focused
on the cognitive, neural and evolutionary aspects of language
and music, and he is currently editing a selection of the
talks for publication by Oxford University Press. His other
research interests include modularity in learning, Artificial
Grammar Learning, the role of grammatical complexity in
learning, and connectionist modelling of language acquisition.
Patrick completed an MPhil degree in English & Applied Linguistics
at the University of Cambridge in 2005. Before moving to
the UK, Patrick was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
and a Visiting Academic at the University of Auckland. He
also pursued graduate studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and the University of Kassel, where he was
awarded an MA in Applied Linguistics. As an undergraduate,
Patrick read Modern Languages & Literatures at the University
of Lisbon and the University of Göttingen. His prior teaching
experience includes classes at Harvard University, UC Santa
Barbara and at the University of Göttingen.
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