specialists in other departments, including the Departments of German, Spanish and Portuguese, French, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Psychology, and Neuroscience.
Listed in the sidebar, according to department affiliation, are the faculty members in Second Language Acqusition at Georgetown University. Click on a department's name to visit that department's web site. Click on a faculty member's name to read a brief description of research interests. Below, you may click on the names of faculty members to see their official faculty profiles or choose to visit their personal web pages, where applicable.
Department of Linguistics
Dr. James E. Alatis
Dr. Alatis is currently Dean Emeritus of the School of Languages and Linguistics, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Modern Greek; and Senior Advisor to the Dean of Georgetown College for International Language Programs and Research. In addition to serving as the President of the TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF) Board, Dr. Alatis serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Joint National Committee for Languages and National Council for Languages and International Studies.
Please email him at alatisj@georgetown.edu or visit his web page for more information.
Dr.
Jeff Connor-Linton
Dr. Connor-Linton is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Linguistics. His research interests include multidimensional
analysis of register variation in discourse, language assessment,
research design and statistics and cross-cultural communication.
He is currently directing a Title VI-funded grant investigating
the relation between study abroad and development of oral
proficiency in six languages.
Please email him at connorlj@georgetown.edu.
Dr. Kendall King
Dr. King is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Linguistics. Her research interests include cultural, interactional,
and sociolinguistic perspectives on second language use
and acquisition; language socialization in home, school,
and community contexts; endangered languages, language loss,
and language revitalization; and language planning and policy
perspectives on second language learners and learning.
Please email her at akk25@georgetown.edu or visit her web page for more information.
Dr.
Donna Lardiere
Dr. Lardiere is Associate Professor in the Dept.
of Linguistics. She is interested in the acquisition of
formal aspects of grammar (especially morphology and syntax);
ultimate attainment, fossilization, and developmental comparisons
between child and adult language acquisition; and the role
of linguistic theory in SLA.
Please email her at lardiere@georgetown.edu.
Dr. Alison Mackey
Dr. Mackey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. Her major research interests include second language acquisition (in particular, input and interaction), the roles of attention and working memory in second language development, and second language research methodology.
Please email her at mackeya@georgetown.edu
or visit her web
page for more information.
Dr.
Ronald Scollon, Emeritus
Dr.
Andrea Révêsz
Dr. Revesz is a visiting assistant professor for the 07-08
academic year. Her research interests lie at the interface
of second language acquisition and second language instruction,
with particular emphases on task-based language teaching
and SL/FL classroom instruction. She has previously taught
classes on second language acquisition, classroom practices,
and a practicum at Teachers College, Columbia University.
She served as co-chair of the 2006 Second Language Research
Forum (SLRF). She has obtained research support from several
sources, including grants from the TESOL International Research
Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. Dr. Revesz will teach
a range of classes in applied linguistics in Fall, 2007
and Spring, 2008 as well as interacting with students who
are interested in SLA and applied linguistics, and providing
input on research projects and designs.
Dr.
Andrea Tyler
Dr. Tyler is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics.
Her research interests include crosscultural pragmatics
and discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, writing theory
and reading theory.
Please email her at tyleran@georgetown.edu or visit her web page for more information.
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Department of German
Dr.
Heidi Byrnes
Dr. Byrnes is the George M. Roth Distinguished
Professor of German. Her research, scholarship, and teaching
focus on adult instructed second language acquisition, particularly
at the very advanced level. In her publications she has
dealt with acquisitional phenomena in all four modalities
(listening, reading, writing, and speaking), from the standpoint
of the learner and also from the standpoint of instructional
approaches, materials development, and assessment, with
a view toward teacher education, and in terms of cross-cultural
discourse. In her publications and professional work in
numerous organizations she has advocated a shift toward
a content-oriented, task-based approach that explicitly
targets high levels of literacy in a second (third) language.
Please email her at byrnesh@georgetown.edu
or visit her web
page for more information.
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Deparment of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Ronald P. Leow
Dr. Leow is an Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics and Director of Spanish Basic Language Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests include teacher education, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, attention and awareness, technology and second language learning, and reading.
Please email him at leowr@georgetown.edu.
Dr. Cristina Sanz
Dr. Sanz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and associated faculty in the Department of Linguistics. She directs the Spanish Intensive Language Program and is responsible for the Catalan Lectureship. Her research interests include the role of experience in the acquisition of non-primary languages and factors predicting successful third language acquisition by bilinguals (e.g., cognitive capacity, degree, and type of bilingualism). She performs computer-assisted research on explicitness in the input, in processing, and in knowledge.
Please email her at sanzc@georgetown.edu or visit her web page for more information.
Department of French
Dr. Guy Spielmann
Dr. Spielmann is an Associate Professor in the Deparment of French. His scholarly activities are interdisciplinary in nature, reinforcing his exploration of the relationship among culture, literature, language, and education from a semiotic perspective. This interest in language and semiotics has in turn led to frequent lecturing and consulting activities on pedagogical matters. Professor Spielmann is also currently developing a major theory on the reconceptualization of language, culture, and education as a model of complexity, with direct consequences on teaching and learning in all disciplines, as well as on the meaning of "multicultural" education.
Please email him at spielmag@georgetown.edu or visit his web page for more information.
Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures
Dr. Yoshiko Mori
Dr. Mori is an Associate Professor in the Department
of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of
Japanese Language Instruction. Her research interests
are in second language acquisition and instruction from
a psycholinguistic perspective. She is particularly interested
in issues related to second language reading and learner
perception, especially in the acquisition of kanji (i.e.,
characters borrowed from Chinese into Japanese). Her
research focuses on the effects of first language on
kanji recognition, kanji learning strategies, and the
role of metalinguistic and/or metacognitive awareness
in language learning. She is currently investigating
individual differences in vocabulary learning strategies.
Please email her at moriy@georgetown.edu or visit her web page for more information.
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Department of Psychology
Dr. Darlene Howard
Dr. Howard is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Developmental Science. Her research investigates which cognitive and neural systems decline, and which are spared, in the course of aging. Her current work focuses on implicit forms of learning and memory, i.e., those occurring without conscious awareness or intention.
Please email her at howardd@georgetown.edu or visit her web page for more information.
Department of Neuroscience
Dr. Michael T. Ullman (also associated with the Departments of Linguistics, Psychology, and Neurology)
Dr. Ullman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Director of the Brain and Language Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition. His research focuses on the neural and psychological bases of language and the relation between language, memory and motor functions. He works with developmental disorders (including developmental language and reading impairments, autism, Tourette syndrome, Williams syndrome and ADHD) and acquired brain diseases (including aphasia, amnesia, and Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases). He uses behavorial as well as neuroimaging techniques (primarily EEG/ERPs and fMRI).
Please email him at michael@georgetown.edu or visit his web page for more information.
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Last updated Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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