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.
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 a 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.
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 (additional)
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, is responsible for the Catalan Lectureship,
and serves as the co-director of the Center
for the Brain Basis of Cognition (CBBC). 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 a 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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