The Second Language Studies Research Group brings together faculty, graduate, and undergraduate researchers focused on many different issues related to second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingual communities. Navigate through the links to learn more about the individuals that form our community. (Under Construction)
Faculty
Maria M. Arredondo
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Sciences Director of the ChiLDS Lab
Email: maria.arredondo@austin.utexas.edu
Research interests: child bilingualism, infancy, fNIRS neuroimaging, executive function, heritage language learners, cognitive development, socio-cultural contexts
David Birdsong
Professor, French Linguistics
SLS Planning Committee
E-mail: birdsong@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, French linguistics
Carl Blyth
Associate Professor, French Linguistics
SLS Planning Committee
Director of COERLL
E-mail: cblyth@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Instructional Technology, Corpus Linguistics, Pedagogical Grammar, French Sociolinguistics, Discourse studies
Hans Boas
Professor, Germanic Studies
Director of the Texas German Dialect Project
E-mail: hcb@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Germanic Linguistics, Pedagogical Construction Grammar
Nick Henry
Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies
SLS Planning Committee
Director of the SLA and Bilingualism (SLAB) Lab
E-mail: nhenry@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: L2 Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Processing Instruction, Language Pedagogy, Germanic Linguistics.
Dale Koike
Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
SLS Planning Committee
E-mail: d.koike@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Pragmatics in Native and Non-native Talk; L2 and L3 Acquisition; Interaction in SLA; Heritage Language Learners
Charlie Nagle
Associate Professor, Spanish and Applied Linguistics
SLS Planning Committee
E-mail: cnagle@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: L2 acquisition, L2 speech learning, speech perception and production, individual differences, quantitative research methods, phonetics and phonology, acoustic phonetics
Graduate Students
Shelby Bruun
Ph.D. student, Hispanic Linguistics
SLS Planning Committee
Email: sbruun@utexas.edu
Research interests: Second Language Acquisition, Psychoacoustics, speech sound learning, speech perception and production, individual differences, research methods
Ashton Carter
Ph.D. student, French Linguistics
Email: acarte28@utexas.edu
Research interests: L2 Awareness and Meta-Awareness, L2 Pragmatics, Discourse Markers, Individual Learner Differences, Sociolinguistics, Indexicality, Computer-Mediated Communication
Gene [ʒənə] Ferrier-Rainey
Graduate student, French Linguistics
Email: ferrierraineygene@utexas.edu
Research interests: Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pragmatics, Intercultural communication
Karoline Kiefel
Ph.D. Candidate, Germanic Studies
Email: karolinekiefel@utexas.edu
Research interests: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, L2 Motivation, Assessment
Víctor Garre León
Ph.D. Candidate, Hispanic Linguistics
Email: vgarre@utexas.edu
Research interests: Second Language Acquisition, L2 and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interaction and Discourse Studies, Applied Linguistics
Nafal Ossandón Hostens
Graduate student, Germanic Studies
Email: nafal@utexas.edu
Research interests: Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Language Assessment, (Intelligent) Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Natural Language Processing
Liron Shlesinger
Graduate student, French Linguistics
Email: lirons@utexas.edu
Research interests:Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics/Phonology
Emily Tummons
Graduate student, Curriculum & Instruction (University of Kansas)
Email: emilyt@ku.edu
Research interests:Applied Linguistics, Materials Development, Second Language Acquisition
Alumni
Matthias Warmuth
Ph.D. Candidate, Germanic Linguistics
Email: matthiaswarmuth@utexas.edu
Research interests: Heritage Languages, Bilingual Phonology, SLA, Language Attrition, Speaker Identity