Published Work

As a language researcher, I am very interested in how adults learn to vary what they say in a second or non-native languages. This kind of research blurs the line between two subfields of linguistics: second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. I'm also interested in how adult learners develop pronunciation in a second language, how study abroad facilitates second language learning, and task-based language teaching.
Books and edited collections Variation in second languages
  • Classroom learners’ acquisition of the Spanish copula with adjectives: The case of Korean learners (2021, SSLA)
  • The role of individual characteristics in the acquisition of Spanish copula choice: The case of Korean learners (2021)
  • Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking (2018), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin, Aarnes Gudmestad, Matthew Kanwit, Bret Linford, Lauren Schmidt, and Megan Solon
  • Spanish second language acquisition across the globe: What future research on non-English speaking learners will tell us (2018, Hispania), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin
  • Task complexity, language-related episodes, and production of L2 Spanish vowels (2017, SSLA), co-authored with Megan Solon and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
  • Estas rimas son pa’ ti: Exploring learners’ comprehension of Spanish language music containing dialectal features (2017, WPLCLE), co-authored with Megan Harsh
  • Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish: A closer look at independent and mediating effects (2016), co-authored with Bret Linford, Megan Solon, Melissa Whatley, and Kimberly Geeslin
  • Measuring lexical frequency: Comparison groups and subject expression in L2 Spanish (2016), co-authored with Bret Linford, Megan Solon, and Kimberly Geeslin
  • The development and use of the Spanish copula with adjectives by Korean-speaking learners (2015), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin
  • The L2 development of subject form variation in Spanish: The individual vs. the group (2013), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin, Bret Linford, Stephen Fafulas, and Manuel Díaz-Campos
Study abroad
  • Sociolinguistic competence among heritage speakers of Spanish abroad: Key findings, critical gaps, and contributions to variation theory (2021), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin, Aarnes Gudmestad, Maria Hasler-Barker, Matthew Kanwit, and Megan Solon
  • The impact of a short-term stay abroad on L2 Spanish syntactic complexity development in narratives (2021, Study Abroad Research in SLA and International Education), co-authored with Megan Solon
  • Acquisition of phonetics and phonology abroad: What we know and how (2018), co-authored with Megan Solon
  • Context of learning and second language development of Spanish vowels (2018, SHLL), co-authored with Megan Solon and Silvina Bongiovanni
  • The effect of short-term study abroad on second language Spanish phonetic development (2015, SHLL), co-authored with Silvina Bongiovanni, Megan Solon, and Erik Willis
Classroom-based research
  • Examining the role of instructor first language in classroom-based oral input (2020), co-authored with Kimberly Geeslin
  • Teaching tip: Task design for second language Spanish fluency development (2019), co-authored with Lorena Alarcon and Sergio Ruíz-Pérez)
  • Examining multifaceted sources of input: Variationist and usage-based approaches to understanding the L2 classroom (2018), co-authored with Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Kimberly Geeslin, Danielle Daidone, Bret Linford, Ian Michalski, and Megan Solon
  • Linguistic variation in instructor provision of oral input (2017), co-authored with Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Kimberly Geeslin, and Danielle Daidone
  • Investigating the relationship between instructor research training and pronunciation-related instruction and oral corrective feedback (2017)
  • Comparing interaction and use of space in innovative and traditional Spanish FL classrooms (2015, Hispania), co-authored with Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and Megan Solon
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