Contributions to Books
Individual Differences: Age, Sex, Working Memory, and Prior Knowledge (with Christina Sanz and C A. Stafford), Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Methods, Theory and Practice (2005)
Winner of the 2006 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Award from the Modern Language Association How do...
Articles
Optimizing Language Instruction: Matters of Explicitness, Practice, and Cue Learning (with Georgetown University), Language Learning (2012)
Input exposure is essential for nonprimary language learning, but the importance of explicit instruction and...
An Experimental Study of Early L3 Development: Age, Bilinguialism and Classroom Exposure (with Catherine A. Stafford and Chrstina Stanz), International Journal of Multilingualism (2012)
This research investigated Spanish–English bilingual adults' initial learning of a third language (L3), Latin, comparing...
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage Versus Composition (with Matthew P. Gelfand, Christina Sanz, and Michael T. Ullman), Language Learning (2010)
This study examines the storage versus composition of Spanish inflected verbal forms in first language...
Concurrent Verbalizations, Pedagogical Conditions, and Reactivity: Two CALL Studies (with Christina Sanz, Hui-Ju Lin, and Catherine A. Stafford), Language Learning (2009)
The article summarizes results from two experimental studies on reactivity. In the first experiment, 24...
Processing Instruction and Meaningful Output-Based Instruction: Effects on Second Language Development (with Kara Morgan-Short), Studies in Language Acquisition (2006)
This study investigates the effects of meaningful input- and output-based practice on SLA. First-semester Spanish...
Presentations
Spanish Heritage Language Processing: An ERP Study (with K Morgan-Short, K Potowski, and L Bartlett), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) (2012)
Assessment of Proficiency through the Elicited Imitation Task, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) (2012)
Heritage Spanish Speakers’ Linguistic Knowledge and Processing: Evidence from across linguistic domains (with K Morgan-Short and K Potowski), American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (2012)
The “Plinko” Principle and Language Programs: Designing Non-Linear Hybrid Learning Environments and Desiderata for Implementation (with D Canfield, S Dubreil, J Pettigrew, and D Young), Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL): The role of CALL in hybrid and online language courses (2010)