A5027193462- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Mind wandering and attention
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Education and Technology Integration
University of Maryland, College Park
2013-2021
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
2020
Pennsylvania State University
2007-2019
Institute for Advanced Study
2011-2016
University of Mary
2016
Adults are notoriously poor second-language (L2) learners. A context that enables successful L2 acquisition is language immersion. In this study, we investigated the effects of immersion learning for a group university students studying abroad in Spain. Our interest was effect on native (L1), English. We tested hypothesis benefits as result attenuated influence L1. Participants were English-speaking learners Spanish who either immersed while living Spain or exposed to classroom only....
Second language acquisition researchers often face particular challenges when attempting to generalize study findings the wider learner population. For example, learners constitute a heterogeneous group, and it is not always clear how study's may other individuals who differ in terms of background proficiency, among many factors. In this paper, we provide an overview mixed‐effects models can be used help overcome these issues field second acquisition. We benefits practical example analyses...
Few adult second language (L2) learners successfully attain high‐level proficiency. Although decades of research on beginning to intermediate stages L2 learning have identified a number predictors the rate acquisition, little has examined factors relevant predicting very high levels The current study, conducted in United States, was designed examine potential cognitive successful advanced proficiency levels. Participants were adults with varying degrees success learning, including critical...
This study investigated the role of domain-general inhibitory control in trilingual speech production. Taking an individual differences approach, we examined relationship between performance on a non-linguistic measure (the Simon task) and multilingual language switching task for group fifty-six native English (L1) speakers learning French (L2) Spanish (L3). Better was related to reduced switch costs, but only when into or out more dominant L1, where has been theorized be most important...
Many recent studies demonstrate that both languages are active when bilinguals and second language (L2) learners reading, listening, or speaking one only. The parallel activity of the two has been hypothesized to create competition must be resolved. Models bilingual lexical access have proposed an inhibitory control mechanism effectively limit attention intended (e.g., Green, 1998). Critically, other research suggests a lifetime experience as negotiating across confers set benefits cognitive...
The role of executive functioning in second language (L2) aptitude remains unclear. Whereas some studies report a relationship between working memory (WM) and L2 learning, others have argued against this association. Similarly, being bilingual appears to benefit inhibitory control, individual differences control are related online processing. current longitudinal study examines whether these two components predict learning gains an classroom context using pretest/posttest design. We assessed...
Considerable work has used language-switching tasks to investigate how bilinguals manage competition between languages. Language-switching costs have been argued reflect persisting inhibition or activation of a non-target language. However, these might instead the use bivalent stimuli (i.e. pictures digits that can be responded in either language). That is, may simply cost selecting task-appropriate response for given item and so not reflective bilingual lexical access [Finkbeiner, M.,...
Studies of bilingual speech production suggest that different executive functions (EFs) contribute to the cognitive control language production. However, no study has simultaneously examined relationship between EFs and during online The current individual differences in three (working memory updating, inhibitory control, task-set switching) their with performance a trilingual language-switching task for group forty-seven native English (L1) speakers learning French (L2) Spanish (L3)....
English learners (ELs) in K–12 schools must acquire while simultaneously mastering content knowledge. Educational technology may support students’ learning through the affordance of individualized language practice. The current randomized controlled trial intervention study examined effects Rosetta Stone Foundations software on among middle school ELs. took place Grades 6 to 8 an urban U.S. district ( N = 221). Predictors interest included time testing (pretest vs. posttest) and usage,...
Experimental speech research often makes use of complex experimental designs, but even when multiple factors are manipulated, measured outcomes may be influenced by non-controlled and incompletely controlled factors. Multilevel models (of which mixed-effect a special case) enable unified analysis the relationships between, on one hand, trial-level data and, other, potentially important variables. Fitted multilevel allow us to draw inferences simultaneously about group-level effects...
Experimental speech research often makes use of complex experimental designs, but even when multiple factors are manipulated, measured outcomes may be influenced by non-controlled and incompletely controlled factors. Multilevel models (of which mixed-effect a special case) enable unified analysis the relationships between, on one hand, trial-level data and, other, potentially important variables. Fitted multilevel allow us to draw inferences simultaneously about group-level effects...