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Early and Emergent Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processing of Linguistic Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Language processing requires frequent resolution of conflict (e.g. temporary ambiguities, conflicting parsing principles, see Jegerski, 2012). This conflict triggers cognitive control, which has been shown to be a major ...
Interaction in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: The Effects of Interlocutor, Task, and State Anxiety
(Georgetown University, 2020)
There is an increasingly large body of research that has addressed how interaction via Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC) may support second language (L2) development (see Ziegler, 2016 for a review). Various ...
Community-based Learning in University Spanish Education: An Exploration of Student and Community Partner Outcomes
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation explores community-based learning (CBL) in university Spanish education. Although Spanish education continues to construct Spanish as a foreign language (Leeman, 2014), recent trends such as changing ...
Second Language Writing Complexity in Academic Legal Discourse: Development and Assessment under a Curricular Lens
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the past three decades, the construct of second language (L2) writing complexity has been theorized and refined in both second language acquisition (SLA) (Crossley, 2020; Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken, & Vedder, 2019; Lu, ...
Cyclicity and Linearity in Morphology: The View from Icelandic, Gã, and Kabyle
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Much work in the generative tradition assumes that the grammatical architecture consists of independent modules. A number of interesting questions arise concerning the ways in which these modules communicate with one another ...
Crosslinguistic Influence from Spanish in L3 Portuguese: The Roles of Language Background, Proficiency Level, Crosslinguistic Awareness, and Psychotypology
(Georgetown University, 2022)
While research on crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in third language (L3) learning has widely supported typological proximity as a primary determinant of CLI in L3s (e.g., Giancaspro et al., 2015; Montrul et al., 2010; ...