Bill VanPatten is a Professor of Spanish & Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. His research interests include parsing and processing, input processing, the interface between morphology and syntax, and instructed SLA. He is the author or co-author of 8 eight books and almost 100 articles. He has also authored Spanish and French language textbooks. This interview was conducted on March 19, 2012. For more information about Dr. VanPatten, please visit his website: https://sites.google.com/site/bvpsla/.