About
My research interests are in the area of Second Language Acquisition, particularly L2 Phonology and the development of L2 reading, listening and speaking proficiency. I am committed to research-led teaching and also a strong proponent of community engagement and the transfer of knowledge generated within the academy to society at large. For the past few years I have worked actively with the public school system in Utah as it has rolled out school dual language immersion programs in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and most recently Russian. For the latter I have consulted on translation of the mathematics curriculum and selection of a literacy program from among those used in Russian primary schools.
In my spare time, I ski, hike, read mystery novels and travel to challenging places. Education
PhD Slavic Linguistics, University of Toronto, 1993. Projects
I am co-creator of the Multilingual Spoken Second Language (MuSSeL) learner corpus. When completed, the corpus will be freely-available on-line, and contain approximately 18,000 spoken texts produced by 1,800 second language (L2) learners of six languages, spanning multiple proficiency levels, ages, and contexts of learning.
