Welcome to my website!

You are invited to download numerous writings of mine (see Publications). If the publication that you wish to read is not downloadable, it is available upon e-mail request. I also post the PowerPoints for my conference presentations as well (see Presentations). I have edited this section on my Projects so that they are grouped according to general area of focus. If you want more information on any of these project areas, please feel free to contact me by email.

I recently added a section called "Instruments" (under Publications) where I posted measures used in styles, strategies, and motivation studies.

My address: 1850 Alice Street Apt. 613, Oakland, CA 94612

email: adcohen@umn.edu  /  Website: https://z.umn.edu/adcohen

MY CURRENT PROJECTS:

1. My biggest project at present is to produce a third edition of Strategies in learning and using a second language. Abingdon, England: Routledge. The 2nd edition appeared in 2011. Isobel Wang is my co-author now. There is a lot to do, especially since the are committed to producing this revised version as of July.

2. I am acting as a consultant for a colleague coordinating a K-8 Spanish immersion program in Missoula, Montana. Since until now the children have not become comfortable speakers of Spanish, I have recommended that they have a dual track model where kids who really want to stick to Spanish do so, and those that prefer to respond in English be permitted to do so.

3. I have also created a webpage, "performing L2 pragmatics," in a website maintained by my colleague Cesar Felix-Brasdefer at Indiana University, and have hired a graduate student in computer sciences to assist me in making the webpage state-of-the-art.

4. I am doing a research project with a colleague in Saudi Arabia on test taking strategies. The project involves using AI  to coach his grad students at King Faisal U.to respond to questions after a brief talk as a test of their speaking ability. The rationale is that whereas respondents can memorize short talks, they need spontaneous oral language to respond meaningfully to challenging questions.

5. Isobel Wang and I are conducting a study of vocabulary strategy instruction with Argentine teachers of English at the elementary and secondary levels (through zoom), and have a plan to expand it to similar teachers in Italy and Japan.

6. Ernesto Macaro and I are revising a chapter that we wrote in 2010 on how SLA research methods actually appear in studies in the literature: Cohen, A. D. & Macaro, E. (2010). Research methods in second language acquisition. In E. Macaro (Ed.), The Bloomsbury companion to second language acquisition (pp. 107-133). NY, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.