My areas of interest include:
Bilingualism (perception and production): focus on Spanish-Arabic & Spanish-English in contact.
Morphological processing: structure of the L2 mental lexicon.
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching: focus on Heritage Language Learning and Teaching.
Translation Studies and Language Program Development, Direction and Evaluation.
El Harrak, B & Simonet. Morphological processing in Spanish-English bilinguals.
El Harrak, B & Simonet. Stress Processing in Moroccan Arabic-Spanish bilinguals.
Simonet, M; Schertz, J.; El Harrak, B.; Abdennebi, M. Perceptual categorization of English laryngeal contrasts by L1 Arabic L2 English learner.
Simonet, El Harrak & Abdennebi (2023). Perception of English Stop Voicing Contrast by L1 Arabic L2 English Experienced Learners. 14th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. Purdue University (September, 6th-8th, 2023).
Simonet, El Harrak & Abdennebi (2023). Perception of English Stop Voicing Contrast by L1 Arabic L2 English Experienced Learners. 32nd. Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture. The University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona (February 18th-19th, 2022).
El Harrak (2022). How close is the future? Variation in the acquisition of Spanish Synthetic future in Arabic and Portuguese Speakers Hispanic Working Group Colloquium. The University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.
El Harrak (2020). La interpretación de lenguas de signos española en canciones. 30th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture. The University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. (February 28-29, 2020).
El Harrak (2018). El arte de interpretar (LSE). Investigar en Femenino. VI Edición. Universidad de Alicante. (March, 7th, 2018).