Teaching

I teach a variety of graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in applied linguistics/second language acquisition and French and Francophone Studies (see list below). In addition, I regularly supervise graduate student research and occasionally offer independent studies for undergraduates.

Graduate seminars

Language Variation and SLA

Sociocultural Theory and L2 Development

Interaction and L2 Development

Implicit and Explicit Language Learning and Teaching

Qualitative Methods in SLA Research

Second Language Acquisition: Theories and Research

Graduate Research Seminar

Undergraduate courses

82-415 French as an act of identity

82-415 Language, Identities, and Social Relationships in French Theatre and Film

82-305 French in its Social Contexts

82-304 The Francophone World

82-283 Language Diversity and Cultural Identity

82-201 Intermediate French I

82-101 Elementary French I

Research supervision

Graduate Student Advisor/Thesis Director (Carnegie Mellon University)

Nuria Ballesteros Soria (PhD in SLA, in progress)

Nicolas Cheadle (PhD in SLA, in progress)

Alexis Adams (PhD in SLA, in progress)

Frank Dolce (PhD in SLA, 2019)

Tianyu Sophie Qin (PhD in SLA, 2018)

Graduate Student Committee Member (Carnegie Mellon University)

María Pía Gomez-Laich, “Effects of task complexity on ESL students’ academic writing” (PhD in SLA, 2017). Thesis director/advisor: Naoko Taguchi.

Daniel Walter, “Powerful tools work well together: Combining concept-based instruction and cue training to teach German declension” (PhD in SLA, 2015). Thesis director/advisor: Brian MacWhinney.

Ashlie Henery, “Interpreting ‘real’ French: The role of expert mediation in learners’ observations and understandings of pragmatic practices while abroad” (PhD in SLA, May 2014). Thesis director/advisor: Barbara Freed.

Graduate Student Committee Member (External)

Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió, “The development of sociolinguistic competence through explicit instruction in the L2 Spanish classroom: The case of future-time expression” (PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, in progress). Thesis director/advisor: Matthew Kanwit.

Marie-Christin Kuepper, “Du or Sie? Developing sociopragmatic competence of German address forms through concept-based instruction” (MA in English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2017). Thesis director/advisor: Anne Feryok.

Laila Kharrat, “An etic analysis of orthographic variation in synchronous computer-mediated French discourse: A comparative study of twentysomethings and fiftysomethings” (MA in French, University of North Texas, 2013). Thesis director/advisor: Lawrence Williams.

Undergraduate Research Supervision

Mary Catherine Devine. Language policy and identity: ‘La loi Toubon’ and ‘la Charte de la langue française’. Senior honors thesis. Completed May 2017.

Meredith Crenshaw. Analysis of linguistic variation in French-language comics with implications for L2 teaching. Paper presented at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, March 1-3, 2013. Toronto, Canada.

Christa Orvik. Translation of entertainment mediate: Preservation of humor through subtitling. Paper presented at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, March 1-3, 2013. Toronto, Canada.

Catharine Youngs. Gesture, language learning, and pedagogical implications. Paper presented at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, March 1-3, 2013. Toronto, Canada.