About me
I am
an associate professor in the Department
of Education's Applied Linguistics Program at Concordia
University in Montréal. My research interests include psycholinguistic
aspects of second-language/bilingual processing and learning. I conduct
research on the acquisition of second-language phonology, speech perception/production,
phonological processing, and the role of attention, memory, and automaticity
in second-language processing and learning. My interests also include
the use of technology in second-language teaching and the development
of materials for classroom teaching of second-language pronunciation.
I am a member of an inter-university research team (the team’s Principal Investigator: Norman Segalowitz, Psychology/Concordia University) that is part of a larger Training and Human Resources Development Project situated at McGill University (funded by Santé Canada). Our projects in this area explore issues related to health care delivery to linguistic minority populations.
I am also a member of a research team led by Laura Collins (Education/Concordia University). Our projects explore the role of input in classroom acquisition of a second language.
Education
Ph.D. (Educational Psychology/Second-Language Acquisition), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
M.A. (Teaching English as an International Language), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
B.A. (English Philology), University of Latvia, 1996
