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- Latin American & Iberian Studies
- Chicana/o Studies
Spanish-language Media, Radio and Sound Practices, Language Politics, Migration and Masculinity, Latino/a popular culture. Latino Popular Culture.
- Education
Second language acquisition, L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition, intercultural exchange, computer-assisted language learning, teaching and learning with digital media.
- Spanish and Portuguese
Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition; Written Translation; Oral Interpreting; Bilingualism; Heritage Languages and Languages of Limited Diffusion; Second Language Acquisition; Study AbroadÂ
- Writing Program
Qualitative/ethnographic studies, business writing, technical writing, scientific writing, argumentation, knowledge ecologies, collaboration, multimedia communication.
- Spanish & Portuguese
- Director of Applied Linguistics Emphasis
Second language acquisition, language teaching methods and pedagogy, Spanish as a heritage language.
- Germanic & Slavic Studies
Slavic linguistics, discourse, language acquisition, language and gender, folklore, women in Russian and East European society and literature.
- French & Italian
- Director of French Language Program
Foreign language acquisition; cognitive aspects of foreign language learning; transition from language to literature study; foreign language writing.
- East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Historical Chinese linguistics (grammar and lexicon), applied linguistics (language teaching theory and methodology, context and culture in language learning, and the use of computers in teaching foreign languages.