Faculty Publications, Conference Papers and Invited Talks
How do people acquire languages beyond their first? What processes and factors impact their abilities to read, write, comprehend and speak additional languages? What roles do nondominant languages play in societies/cultures around the world?
Key aspects of this research include literacy development in multiple languages, social dimensions of learning a second language (context, identity, culture), instruction and learning of second languages (classroom-based research, program evaluation, impact of instruction on learning and cognitive aspects of learning a second language (processing, memory).
Faculty Publications
Uju Anya
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition; Director of Language Program Administration Certificate Program
Examining Materials and Instruction in the Practice of Critical Race Pedagogy for World Language Teaching
Anya, U. (2024). Examining Materials and Instruction in the Practice of Critical Race Pedagogy for World Language Teaching. In R. Kubota & S. Motha (eds). Race, Racism, and Antiracism in Language Education, pp. 101-124, Routledge.
Katharine Burns
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Hispanic Studies
Challenging standard language ideology in L2 learning contexts for endangered and minority languages
Burns, K. (2025). Challenging standard language ideology in L2 learning contexts for endangered and minority languages. In W. Wei & J. Schnell (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages, pp. 274–287, Routledge.
Sébastien Dubreil
Teaching Professor of Global French Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Technology-Enhanced Learning
Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape
Dubreil S., Malinowski, D., & Maxim, H. H. (Eds.) (2023). Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape. Edited open access digital volume. Springer Educational Linguistics Series (Vol. 62). New York: Springer Publishing.
Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon
Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese Studies
Language assistance and policies for bilingual mental health
Fujinaga-Gordon, Kiyono, Joshua H. Gordon, and Aya Williams. (in press) Language assistance and policies for bilingual mental health. In Bilingualism, Emotion & Mental Health. New Jersey: Wiley.
Sanghee Kang
Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition, English as a Second Language and Korean Studies
Examining the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making task outcomes: The role of proficiency, narrative ability, digital literacy, and motivation
Kang, S., & Kim, Y. (2024). Examining the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making task
outcomes: The role of proficiency, narrative ability, digital literacy, and motivation. Language Teaching Research, 28(6), 2326-2353.
Seth Wiener
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies;
Director of Graduate Studies
Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom
Wiener, S., Murphy, T. K., & Holt, L. L. (In press). Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom. Language Learning.
Rémi A. van Compernolle
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Global French Studies;
Associate Department Head
Concept-based language instruction: Principles and classroom applications
van Compernolle, R. A. (Ed.). (2025). Concept-based language instruction: Principles and classroom applications. Special issue of Language & Sociocultural Theory, 10(2).
Conference Papers
Anya, U. (2024, March 16). Contestations of US-centered categorizations of race by African Americans learning Portuguese in Brazil [paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Houston, Texas.
Bramlett, A. A., Brown, B., Dueck, J., & Wiener, S. (2024). Measuring music and prosody: Accounting for variation in non-native speech discrimination with working memory, specialized music skills, and music background. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 482–486).
Burns, K.E., and Quan, T. (2025, September). The ideological positioning of heritage language learners in U.S.-based world language teacher preparation textbooks [paper presentation]. British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Dubreil, S. (2023, November). The Effectiveness of Immersive Technology to Engage with Cultural Bias [paper presentation]. American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, Chicago, Illinois.
Kang, S. (2025, March). Chatbot-assisted collaboration tasks and learner characteristics in the alignment-driven learning: Comparing primes and recasts [paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Matsushita, T., Fujinaga-Gordon, K., Takedomi, Y., Eto, Y., Kakiyama, R., Katayama, T., Koda, E., & Suda, T. (2022, August 23–25).複数テキストの利用による問いの広がりと深まり: 批判的思考、創造的思考の育成を目指して [Expanding and deepening questions through the use of multiple texts: Toward fostering critical and creative thinking] [paper presentation]. Proceedings of the 17th Japan Association for Developmental Education Conference, Aichi University, Nagoya, Japan.
van Compernolle, R. A. (2025, March). Developing L2 indexical capacity [paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Walker, E., and Youngs, B. (2025, May 31). Student prompting patterns when using AI to read [paper presentation]. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference, San Diego, California.
Invited Talks
Author, A. A. (Year, Month). Title of talk [Invited talk]. Conference/Organization Name, Location.
Anya, U. (2024, September 6). Applied linguistics for social justice: Critical perspectives on teaching, research, and civic engagement [Keynote]. British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Essex, Colchester, England.
Burns, K. (2025, May 1). Locating and Localizing Spanish in the U.S.: Discursive and ideological constructions of local varieties of Spanish as mediated by US-based L2 Spanish textbooks [Invited talk]. Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Dubreil, S. (2025, April). Paysage Linguistique, Multimodalité et Pédagogie Sociale : De la rue au cours de FLE [Invited lecture]. Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Fujinaga-Gordon, K., and Ohkuma, M. (2025, February 6). How to categorize questions: processes and frameworks for questions generation and clarification [Invited talk]. The National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, Online.
van Compernolle, R. A. (2022, September 12). Technology, mediation, and the intersection of L2 pragmatics research, teaching, and assessment [Plenary]. Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, Online.
Wiener, S. (2025, March 23). What We Know (and Still Don't Know) about L2 Mandarin Speech Learning [Keynote]. 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguisitics, Pomona College, Claremont, California.
Youngs, B. (2019). Interaction in Blended Learning [Invited talk]. National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, Hawaiʻi.