Central honors Admissions Director Larry Hall with Distinguished Service Award
Professor in Applied Linguistics
English
Visiting Professor in Linguistics, Yale University
Sabbatical: Fall 20206-Spring 2027
Office
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
W401-40
Monday
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Wednesday
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Or by appointment
Biography
My research asks how languages encode meaning, how multilingual people acquire and use them, and how linguistic research can support communities engaged in documentation, reclamation, education, and policy. I focus explicitly on minoritized languages: Signed and spoken Indigenous languages.
Education
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
University of Central Missouri
1999
Areas of Expertise
Sign Linguistics (syntax, semantics), Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition
Publications, Research & Presentations
See my personal page and the CV
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INTERESTS
- Formal properties (syntax/semantics)
- Sign Languages (e.g. ASL)
- Languages with, vs. languages without, definite articles
- Anaphoric expressions (pronouns and ellipsis)
- Evidentiality
- Nominal semantics
- Multilingualism
- Simultaneous vs. sequential
- Unimodal vs. bimodal
- Code-switching and transfer
- 2L1A, L2A, Heritage
- Language policy
- L2 learning during K-12
- Endangered language development
- Learning of English by individuals whose L1 is a Sign Language
- Language education for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing
- Disability and language
- Indigenous Languages
- Language documentation/reclamation
- Ecuadorian Sign Language: Corpus, Syntax, Family Language Policy
- At the interface of Disability and Indigenous Language Reclamation in language pedagogy
NSF PROJECT: Indigenous languages and COVID-19 https://sites.google.com/view/saipm-covid19/home
Memberships & Affiliations
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA) o Committee on Diversity in Linguistics. Travel Awards, co-Chair.
- Program Committee
- Language and Policy Subcommittee
- Language Revitalization Subcommittee
- Sign Language Linguistic Society
- American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Association for Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International; Regional
- Higher Educators as Advocates for Language Learners (HEALL), CT
- Bilingualism Matters (BM)
Courses Taught
Central Connecticut State University:
- Introduction to Linguistics (required for all English and Education majors; undergraduate): LING 200
- Introduction to Linguistic Diversity: Language Endangerment and Revitalization (required for all English majors; undergraduate): LING 230
- Language Acquisition (required for all English Education majors; undergraduate): LING 300
- Methods in TESOL I (graduate): LING 406/506
- Methods in TESOL II (graduate): LING 596
- Studies in Second Language Composition (graduate): LING 433/533
- Second Language Assessment (graduate): LING 435/535
- Issues in Multilingualism and Bilingual Education (graduate): LING 437/537
- Content-based Language Instruction (graduate): LING 438/538
- Research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (graduate): LING 598
- Student Teacher supervision in TESOL (post-baccalaureate): EDSC 412
- English Language Learners in a Content Classroom (graduate): LING 521
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition (graduate): LING 407/507
- Applied Linguistics Internship: LING 450/550
- Topics in Linguistics: LING 430 (undergraduate) / LING 530 (graduate)
- Issues in Spanish-English bilingualism
- Sign language acquisition
- Introduction to Semantics
- Issues in Biliteracy
- ...
Elsewhere: English as an Additional Language (all levels and across domains, including TOEFL prep)
- University of Central Missouri
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City-Metropolitan Community Colleges (Pennvalley)
- City School #24 (K-12), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine