- How do adults learn second languages?
- What happens to your first language when you learn a second language?
- How can we teach second languages more effectively?
- What impact does multilingualism have on our societies?
My research broadly deals with how languages interact within the multilingual mind. I'm currently focusing on whether and how a fully-developed adult first language system is affected by acquisition of a second language. In addition to traditional analyses of speech production, I conduct analyses of co-speech hand gestures to address this question. My work is published in journals related to second language acquisition, language and cognition, language and gesture, and language assessment.
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