Research Areas
- Second language acquisition
- Acquisition of socio-stylistic variation
- Second language instruction and curriculum design
- Language in media
My research interests stem from my experiences teaching language in many environments from French public schools, to language immersion camps to American high schools and universities. I am interested in the processes of second language acquisition, particularly the acquisition of sociolinguistic phenomena such as stylistic variation. I also enjoy working in curriculum development, in particular, incorporating target language media in the classroom with a goal of exposing learners to stylistic and geographic variation.
