Research & Teaching Interests
- Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Language & Cognition, Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Technology for language teaching & learning
My academic interests include Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language learners, bilingual representation, syntax, and language processing. I am particularly interested in analyzing grammatical development in multilingual speakers (especially in heritage and adult L2 speakers) with the objective of understanding how linguistic features are acquired and (re-)assembled. I also examine how this knowledge can be incorporated into sound pedagogical practices in the classroom and with a variety of technological tools.
Research Interests:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Heritage Learners
- Optionality
- Bilingual Language Representation
- Applied Linguistics & Language Instruction
- Language Processing
- Language teaching & technology
Current individual projects
- El procesamiento de género con sustantivos inventados: sintaxis, morfología y la lengua materna / Gender processing with nonce nouns: syntax, morphology, and the mother tongue
- Grammatical Gender Assignment by Heritage Speakers
- Pedagogical materials for grammatical gender assignment
Dr. Faber’s primary research focus is bilingualism and second language acquisition; she is especially interested in examining how the languages of multilingual speakers interact in the brain and what effect this has on comprehension and production of a speaker’s various languages.
For instance, Dr. Faber conducted a study on the Asturian language spoken in the north of Spain, which has a peculiar agreement feature that exists on non-countable nouns and is present on post-nominal adjectives and pronouns.
On the applied side of the coin, Dr. Faber is interested in examining how we can use what we know about the cognitive processes of language acquisition and bilingualism in order to create didactic materials to support language learning and maintenance.
