LYNN SANTELMANN, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics
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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

 

• Human Subjects Information
  • SOAL Human Subjects Presentation (powerpoint slide show)
  • Examples of human subjects proposals (used with permission. Thank you Miranda, Betsy & Nate!) These are all in Adobe Acrobat format.
• Classroom Observation Example -- Miranda Novash
• Classroom Materials Example -- Betsy Kraft
• Non-classroom study -- Nate Halloran
• Sample model consent form (with recording) 
• Sample model consent form for anonymous surveys (no signature)

Teaching Related Materials

Improving Your Syllabus: Developing a good syllabus and making it learner centered
Focus on Faculty Presentation, September 19, 2007

• Sample Course Syllabi
• How-to-Guides

• How to read research
• How to critique
• Outline for research proposals (from Psycholinguistics, but applies to many kinds of research)
• Resources on how to write a literature review
• How to reverse outline

• Verb Primer
• IPA Bingo from Cascadilla Press

 

Research Overview

The primary focus of my research is on psycholinguistic approaches to childhood language acquisition (both first and second), with an interest in adult second language acquisition as well. I am particularly interested in how individuals acquire the structure of their language and the relationship between working memory and language acquisition. I have a secondary interest in the general scholarship of teaching, and am interested in pursuing questions of how individuals learn to structure information. Much of my research is interdisciplinary and combines techniques and information from linguistics, psychology, communication disorders and education.

Research Interests

• First language acquisition
• Cross-linguistic acquisition of sentence structure
• Learning of morphology and morphological relationships
• Infant speech perception and language learning
• Psycholinguistics
• Adult language learning (2nd language learning)
• Adult language processing
• Language Disorders
• Comparative Study of Syntax

Teaching Overview

For teaching, my primary interests lie in the area of language acquisition, psycholinguistics and linguistic theory. I seek to equip students with tools which they can use to undertake their own analysis of issues or data. I also strive to have students connect theory with data and see how the two inform each other. Finally, I wish to demystify the academic and research process for students and to help students become comfortable with producing forms of analysis and writing used in the field of linguistics.

Teaching Interests

• Child Language Acquisition
• Psycholinguistics
• Linguistic Theory
• Syntax
• Morphology
• Second Language Acquisition
• Structure and History of the Germanic Languages: English, German, Swedish