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Dr. Rodríguez-González’s main research interests are Second Language Acquisition, Assessment of Second Language Proficiency and the use of technology to enhance second language learning (more particularly the effects of hybrid language instruction).
Her research focuses on the intersection of Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (language processing in speech perception and production tasks). The assumption she makes when studying interlanguage development and language processing is that an analysis of language use must take into account both linguistic features and the cognitive processes that are involved in word retrieval and storage. Most recently, she is collaborating with another linguist to expand our current knowledge of the Spanish phonological, morphological and syntactic properties of L2 Spanish Subjunctive. She has also recently embarked on another project about the phonological and syntactic features of Spanglish as it relates to bilingual acquisition.
In addition to her teaching and research duties, she currently serves as the Basic Language Supervisor (SPN 100-200 levels) and is a faculty member on the Graduate Studies Committee (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). She is also currently supervising research being conducted by student Kathryn Fennig (Goldman Prize Award 2007 winner) in Africa on the acquisition and L2 teaching of a Bantu language.
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