Learninglinguisticsisanimportantpartoflearningforeignlanguages.Withoutknowledgeofmorphology,itisdifficulttounderstandthemeaningofwords.Withoutknowledgeofsyntax,itisdifficulttoformpropersentences.Withoutknowledgeofphonetics,itisdifficulttopronouncenewsoundscorrectly.EvensimplyknowingthesymbolsoftheInternationalPhoneticsAlphabetcanmakelearningpronunciationseveraltimeseasier.

　　Linguisticsencompassesmanymorefieldsrelatedtolanguageingeneral,butmymajorconcentrationsareinsecondlanguageacquisition(SLA)andpedagogy.IreceivedmyBachelor'sdegreeinFrench&Linguisticsin2004andmyMaster'sdegreeinLinguistics&TeachingEnglishasaSecondLanguagein2007.IamcurrentlyworkingonaPhDinLanguages&Linguisticsandexpecttofinishmydissertationinmid2014.

　　Mymajorresearchinterestsarerelatedtotheroletextbooksplayinlanguageteachingandlearning,includingtheuseof(orlackof)realiaandinformallanguage,aswellastheteachingofvocabularywithregardstofrequencyandcorporaandtheimportanceoflisteningcomprehensionforlearningvocabulary.Obviously,I'malsointerestedintheroletechnologyplaysinlanguagelearning,especiallycomputer-assistedlanguagelearning(CALL)thatallowsformoreaudio-visualinputthantheregularclassroom.

　　Thefollowingpagesarebasedonnotesfrommyuniversitycoursesifyou'dliketolearnmoreaboutlinguisticsingeneral.

　　Linguistics101Introductiontolinguisticsforundergraduates,withamoreextensivesectiononphonologyfromagraduatecourse

　　EnglishGrammarGrammaticaltermsandexamples,verbconjugations,spellingrules,andhomophones

　　HistoryofEnglishSemesternotesfromanundergraduatecourse

　　IfyouareinterestedindoingadegreeinLinguistics,inadditiontothepagesabove,youcanreadthroughthefollowingnotes,homeworkandpapersthatIwroteformycourses(PDForDOCformat*).ThismaynotberepresentativeofallLinguisticsprograms,asonlineschoolingclassesmaybedifferent,butitwillhopefullygiveyouanideaofwhattypeofworkyoumayneedtodoinordertoobtainaLinguisticsdegree.PleasevisitApplelinguistforagreatreviewofPhDprogramsinLinguisticsifyou'restillundecidedaboutwheretodoyourdegree.

　　Undergraduate:

　　SecondLanguageAcquisitionProject1:SecondLanguageAcquisition&Age

　　SecondLanguageAcquisitionProject2:BilingualEducation

　　SecondLanguageAcquisitionGroupProject:AnalysisofPimsleurRussianProgram

　　SecondLanguageAcquisitionFinalProject:GrammarAcquisition&Pedagogy

　　LinguisticAnalysisFinalProject:Hebrew(StudyofaNon-Indo-EuropeanLanguage)

　　ComparativePhoneticsHomework:AcousticPhoneticsDefinitions

　　Graduate:

　　PhonologyNotes:PhonologicalFeatures

　　PhonologyArticleSummary:OnthestatusofonglidesinAmericanEnglishbyStuartDavisandMichaelHammond

　　PhoneticTheoryNotes:AirstreamMechanisms

　　PhoneticTheoryTermProject:DutchFricatives(Audio:Dutch.wav)

　　BiologyofLanguageNotes:AllLectures

　　BiologyofLanguageChapterSummary1:LanguageasanAdaptationtotheCognitiveNichebyStevenPinker

　　BiologyofLanguageChapterSummary2:WhataretheUniq