Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research

Tania Ionin is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research expertise is in second language acquisition of semantics, and in experimental semantics more generally. She has taught courses in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, research design and methodology for linguists, and pedagogical English grammar, among other subjects.

Silvina Montrul is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and directs the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab. Her research focuses on linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition and bilingualism – in particular, syntax, semantics, and morphology – and on language acquisition in heritage speakers. She regularly teaches courses in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and the structure of Spanish.