New Faculty for Fall 2009
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Assistant ProfessorForeign Languages and Literatures, SC
cnearysu@purdue.edu
Colleen Neary-Sundquist joins the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures as an Assistant Professor in the area of Second Language Acquisition. During the previous year, she was a lecturer in German in the department. She completed her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Purdue in 2008. Prior to joining Purdue, Colleen received an M.T.S. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Indiana University Bloomington. She also studied abroad in Germany with a Fulbright Scholarship.
Colleen's research interests in the area of second language acquisition include task-based language learning and teaching, corpus linguistics, and the relationship between second language acquisition research and classroom pedagogy. Her doctoral dissertation examined the use of discourse markers by learners of English and German on different language tasks, and how this related to the fluency of their language production.
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