Grammar is in the BRAIN, not on a piece of paper - Tania Ionin & Silvina Montrul
Grammar instruction or grammar learning? We dive into this with today's guests.
Tania Ionin is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include second language acquisition and experimental semantics, with a focus on the nominal domain.
Silvina Montrul is Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab, founder and director of the University Language Academy for Children, and former director of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE).
Together, they have written and published the book "Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research."
In this episode, they discuss:
grammatical knowledge in the context of language acquisition
what intervention research is
why we expect too much of adult learners
how instruction contributes or doesn't contribute to grammar acquisition
efficacious conditions for grammar instruction
how educators can influence the learning of grammar
why studying monolinguals helps to understand L2 acquisition
literate vs illiterate native speakers for a study on grammatical knowledge
For more on today's guests:
1. Get their book "SLA: Introducing Intervention Research"
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About Tania Ionin
Tania Ionin is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT in 2003, and has worked at the University of Illinois since 2007. Her areas of expertise include second language acquisition and experimental semantics, with focus on the nominal domain. She has published two co-authored books (Ionin and Matushansky, Cardinals: The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-containing Expressions, MIT Press, 2018; Ionin and Montrul, Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research, Cambridge University Press, 2023), a co-edited handbook (Ionin, Montrul and Slabakova: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax and Semantics, Routledge, 2024) and numerous articles. She regularly teaches courses in experimental research methods, language acquisition, psycholinguistics and pedagogical grammar.
I can be contacted at tionin@illinois.edu
My departmental profile is at https://linguistics.illinois.edu/directory/profile/tionin and my website is https://publish.illinois.edu/tionin/research/
Publications: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13621688231153759
The website for our textbook is: https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/second-language-acquisition/7AD22BE04CB8D7C3A43C420732FF7483#overview
About Silvina Montrul
Silvina Montrul is Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was Head of the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese (2010-2016). She is affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She is the director of the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab,
founder and director of the University Language Academy for Children, and former director of
the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE). In
2013 she was named University Scholar for her outstanding contributions to research, teaching
and service at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on linguistic and psycholinguistic
approaches to second language acquisition and bilingualism, with particular emphasis on heritage speakers, and has been funded by the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She is editor of Second Language Research, former Associate Editor of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, and former editorial board member of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. She is author of over a hundred journal articles and book chapters and of several books: The Acquisition of Spanish (Benjamins, 2004), Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (Benjamins, 2008), El bilingüismo en el mundo hispano hablante [Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world] (2013, Wiley-Blackwell) and Heritage Language Acquisition (2016, Cambridge University Press), Her book Native Speakers, Interrupted (2022, Cambridge University Press) was the recipient of the 2024 L. Bloomfield book award from the Linguistic Society of America. Together with Tania Ionin, she published Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research (2023, Cambridge University Press) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Morphosyntax and Semantics (2024, Taylor and Francis Group).
My contact email: montrul@illinois.edu
My website: https://linguistics.illinois.edu/directory/profile/montrul
My lab website: http://publish.illinois.edu/uiuc-slab/
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