Experts: Language Learning

Cooper Borkenhagen’s research focus is learning mechanisms that underlie reading development and how aspects of the language environment, including print, can serve to accelerate development.

Hiver is an expert on second and foreign language acquisition and language pedagogy. His research explores how classroom instruction links to learners’ investment, expenditure of effort, participation and engagement with languages.

Amy S. Thompson, Ph.D. (Ph.D. Michigan State University), is the Mack and Effie Campbell Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Teacher Education in the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at Florida State University. Her teaching experience includes a range of theoretical and methodological courses in Applied Linguistics. Regarding research, her primary research foci involve Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition and the interaction of these IDs and multilingualism, language learning in Anglophone contexts, and a variety of other variables involved in language learning, teaching, and leadership in academia.

Wood’s research interests include bilingual language and literacy, early intervention for English language learners, family and child outcomes of early hearing detection and intervention, efficacy of augmentative and alternative communication strategies with young children and bilingual assessment. Wood’s aim is to improve language and literacy outcomes for children from diverse backgrounds, including children with differing abilities and children from diverse socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.