Mellon Fellow Program

Post-Doctoral Fellows | Collaborative Groups | Adjunct Fellows | Pre-Doctoral Fellows

PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Norine Berenz, University of California, Berkeley: Investigation of Brazilian Sign Language in the context of the local community, and the Brazilian deaf community, as well as the larger context of international sign languages, with specific study of forms of personal pronouns and the meanings they encode.

Marc Norton Boots-Ebenfield, Bryn Mawr College: Investigation of how second language learners understand aspect in Russian.

Victor Frank, Bryn Mawr College: Study of the pragmatic aspects of second language learning processes during study abroad.

Patricia Kuntz, Outreach Director, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin at Madison: A study of the curricular and instructional status of Arabic and Swahili in the United States.

Jennifer Leeman, Georgetown University: Recasts in Spanish as a second language: an empirical study of negative evidence and enhanced salience.

Aida Martinovic-Zic, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: An examination of the role of cognitive and typological constraints in culture and language learning.

Andrea Nelson, Bryn Mawr College: Investigation of the acquisition of the inflectional morphology of learners of Russian as a foreign language.

John Norris, University of Hawaii, Manoa: comprehensive construct validation in foreign language assessment

Lourdes Ortega, Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawaii, Manoa: A study of the development of L2 Spanish learners' syntactic repertoire and the gradual deployment of learners' ability to use that repertoire in a range of situations.

Valerie Pellegrino, Bryn Mawr College: Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from the experience of American students studying Russian in Moscow and St. Petersburg in order to better understand the role of risk-taking and risk-avoiding behavior in language acquisition.

Meryl Siegel, University of California, Berkeley: Examination of the interaction of social context and second language acquisition among adults learning Japanese as a second language.