Lab Affiliation: Psycholinguistic Research On Bilingualism And Reading (PROBAR lab)

Research Interests:

Bilingual lexical representation and reading comprehension processes; bilingual emergent literacy and vocabulary acquisition; second language pedagogy and teacher preparation; eye-tracking methodology

Recent Publications:

Arêas da Luz Fontes, A.B. & Schwartz, A.I. (in press). On a different plane: Cross-language effects on the conceptual representations of within-language. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Schwartz, A.I., & Arêas da Luz Fontes, A.B. (2008). Cross-language mediated priming: Effects of context and lexical relationship. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 1-16.

Schwartz, A.I., Yehs, L., & Shaw, M.P. (2008). Lexical representation of second language words: Implications for second language vocabulary acquisition and use. The Journal of the Mental Lexicon, 3(3), 309-324.

Sunderman, G. & Schwartz, A.I. (2008). Using cognates to investigate cross- language competition in second language processing. TESOL Quarterly,42, 527-536.

Schwartz, A. I., Kroll, J. F., & Diaz, M. (2007). Reading words in Spanish and English: Mapping orthography to phonology in two languages. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 106-129.

Schwartz, A. I. & Kroll, J. F. (2007). Language comprehension in bilingual speakers. In M. Traxler & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Schwartz, A. I., Kroll, J.F. (2006). Bilingual lexical activation in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 197-212.

Kroll, J.F., Sumutka, B. M., Schwartz, A. I. (2005). A cognitive view of the bilingual lexicon: Reading and speaking words in two languages. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 9, 1, 27-48.

Schwartz, A. I.(2002). National Standards and the diffusion of innovation: Language teaching in the USA. In S.J. Savignon (Ed.) Interpreting communicative language teaching: Contexts and concerns in teacher education (pp.112-130) Yale University Press.