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Nuria Sagarra
Assistant Professor, Spanish, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics.
Director, Spanish Basic Language Program

Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University
345 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 865-1140
E-mail: sagarra@psu.edu

Lab Affiliation: Eye-Tracking and Language Processing Lab

Research Interests:

Working memory, second-language morphosyntactic processing, computer-delivered feedback on error.

Research Opportunities:

I offer one RAship and one workstudy position each semester (10 hrs per week).


Recent Publications:

Sagarra, N. (Forthcoming). From CALL to face-to-face interaction: The effect of computer-delivered recasts and working memory on L2 development. In A. Mackey (Ed.), Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition: A Series of Empirical Studies. (Manuscript lengt: 37 pp.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sagarra, N. (Forthcoming). Working memory and L2 processing of redundant grammatical forms. In Z. Han (Ed.), Second Language Processing and Instruction: Broadening the Scope of Inquiry. (Manuscript length: 27 pp.). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Sagarra, N. (Forthcoming). Lo bueno se hace esperar: El efecto longitudinal de actividades en línea en la comprensión. Cuadernos Cervantes, 65. (Manuscript length: 18 pp.).

Dussias, P. E. and Sagarra, N. (Forthcoming). On the convergence of parsing strategies in bilinguals. (Manuscript length: 51 pp.). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Sagarra, N. and Alba, M. (2006). The key is in the keyword: L2 vocabulary learning strategies with beginners. Modern Language Journal, 90(2), 228-243.

Sagarra, N. (2002). The role of syntactic modifications on L2 oral comprehension. In C. Wiltshire and J. Camps (Eds.), Romance Phonology and Variation (pp. 197-210). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.