Learn Cutting Edge Research Methods

MA in SLS students working with Dr. Dongping Zheng study English language learners as they play an immersive 3-D, place-based, mobile assisted language learning (MALL) game. Click title to learn more…

You can also learn how to use the state-of-the-art eye-tracking equipment in the Tracker Lab to study language comprehension in real time, how to develop algorithms for the analysis of large-scale language corpora, and how to design and implement immersive 3-D and place-based mobile technologies to study language learning.

The Department of Second Language Studies shares the General Lab, Phonetics Lab, Tracker Lab, Acquisition Lab, Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab (SLAB), and Sociolinguistics Lab with the Department of Linguistics, as part of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature.