Inner Asian and Uralic
National Resource Center

I am expanding my Ph.D. research on conversation-for-learning as a hybrid speech event. I study how adult second language learners make meaning in spontaneous conversation practice activities, focusing on interlanguage grammar as emergent in the social context of interaction. My second current research area involves bilingual speakers in language contact situation. I work with spoken language data from American learners of Estonian and the Estonian communities in the U.S.