Graduate Student

Psychology Office: 455G Baker Hall
Psychology Phone: 412-268-4191
Email: presson@cmu.edu
Advisor: Brian MacWhinney

Research Interests:

I am interested in the way in which second languages are acquired, more specifically whether L2 syntactic structures can be truly mastered in a meaningful way. In order to investigate this, I also am interested in the question of optimal practice scheduling and other related learning process questions, such as Competition Model predictions of task difficulty, explicit vs. implicit instruction, and to what extent individual difference plays a role in this mastery. Currently, my research takes place in French courses at CMU and Pitt, through the PSLC LearnLab.  

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