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Humanities Division
Languages and Applied Linguistics
Professor
Faculty
Regular Faculty
Heritage Languages
Spanish as a Heritage Language
Language Development
Bilingualism, Multilingualism
Linguistics
Humanities Building 1
131
Fridays 12:15-1:45 and by appointment
Humanities Academic Services
Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics, UC Davis (2004)
Spanish linguistics; second language acquisition; cognitive linguistics; usage-based theory of language acquisition; heritage languages; language pedagogy and curriculum design.
Books
- Zyzik, E. & Bowles, M. (2025). The acquisition of Spanish: A research overview in multilingual contexts. Routledge.
- Zyzik, E. (2024). Vivencias: Lengua, cultura y sociedad a través de relatos sonoros. Cognella.
- Blake, R., & Zyzik, E. (2016). El español y la lingüística aplicada. Georgetown University Press.
- Zyzik, E., & Polio, C. (2017). Authentic materials myths: Applying second language research to classroom teaching. University of Michigan Press.
SPAN 130/LGST 130A: Spanish for the Legal Profession
SPAN 114: Advanced Conversation and Composition
APLX 101: Second Language Acquisition
APLX 135/235: Second Language Teaching
SPAN 150: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
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