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I am currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at FSU. I have an MA in Hispanic Linguistics, also from FSU. For 3 years, I co-taught an online summer course on Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction as part of a language teacher certificate program at UC Boulder. I have been a communicative and comprehension-based language teacher at the elementary, middle, university, and adult levels for over a decade.
For 3 years, I taught English in Honduras as one of my jobs as a Youth Development Volunteer in the Peace Corps and after as Director of Operations for the Honduras Educational Development Assistance Corp (HEDAC). I have volunteered in Honduran schools to support English instruction, and I set up a book-based English program in one school. I returned to the US and for 4 years, I taught elementary and middle school Spanish at a public school in Massachusetts, as well as teaching an adult, night class. Then, I taught middle school for 1 year at a private school in North Carolina. For the past 6 years, I've been teaching in the basic language program at FSU. Family fact: I married a Honduran from my Peace Corps town and we have two young boys. |
Publications
Leeser, M. J, & Herman, E. (2022). Methodological issues in research on working memory and L2 reading comprehension. In J. Schwieter & Z. Wen (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language (pp. 613-634). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955638.034
Herman, E., & Leeser, M. J. (2022). The relationship between lexical coverage and type of reading comprehension in beginning L2 Spanish learners. The Modern Language Journal, 106(1), 284-305. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12761
Herman, E., & Leeser, M. J. (2022). The relationship between lexical coverage and type of reading comprehension in beginning L2 Spanish learners. The Modern Language Journal, 106(1), 284-305. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12761
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