Second language acquisition

Jeffrey Steele

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Foreign accent
• French as a second language
• Language ability assessment
• Second language acquisition

Office: (905) 828-3988
Home: 416-924-3049
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: jeffrey.steele@utoronto.ca
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María Cristina Cuervo

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Spanish and Portuguese

Areas of Expertise

• Argument structure
• Clitics
• Grammar
• Linguistic theory
• Linguistics
• Morphology
• Second language acquisition
• Spanish
• syntax

Office: 416-813-4051
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American,French
Website
Email: mc.cuervo@utoronto.ca
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Rena Helms-Park

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Language Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Acquisition of reading by children and adults
• Creolization
• Cross-linguistic transfer
• Electronic literacy
• First and second
• First and second language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
• Language and Power
• Language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
• Language transfer
• Lexical acquisition
• Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition
• Psycholinguistics of reading
• Second language acquisition
• Undergraduate writing curriculum

Office: 416-287-7142
Website
Email: rena.helms.park@utoronto.ca
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