Peter Golato
Office: 2090N FLB
Phone: 244-8215
Email: pgolato@illinois.edu
I received my Ph.D. in French from the University of Texas at Austin, where I completed a dissertation that studied auditory word-segmentation strategies among late-learning French-English bilinguals. My work since then has been concerned with the morphological and morphosyntactic processing of French by native French speakers. My current projects address the mental representation and processing of French by non-native speakers of French.. I am also interested in the use of technology in language teaching.
As a faculty member cooperating in the U of I's Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) program, I offer graduate-level courses on theories of SLA and on psycholinguistic approaches to SLA. At the undergraduate level, I have offered courses on Francophone literature. I also offer an undergraduate introduction to second language learning and teaching which is part of the U of I's Foreign Language Teacher Education (FLTE) program. Together with French department teaching assistants, I introduced a substantial online component to French 104 in which students experience both spoken and written authentic French and Francophone culture in real time.
Representative publications include:
(2006). Processing French: A psycholinguistic perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
(2004) A review of VanPatten, B. (2003), From input to output: A teacher's guide to second language acquisition. French Review, 78 (1), pp. 168-170.
(2002) Word parsing by late-learning French-English bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 23, 417- 446.
(2002) Operationalizing "Language Dominance" in Late Bilinguals. Northeastern Illinois University Working Papers in Linguistics.