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Elena Schmitt

Associate Professor of TESOL and Foreign Language Certification
Department Chair
E-mail: schmitte1@southernct.edu
Telephone: (203) 392-6138
Office: Engleman Hall D-163

 

 

 

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of South Carolina, 2001
M.A., Foreign Languages, Linguistics, West Virginia University, 1993
Public School Teacher Certification, Columbia, SC, 1993
B.A., ESL, French, Translation, Moscow Sstate University of Foreign Languages, 1990


Selected Publications

  • In press. When boundaries are crossed: Evaluating bilingual data from two perspectives. First Language Attrition. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
  • 2008. Schmitt, Elena. Early Bilinguals - Incomplete Acquirers or Language Forgetters? p. 311-330. In Issues of Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Modern Education System. Studia Humaniora Et Paedagogica Collegii Narovensis III/2. 2008. Narva.
  • 2008.  Раннее двуязычие - неполное освоение или утрата языка? (стр. 333-353). Multikultuurilisuse ja mitmekeelsuse probleemid tänapäeva haridussüsteemis/Проблемы мультикультурности и многоязычия в современной образования. Studia Humaniora Et Paedagogica Collegii Narovensis III/I.. Нарва.
  • 2007.    'Bare' bones of language loss: A study of uninflected codeswitched forms in the speech of immigrant children from Russia. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 14:1, 263-288

 

Selected Presentations

  • 2009 From Access to Attrition: The rate of morphological L1 attrition in young immigrants. GURT, Washington, D.C. March 13- 15.
  • 2008 Deceptive Bilingualism: Structural differences in the family language production. AATSEEL, San Francisco, December 27-30.
  • 2007 The 4-M model: Evidence from language attrition and language acquisition. EURO SLA, Newcastle, England, Sept. 11-14.
  • 2007 Searching for the Roots: The Role of Incomplete Acquisition and Language Attrition in the Speech of Early Bilinguals. 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, May 30 - June 2.