CURRENT LAB PROJECTS

Generative AI meets the heritage speaker: A look at writing feedback
Collaborator: Carina Saiidi Padilla, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

"It just comes out natural": Heritage bilinguals' testimonies on their family language policies in Southern California
Collaborators: Melanie Santamaria, Human Biology major, UC Irvine
                        Dr. Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo, Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico
                      

Online task-supported lessons for beginning Spanish learners: Interplay between motivation and task performance
Collaborator: Melinda Franke, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

The effectiveness of a dual immersion teacher education program: Evidence from Southern California
Collaborators: Susan Guilfoyle, Lecturer & BCLAD coordinator, UC Irvine
                        Jasmin Hernández, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

Timing of explicit instruction and linguistic insecurity on heritage language learners' oral task performance
Collaborators: Dr. Melissa Bowles, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
                      Nicole Vargas Fuentes, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

Online task engagement and peer interaction among Korean heritage bilinguals
Collaborators: Dr. Sei Lee, Coordinator for International Student Program,  UC Irvine
                       Youngsun Moon, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

Virtual tasks: Promoting language development through linguistic landscape
Collaborator: Dr. Jerry W. Lee, Professor, UC Irvine
                      Nicholas Sulier, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine