OFFICE ADDRESS
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Washington University
Campus Box 1077, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Tel: (314) 935-7951; Fax: (314) 726-3494
E-mail: barcroft@wustl.edu
EDUCATION
Degrees Received:
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Field: Spanish and Second Language Acquisition
Dissertation: The Effects of Sentence Writing as Semantic Elaboration on the Allocation of Processing Resources and Second Language Lexical Acquisition
Director: Bill VanPatten
Date received: May 2000
Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
Field: Spanish and Second Language Acquisition
B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
Field: Anthropology
B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Field: Spanish
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Position Held
Associate Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2000-present
Director of Basic Language Instruction for Spanish
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2001-present
Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in Language Instruction
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2000-present
Director of Course Planning and Staffing for Spanish
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2006-2007
Placement Exam Coordinator and Assessment for Spanish, French, and Italian
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2005-2006
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish
Washington University, St. Louis,
MO, 2004-2005; 2007-2008
Director of Summer Study Abroad Program in Puebla, Mexico
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2006-2007
Course Supervisor for Third- and Fourth-Semester Spanish
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1996
Instructor of Spanish
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993-2000
Parkland College, Champaign, IL, 1996-2000
Assistant Editor
Spanish Applied Linguistics, Urbana, IL, 1997-1999
Managing Editor
Discourse, Urbana, IL, 1997-1999
Assistant Director of Studies
Language Studies International, San Diego, CA, 1989-1993
Instructor of English as a Second Language
Solana Beach School District, Solana Beach, CA, 1990-1992
Courses Taught
Second Language Acquisition
Washington University
Grammar and Vocabulary Acquisition Seminar
Washington University
Language Teaching Methodology
Washington University
Hispanic Linguistics
Washington University
Advanced Spanish Composition
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advanced Spanish Grammar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
Washington University
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-semester Spanish
Washington University
Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Intensive Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
English as a Second Language
All levels; Business English; Test of English as a Foreign Language; Cambridge First
Language Studies International, San Diego, California
English and Spanish Literacy
Title V pilot program to increase literacy among Mexican immigrant families
Solana Beach School District, Solana Beach, California
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and Chapters in Books
Barcroft, J. (in press). Effects of word and fragment writing during L2 vocabulary learning.
Barcroft, J. (2007). When knowing grammar depends on knowing words: Native-speaker
grammaticality judgments of sentences with real and unreal words. Canadian Modern
Language Review, 63, 3, 313-343.
Barcroft, J., Sommers, M. S., & Tye-Murray, N. (2007). What learning a second language might
teach us about auditory training. Seminars in Hearing, 28, 151-161.
Sommers, M., & Barcroft, J. (2007). An Integrated Account of the Effects of Acoustic
Variability in first language and second language: Evidence from Amplitude, Fundamental
Frequency, and Speaking Rate Variability. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28, 2, 231-249.
Barcroft, J. (2007). Effects of opportunities for word retrieval during second language
vocabulary learning. Language Learning, 57, 1, 35-56.
Barcroft, J. (2006). Can writing a new word detract from learning it? More negative effects of
forced output during vocabulary learning.
Second Language Research, 22, 4, 487-497.
Sommers, M. S., & Barcroft, J. (2006). Stimulus variability and the phonetic relevance
hypothesis: Effects of variability in speaking style, fundamental frequency, and speaking rate
on spoken word identification. Journal of the American Acoustical Society 119, 4, 2406-2416.
Barcroft, J. (2005). La enseñanza del vocabulario en español como segunda lengua. (‘Vocabulary
instruction in Spanish as a second language’). Hispania, 88, 3, 568-583.
Barcroft, J., & Sommers, M. S. (2005). Effects of acoustic variability on second language
vocabulary learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 3, 387-414.
Barcroft, J. (2004). Promoting second language vocabulary acquisition during reading: Some
pivotal issues and eight instructional techniques. The Southern Journal of Linguistics, 26, 2,
94-114.
Barcroft, J. (2004). Effects of sentence writing in L2 lexical acquisition. Second Language
Research, 20, 4, 303-334.
Barcroft, J. (2004). Theoretical and methodological issues in research on semantic and structural elaboration in lexical acquisition. In B. VanPatten, J. Williams, S. Rott, & M. Overstreet
(Eds.), Form-meaning connections in second language acquisition (pp. 219-234). Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Barcroft, J. (2004). Second language vocabulary acquisition: A lexical input processing
approach. Foreign Language Annals, 37, 2, 200-208.
Barcroft, J. (2003). Distinctiveness and bidirectional effects in input enhancement for vocabulary
learning. Applied Language Learning, 13, 133-159.
Barcroft, J. (2003). Effects of questions about word meaning during L2 lexical learning. The
Modern Language Journal, 87, 4, 546-561.
Barcroft, J. (2002). Semantic and structural elaboration in L2 lexical acquisition. Language
Learning, 52, 2, 323-363.
Barcroft, J. (2001). Acoustic variation and lexical acquisition. Language Learning, 51, 4, 563-590.
Barcroft, J. (2001). Attention to form and meaning in the written mode: Unconstrained and
constrained reading. Spanish Applied Linguistics, 5, 1/2, 95-127.
Barcroft, J., & VanPatten, B. (1997). Acoustic salience of grammatical forms: The effect of
location, stress, and boundedness on Spanish L2 input processing. In Pérez-Leroux, A. &
Glass, W. (Eds.) Contemporary perspectives on the acquisition of Spanish. Volume 2:
Production, processing, and comprehension (pp. 109-122). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Book Review
Barcroft, J. (2006). Review of Achard, M, & Niemeier, S. (Eds.). (2004). Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, and foreign language teaching. Berlin: Moutin de Gruyter. The Modern Language Journal, 90, 2, 274-275.
PAPERS, LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS
Papers Delivered: International and National
“Partial Word Form Learning in L2 Spanish and German: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications”
(with Susanne Rott)
October 7, 2006, Second Language Research Forum, University of Washington, Seattle.
“Vocabulary learning with objects and nonobjects: Theoretical and methodological issues”
(with Gretchen Sunderman)
June 19, 2006, paper presented at the colloquium “L2 Vocabulary: The Interface between Learning and Representation,” Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Montreal, Quebec.
“Cross-linguistic influence in bilinguals: Implications for bilingual education”
March 20, 2006, The Oxford Round Table Special Session on Bilingual Education and the Teaching of English as a Second Language, Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
“Effects of semantic and structural elaboration on vocabulary learning during L2 reading”
November 12, 2005, Language Processing Workshop at The Conference on the Acquisition
of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, Pennsylvania State University.
“Effects of acoustic variability and voice intelligibility on L2 vocabulary learning”
(with Mitchell S. Sommers)
March 20, 2005, 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, Spain.
“Positive effects of acoustic variability on second language vocabulary learning”
(with Mitchell S. Sommers)
July 3, 2004, Fourth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Canada.
“Effects of synonym generation on L2 vocabulary learning during reading”
May 20th, 2004, 9th Symposium on Applied Linguistics, Puebla, Mexico.
“Word form learning in Spanish as second language: Comparing the spoken and written modes”
May 16, 2003, 8th Symposium on Applied Linguistics, Puebla, Mexico.
“English dative alternation: On what do speakers base their judgments?”
March 24, 2003, Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA.
“The effects of word writing on second language lexical acquisition”
April 7, 2002, Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, SaltLake City, UT.
“Examining the TOPRA model for L2 lexical acquisition”
March 16, 2002, Leiden, Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition Colloquium, Leiden, The Netherlands.
“Semantic and structural elaboration in lexical acquisition”
February 22, 2002, Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition Conference, Chicago, IL.
“Inhibitory effects of elaboration in early L2 lexical acquisition”
October 13, 2001, Fourth Annual Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, Urbana, IL.
“Semantic versus structural orientation in second language lexical learning”
July 20, 2001, International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain.
“Enhancement, typicality, and lexical acquisition”
February 27, 2001, Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, St. Louis, MO.
“The nature of partial word form learning”
November 18, 2000, Fourth Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Bloomington, IN.
“The generation effect in L2 lexical acquisition”
September 8, 2000, Second Language Research Forum, Madison, WI.
“Processing resources and L2 lexical acquisition in three writing tasks”
September 24, 1999, Second Language Research Forum, Minneapolis, MN.
“The effects of three input processing conditions on l2 vocabulary acquisition”
March 7, 1999, American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, CT.
“L2 vocabulary learning: Pictures, translations, or both?”
(with Nuria Sagarra)
November 22, 1998, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, IL.
“The effects of input and retrieval modes (L1 vs. picture vs. L1+picture) on L2 vocabulary retention”
(with Nuria Sagarra)
August 3, 1998, Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Madrid, Spain.
“Acoustic variation during spoken input and L2 vocabulary acquisition”
March 15, 1998, Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, WA.
“Input variation and optimal second language vocabulary acquisition as evidenced by zero vs. moderate vs. extreme variation on voice-type”
October 4, 1997, Spanish Second Language Acquisition Symposium, University of Texas at Austin.
“The effects of bilingualism on VOT durations of /ptk/ and /bdg/ in English and Spanish”
November 9, 1997, Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“Acoustic salience of grammatical forms: The effect of location and stress on (Spanish) L2 input processing”
(paper co-authored with Professor Bill VanPatten)
October 30, 1995, Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language, Penn State University.
Poster Presentations: International and National
“Acoustic Variability and Learning New Word Forms”
(with Mitchell S. Sommers)
To be presented on November 3, 2006 at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
“Sentence-level semantic processing and L2 vocabulary acquisition”
October 17-18, 2003, Second Language Research Forum, Tucson, AZ.
“The effects of variations in voice type on the acquisition of second language vocabulary”
(with Mitchell S. Sommers)
December 6, 2002, Conference of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancún, Mexico.
“Strategies and performance on an immediate lexical learning task”
October 4-5, 2002, Second Language Research Forum, Toronto, Canada.
“L2 vocabulary acquisition: Do sentence-writing and oral repetition help?”
October 15-18, 1998, Second Language Research Forum, Honolulu, HI.
Invited Lectures and Workshops: International and National
“Effects of Semantically and Structurally Oriented Tasks on Intentional and Incidental L2 Vocabulary Learning during Reading: Implications for Vocabulary Instruction”
July 2, 2007. Invited lecture at the Teaching Center for Foreign Students (CELE) at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
“Input-Based Second Language Vocabulary Instruction”
July 25, 2006. Invited workshop for language instructors in Rockwood School District, Eureka High School, Eureka, MO.
“An Input-Based Approach to Second Language Vocabulary Instruction”
April 5, 2006. Invited workshop for language instructors at University of Missouri at St. Louis.
“Word-Level Input Processing, Type of Processing, and Second Language Vocabulary Learning”
May 18, 2005. Invited lecture at the Teaching Center for Foreign Students (CELE) at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
“Processing resource allocation and second language vocabulary acquisition: Theory, research,and instruction”
March 3, 2004. Invited lecture at Notre Dame University.
“¿Qué sabemos de la adquisición de vocabulario en segundas lenguas?” [What do we know about second language vocabulary acquisition?]”
May 13, 2003. Invited lecture at the Teaching Center for Foreign Students at the Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Follow-up lecture-discussion session oninput processing and vocabulary acquisition also presented on May 23, 2003 at Center for Teaching of Foreign Languages
(CELE) at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
“Second language acquisition: Vocabulary development”
March 21, 2003. Workshop for instructors in the Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis,MO.
“Adquisición de vocabulario: Investigación y práctica”
September 21, 2002. Plenary address at the XI Encuentro para profesores de español a no hispanohablantes: Técnicas metodológicas en el salón de clases. Autonomous University of Mexico, San Antonio, TX.
“L2 vocabulary acquisition: An overview of research directions”
October 23, 2001. Invited Lecture at the Department of French, Ohio State University,Columbus, OH.
“Input processing and vocabulary acquisition”
March 9, 2001. Invited Lecture at the University of Houston, Houston, TX.
COLLOQUIUM CONVENED
“L2 vocabulary: The interface between learning and representation”
June 19, 2006, Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Montreal.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for Applied Linguistics
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Language Association
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