Curriculum

CURRICULUM VITAE

TERESA CADIERNO
Department of Language and Communication
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense
Denmark
Phone: (45) 65503217
E-mail: cadierno@language.sdu.dk

DEGREES / EDUCATION

Ph. D. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( USA )
1992 Major: Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Minor: Hispanic Linguistics

M. A. The University of Georgia ( Athens ) ( USA )
1988 Major: Spanish Applied Linguistics

B. A. The University of Oviedo ( Spain )
1986 Major: English Philology


UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

Full Professor
January 2012 – present: Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. 

Associate Professor
Aug. 1996 - December 2011:  Associate Professor at the Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark.

Assistant Professor
August 1993 - 1996: Assistant Professor in Spanish; Department of Romance Languages, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Foreign Lector
Aug. 1992 - 1993: Foreign Lector in Spanish; Department of Romance Languages, Aarhus University, Denmark. 

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS
Second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, with special focus on L2 input processing, the acquisition of grammar by adult L2 learners, and the role of formal instruction in adult L2 acquisition;

Second language acquisition from the theoretical perspective of usage-based / cognitive linguistics, with special focus on investigating L2 learning as the process of constructing a second language and learning to re-think for speaking, and the acquisition and teaching of L2 constructions for the expression of motion events by adult foreign language learners.


PUBLICATIONS
A) Edited volumes: 

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., Cadierno, T., & Castañeda Castro, A. (to appear, 2018). Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2. Londres:Routledge.

Cadierno, T. & Eskildsen, S.W. (Eds.). (2015). Usage-based perspectives on second language learning. Berlin / New York:  Mouton de Gruyter.

Han, Z-H. & Cadierno, T.  (Eds.).  (2010). Linguistic relativity in second language acquisition: Thinking-for-speaking. Clevedon:  Multilingual Matters.

Ellis, N. C. & Cadierno, T. (Eds.). (2009). Constructing a second language.  Special section of Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7.

B) Refereed journal articles and book chapters: 

Muñoz, M. & Cadierno, T. (2018). Mr. Bean exits the garage driving or does he drive out of the garage?: Bidirectional transfer in the expression of Path. In R. Llopis, & Hijazo-Gascón /Eds.), Special issue on Applied cognitive linguistics to L2 acquisition and learning: Research and convergence. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) 57 (1).

Cadierno, T., Castañeda Castro, A., & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. (to appear, 2018). Introducción: La Lingüística Cognitiva y ELE. In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, T. Cadierno, & A. Castañeda Castro (Eds.), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2. London: Routledge.

Cadierno, T. & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. (to appear, 2018). La lingüística cognitiva y la adquisición de segundas lenguas. In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, T. Cadierno, & A. Castañeda Castro (Eds.), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2. London: Routledge.

Alhmoud, Z., Castañeda Castro, A. & Cadierno, T. (to appear, 2018). Imágenes animadas en la presentación didáctica de estructuras comparativas del español. In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, T. Cadierno, & A. Castañeda Castro (Eds.), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2. London: Routledge.

Hijazo-Gascón, A., Cadierno, T., & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. (to appear, 2018). Los eventos de movimiento en la adquisición de español como lengua extranjera. In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, T. Cadierno, & A. Castañeda Castro (Eds.), Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2. London: Routledge.

Nistov, I., Gustafsson, H., & Cadierno, T. (2018). Bruksbaserte tilnærminger til andrespråkslæring. In A-K H. Gujord o& G. Tveit Randen (Eds.), Norsk som andrespråk – Perspektiver på læring og utvikling (pp. 107-132).  Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Muñoz, C., Cadierno, T., & Casas, I. (2018). Different starting points for early English language learning: A comparative study of Danish and Spanish young learners. Language Learning 68 (4), 1076-1109.

Cadierno, T. & Eskildsen, S. W. (2018). The younger, the better? A usage-based approach to learning and teaching of English in Danish primary schools. European Journal of Applied Linguistics (EuJAL) 6(1), 171-182.

Fenyvesi, K., Hansen, M., & Cadierno, T. (2018). The role of individual differences in younger vs. older primary school learners of English in Denmark. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL). 

Koster, D., & Cadierno, T. (2018). The effect of language on recognition memory in L1 and L2 speakers: The case of placement events. International Journal of Bilingualism.

Koster, D., & Cadierno, T. (2018). Is perception of placement universal? A mixed methods perspective on linguistic relativity. Lingua 207, 23-37.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Chiarandini, M. (to appear). Mental simulation of object orientation and size – A conceptual replication with second language learners. Journal of the European Second Language Association (JESLA)

Cadierno, T. (2017). Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language: Looking back and forward. In I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ed.), Motion and space across languages and applications (pp. 279-300). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cadierno, T., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., & Hijazo-Gascón, A. (2016).  Semantic categorization of placement verbs in L1 and L2 Danish and Spanish. Language Learning, 66 (1), 191-223.

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., Cadierno, T., & Hijazo-Gascón, A. (2016). The role of force dynamics and intentionality in the reconstruction of L2 verb meanings: A Danish-Spanish bidirectional study. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 136-160.

Hijazo-Gascón, A., Cadierno, T., & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. (2016). Learning the placement caused motion construction in L2 Spanish. In S. De Knop and G. Gilquin (Eds.), Applied construction grammar (pp. 185-210). Berlin / New York:  Mouton de Gruyter. 

Alonso, R., Cadierno, T. & Jarvis, S. (2016). Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of spatial prepositions in English as a foreign language. In R. Alonso (Ed.), Crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition (pp. 93-120). Bristol/Buffalo/Toronto:  Multilingual Matters.

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., Cadierno, T., Hijazo-Gascón, A. (2015). La expresión de los eventos de colocación en danés y español. Scripta, 34, 63-84.

Li, P., Eskildsen, S. W., & Cadierno, T. (2014). Tracing an L2 learner’s motion constructions over time—A usage-based classroom investigation. The Modern Language Journal, 98 (2), 612-628. 

Cadierno, T. & Pedersen, J. (2013). Introducción a la lingüística cognitiva. In S. S. Fernández & J. Falck (Eds.), Temas de gramática española para estudiantes universitarios: Una aproximación cognitiva y functional. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Cadierno, T. & Ahijazo-Gascón, A. (2013). Cognitive linguistics and the acquisition of L2 Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition (pp. 96-110). Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.

Jessen, M. and Cadierno, T. (2013). Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers. In J. Goschler & A. Stefanowitsch (eds.) Variation and change in the encoding of motion events (pp. 133-160). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Cadierno, T. (2012). Thinking for speaking in second language acquisition.  In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Han, Z.H. & Cadierno, T. (2012). Linguistic relativity in second language acquisition. In P. Robinson (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition. New York: Routledge.

Cadierno, T. (2010). Motion in Danish as a second language: Does the learner’s L1 make a difference? In Z-H. Han & T. Cadierno (Eds.), Linguistic relativity in SLA: Thinking for speaking (pp. 1-33). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z.H., & Cadierno, T. (2010). Preface. In Z-H. Han & T. Cadierno (Eds.), Linguistic relativity in SLA: Thinking for speaking (pp. xi-xvi). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Cadierno, T. & Robinson, P. (2009). Language typology, task complexity and the development of L2 lexicalization patters for describing motion events. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 245-276.

Ellis, N. C. & Cadierno, T. (2009). Constructing a second language: Introduction to the special section. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 111- 139.

Robinson, P., Cadierno, T., & Shirai, Y. (2009). Time, and motion: Measuring the effects of the conceptual demands of tasks on second language speech production. Applied Linguistics, 30 (4), 533-554.

Marras V. & Cadierno, T. (2008). Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA. In A. Tyler, Y. Kim, & M.Takada (Eds.), Language in the context of use: Cognitive and usage-based approches to language and language learning (pp. 233-252). Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Cadierno, T. (2008). Learning to talk about motion in a foreign language. In P. Robinson & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition (pp. 239-275). New York / London: Routledge.

Cadierno, T. (2008). Motion events in Danish and Spanish: A focus on form pedagogical approach. In S. De Knop & T. De Rycker (Eds.), Cognitive approaches to pedagogical grammar (pp. 259-294). Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Eskildsen, S. W. & Cadierno, T. (2007). Are recurring multi-word expressions really syntactic freezes? Second language acquisition from the perspective of usage-based linguistics. In M Nenonen & S. Niemi (Eds.), Collocations and idioms 1. Papers from the First Nordic Conference on Syntactic Freezes, Joensuu, Finland, May 19-20, 2006 (pp. 86-99). Joensuu: Joensuu University Press.

Cadierno, T. & Ruiz, L. (2006). Motion events in Spanish L2 acquisition. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 4, 183-216.

Cadierno, T. (2004). Expressing motion events in a second language: A cognitive typological approach. In M. Achard & S. Neimeier (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy (pp. 13-49). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Cadierno, T. & Lund, K. (2004). Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition: Motion events in a typological framework. In B. VanPatten, J. Williams, S. Rott & M. Overstreet (Eds.), Form – meaning connections in second language acquisition (pp. 139-154). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pedersen, J., & Cadierno, T. (2004). Construction grammar and second language acquisition: A cognitive understanding of language in a contrastive perspective. In H. Lauge (Ed.), Disciplines and interdisciplinarity in foreign language studies (pp. 151-167). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Basbøll, H., Bleses, D., Cadierno, T., Jensen, A., Ladegaard, H.J., Madsen, T.O., Millar, S., Sinha, C. & Thomsen, P. (2002). The Odense Language Acquisition Project. Child Language Bulletin, 22 (1), 11-12.

Cadierno, T. (2000-2001). La enseñanza gramatical y el aprendizaje de la gramática: El caso del aspecto en español. [Grammatical instruction and grammar learning: On Spanish aspect]. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 14, 53-74.

Cadierno, T. (2000). The acquisition of Spanish preterite and imperfect by Danish advanced language learners. Spanish Applied Linguistics, 4 (1), 1-53.

Lee, J. F., Cadierno, T., Glass, W. R.& VanPatten, B. (1997). The effects of lexical and grammatical cues on processing past temporal reference in second language input. Applied Language Learning 8, (1), 1-23.

Cadierno, T. (1995). El aprendizaje y la enseñanza de la gramática en el español como segunda lengua [The learning and teaching of Spanish grammar as a second language]. Revista de Estudios de Adquisición de la Lengua Española, 4, 67-85.

Cadierno, T. (1995). Formal instruction from a processing perspective: An investigation into the Spanish past tense. The Modern Language Journal, 79 (2), 179-193.

McClure, E., Mir, M. & Cadierno, T. (1993). What do you include in a narrative? A comparison of the written narratives of Mexican and American fourth and ninth graders. In L. F. Bouton & Y. Kachru (Eds.), Pragmatics and language learning, vol. 4, 209-224.

VanPatten, B. & Cadierno, T. (1993). Input processing and second language acquisition: A Role for Instruction. The Modern Language Journal, 77 (1), 45-57.

VanPatten, B. & Cadierno, T. (1993). Explicit instruction and input processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 15, 225-243.

Cadierno, T. & Prieto, P. (1991). Procesos de coarticulación en la asimilación de nasales en asturiano [Coarticulation processes in nasal assimilation in the Asturian language]. LLetres Asturianes, 39, 15-22.

Cadierno, T. & Prieto, P. (1990). Asturian nasal assimilation and the structure of complex segments. Romance Languages Annual, 653-660.


C) Articles in non refereed journals:

Cadierno, T. (2013). Lenguaje y pensamiento en acción: Aprender a 'pensar para hablar' en una segunda lengua. Proceedings of 31^st International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Universidad de la Laguna, Canary Islands. April 2012. 

Brouwer, C., Cadierno, T. & Rasmussen, G. (2013). Hvordan bliver man en kritisk konsument af forskning? Logos 67, 4-15.

Cadierno, T. (2000). Motion events in second language acquisition: A typological perspective. Pluridicta, 37, 1-26.

Cadierno, T. (1999). On second language comprehension and acquisition: Interactional and psycholinguistic perspectives. Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication, 18, 1-19.

Cadierno, T. (1997). Enfoques interactivos con respecto a la comprension lectora en una lengua extranjera: Implicaciones sobre su enseñanza [Interactive approaches to foreign language reading: Pedagogical implications]. Actas del III Congreso Nacional / I Internacional sobre La interdisciplinariedad en el Discurso Artístico: ¿Realidad o Utopía? [Proceedings of the III National / I International Conference on Interdisciplinary approaches to Discourse: Reality or Utopia] organized by the University of Oviedo (Spain).

Cadierno, T. (1994). On the role of instruction in SLA: Research results and theoretical explanations. Pluridicta, 29, 1-39.

Cadierno, T. (1994). La situación sociolingüística en Asturias: Actitudes lingüísticas de los asturianos [The sociolinguistic situation in Asturias: Asturian peoples' linguistic attitudes]. ISA, 55, 17-28. Dept. of Romance Languages, Aarhus University.

Cadierno, T. (1994). Interferencias del inglés en el español: Un estudio sociolingüístico de hispano y angloamericanos [Interferences from English into Spanish: A sociolinguistic study of Hispanic and Anglo-Americans]. ISA, 55, 61-75. Dept. of Romance Languages, Aarhus University.

Cadierno, T. (1994). Comprehension and input processing as useful terms in the field of SLA. Pluridicta, 28, 1-19.


D) Book reviews:
Cadierno, T. (2012). Review of V. Cook & B. Bassetti (Eds.) (2001), Language and bilingual cognition. Oxford, UK: Psychology Press. To appear in Language and Bilingual Cognition.


PRESENTATIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES 

Muñoz, C. & Cadierno, T. The role of context- and language-related factors in early L2 learning: A comparative study of Danish and Spanish young learners of English. Paper presented at the XXXVI International Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) Conference. Cádiz (Spain):  April 19-21, 2018.

Fenyvesi, K., Hansen, M., Lauridsen, J. L., & Cadierno, T. Starting age and individual factors predict Danish children’s EFL learning rate and proficiency. Psychology of Language Learning (PLL3).  Waseda University, Tokyo: June 7-10.

Muñoz, C., Cadierno, T., & Casas, I. The role of linguistic distance and out-of-school contact in early L2 English. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Chicago: March 24-27, 2018.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Coventry, K. Do orientation and size matter? Mental simulation of object properties in L1 and L2 readers. Paper presented at the 27th EUROSLA (European Second Language Acquisition) Conference. Reading: August 30-September 1, 2017.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Coventry, K. Upside down, male or female? The effect of language on recognition memory in L2 learners. Paper presented at TDL 3 (Thinking, Doing, Learning International conference): Usage-based Perspectives on Second Language Learning). University of Munich, Germany: April 19-22, 2017.

Fenyvesi, K., Hansen, M., Cadierno, T. The earlier, the better? On the role of individual differences in younger vs. older primary school Danish learners of English. Paper presented at 6th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC). Lund University, Sweden: April 20-22, 2017.

Muñoz Carrasco, M., & Cadierno, T. La transferencia bidireccional inglés-español en las situaciones de movimiento. Paper presented at AELCO (the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics), University of Alcalá, Spain: October 26-28, 2016.

Alhmoud, Z., Castañeda, A., & Cadierno, T. Estructuras comparativas a la luz de la gramática cognitiva: Aproximación descriptiva y propuesta pedagógica. Paper presented at AELCO (the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics), University of Alcalá, Spain: October 26-28, 2016.

Cadierno, T., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., & Hijazo-Gascón, A. Reconstruyendo la expresión de eventos de colocación en ELE. Paper presented at AELCO (the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics), University of Alcalá, Spain: October 26-28, 2016.

Cadierno, T., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., & Hijazo-Gascón, A. What types of constructions do L2 learners use when talking about placement events? Paper presented at CALP 2 (Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 2). Basel:  June 10-12, 2016.

Cadierno, T., & Rohr, B. English as vehicular language in higher education: University of Southern Denmark. Paper presented at the 34^th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Alicante, Spain: April 14-16, 2016.

Muñoz, C., Cadierno, T., & Jensen, S. Variability at the start of EFL learning: A comparative study. Paper presented at the 25^th EUROSLA (European Second Language Acquisition) Conference. Aix-en-Provence: August 27-29, 2015.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Coventry, K. Does size matter? Simulating object properties in L1 and L2. Paper presented at TDL 2 (Thinking, Doing, Learning International conference: Usage-based Perspectives on Second Language Learning). University of Groningen, Holland: June 3-5, 2015.

Cadierno, T.: Placement events in L2 Danish and Spanish: A bi-directional study. Paper presented at the 2015 AAAL Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada: March 21- 24, 2015.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Coventry, K.: How does language affect spatial memory: Insights from Spanish and German L1 data. Paper presented at AELCO (the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics), University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain: October 15-17, 2014.

Cadierno, T., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., & Hijazo-Gascón, A.: How do L2 speakers reconstruct the meaning of the L2? On the semantic categorization of L2 Danish placement verbs. Paper presented at AELCO (the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics), University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain: October 15-17, 2014.

Koster, D., Cadierno, T., & Coventry, K.: How language affects perceptually-based categorization: The case of placement events. Paper presented at the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), Lund University: September 25-27, 2014.

Alonso, R., Cadierno, T. & Jarvis, S. Cross-linguistic influence in English as a second language: The spatial domain. Paper presented at AESLA (the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics). Sevilla, Spain: April 3-5, 2014.

Alonso, R., Cadierno, T. & Jarvis, S. CLI in English as an L2: The space domain. Paper presented at GURT 14 (Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics). Washington, DC: March 14-16, 2014.

Eskildsen, S.W. Cadierno, T. & Wagner, T. Creating a social infrastructure for L2 learning: Towards an experiential second language pedagogy. Paper presented at GURT (Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics) 14. Washington, DC: March 14-16, 2014.

Eskildsen, S. W., Theodórsdóttir, G., Cadierno, T., & Wagner, J. Usage-based second language learning – experiential second language teaching? Paper presented at CALP 2013 (Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy). Brussels, November 8-9, 2013.

Cadierno, T., Ahijazo-Gascón, A. & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. How do I put objects in an L2? Learning the caused motion construction in a second language. Paper presented at CALP 2013 (Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy). Brussels, November 8-9, 2013

Eskildsen, S. W., Cadierno, T. & Li, P. Where you going?: Tracing the usage-based roots of L2 motion expressions. Paper presented at the 23rd EUROSLA (European Second Language Acquisition Acquisition) Conference. Amsterdam (Holland). August, 28-31, 2013. 

Cadierno, T., Ahijazo-Gascón, A. & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. Talking about placement events in a second language. Paper presented at the International Conference on Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning. Odense (Denmark). April 24-26, 2013.

Cadierno, T., Tyler, A., & Verspoor, M. Introduction to the colloquium on Usage-based approaches to second language acquisition. American Association for Applied Linguistics. Detroit. March 16-19, 2013. 

Cadierno, T., Ahijazo-Gascón, A. & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I.: How do L1 Danish speakers ‘put’ things in L2 Spanish? Paper presented at the 22nd EUROSLA (European Second Language Acquisition Acquisition) Conference. Poznan (Poland). September 6-8, 2012.

Cadierno, T., Ahijazo-Gascón, A. & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I. Eventos de colocación en español, danés y español L2. Paper presented at the AELCO (Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva) Conference. Almería (Spain). October 17-18, 2012.

Cadierno, T. & Jessen, M. Thinking for speaking in second language acquisition. Paper presented at the Symposium on Linguistic Relativity. Copenhagen Business School, December 14-16, 2011.

Jessen, M. & Cadierno, T. Semantic Categories in Danish as an L2: The Case of Motion. Paper presented at the EUROSLA 21, 21st Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. University of Stockholm, Sweden, September 8-10, 2011.

Cadierno, T. & Robinson, P. Task complexity and the development of L2 lexicalization patters for describing motion events. Paper presented at the International Conference of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2008). Essen, Germany August, 2008.

Eskildsen, S. W & Cadierno, T.  Formulas, patterns, and constructions –Applying a usage-based path of learning to longitudinal SLA research. Paper presented at the Symposium on “Cognition Applied: Usage-based linguistics and language acquisition”, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 15-16, 2007.

Cadierno, T. Thinking-for-speaking in a foreign language: On the expression of motion events. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Costa Mesa, USA, April 21-24, 2007.

Eskildsen, S W. & Cadierno, T. Are recurring multi-word expressions really syntactic freezes? Second language acquisition from the perspective of usage-based linguistics. Paper presented at The First Nordic Conference on Syntactic Freezes, University of Joensuu, Finland, May 19-20, 2006.

Cadierno, T. Form-meaning mappings in the acquisition of motion constructions: A cognitive linguistics perspective. Paper presented at the European Second Language Acquisition Conference (EUROSLA), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 14-17, 2005

Cadierno, T. & Ruiz, L. Motion events in Spanish L2 acquisition. Paper presented at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Logroño, Spain, July, 2003

Cadierno, T. & Lund, K. Meaning-form mappings in the expression of motion events: A cognitive typological approach. Paper presented at the International Conference on Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA, February 2002.

Lund, K. & Cadierno, T. Expressing movement in Danish and Spanish: A second language acquisition perspective. Paper presented at the International Conference on Adpositions of Movement, Leuven, Belgium, January 2002.

Millar, S. & Cadierno, T. The influence of social and linguistic factors on the development of metalinguistic awareness in Danish children: A pilot study. Paper presented at the Symposium on Metalinguistic Awareness: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, April 2000.

Cadierno, T. & Jensen, A. Motion events in second language accquisition: A typological perspective. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Vancouver, Canada, March 2000

Cadierno, T. On second language comprehension and acquisition: Interactional and psycholinguistic perspectives. Paper presented at the Conference on L2 Listening Comprehension. Odense Universitity, Denmark, May 1997.

Cadierno, T. Enfoques interactivos con respecto a la comprensión lectora en una lengua extranjera: Implicaciones sobre su enseñanza [Interactive approaches to foreign language reading: Pedagogical implications]. Paper presented at the III National / I International Conference on Interdisciplinary approaches to Discourse: Reality or Utopia, the University of Oviedo, Spain, March, 1996.

Cadierno, T. On the role of instruction in SLA: Research results and theoretical explanations. Paper presented at the IV European Second Language Acquisition Conference (EUROSLA). Aix-en-Provence, France, September 1994.

Cadierno, T. Comparative analysis of the English progressive (to be -ing) and the Spanish periphrastic gerund (estar -ndo). Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics. Mols, Denmark, June 1994.

Cadierno, T. The role of formal instruction in second language acquisition: An input process perspective. Paper presented at the X International Conference of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August, 1993.

Cadierno, T. El nuevo papel de la gramática en el aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua [The new role of gammar in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics, the University of Granada, Spain, September , 1992.

McClure, E., Cadierno, T & Mir, M. What do you include in a narrative ? A comparison of the written narratives of Mexican and American fourth, sixth, and ninth graders. Paper presented at the Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, April, 1992.

Cadierno, T. An investigation of the impact of instruction on how L2 learners process input. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Second Language Research Forum Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, April, 1992.

Cadierno, T. Input processing in SLA: An experiment in explicit instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, WA, USA, February, 1992.

Cadierno, T. & Glass, B. L2 readers' processing of lexical and morphological forms in the input. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Chicago, IL., USA, August, 1991.

VanPatten, B. & Cadierno, T. SLA as input processing: A role for instruction. Paper presented at the Concordia University/McGill University Colloquium on the Role of Instruction in Second Language Acquisition, Montreal, Canada. July, 1991.

Cadierno, T. La situación sociolingüística en Asturias (España) [The sociolinguistic situation in Asturias (Spain)]. Paper presented at the 44th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, April, 1991.

Cadierno, T. & Glass, B. The communicative value of morphological and lexical cues as pocessed by L2 readers of Spanish. Paper presented at the third annual Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education Colloquium for the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL., USA, April, 1990.

Cadierno, T. Transferencias del inglés al español en el habla de estudiantes chicanos y anglohablantes [Transference from English into Spanish in the speech of Mexican-American and American speakers] . Paper presented at the annual Conference on The Spanish in the United States XI: An Interdisciplinary Conference, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, October, 1990.

Glass, B. & Cadierno, T. Competing forms in the input: An investigation of how learners process the past tense. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Miami Beach, FL., USA, August, 1990.

Glass, B. & Cadierno, T. A comparison of the communicative value of past tense verb morphemes and past tense temporal adverbs. Paper presented at the Second Conference on the Relationship between Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning, Champaign, IL., USA, April, 1990.

Cadierno, T. & Prieto, P. Asturian nasal assimilation and the structure of complex segments. Paper presented at the Purdue Romance Language Conference, West Lafayette, IN., USA, October, 1989.



INVITED SPEAKER AT UNIVERSITY SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Invited plenary speaker at the Eighth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association: Thinking for speaking in an L2: From research findings to pedagogical implications. To be held at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz,  September 26th - 28th, 2018.

Invited plenary speaker at the International seminar on Thinking for Speaking: Motion events in second language acquisition: Moving beyond the study of verbalization of voluntary motion. Santiago de Compostela (Spain), June 6^th, 2017.

Invited plenary speaker at the XIX International seminar on First and Second Language Acquisition organized by the University of Alicante (Spain): Lingüística Cognitiva aplicada a la adquisición de segundas lenguas. Alicante, March 15-17, 2017.

Invited plenary speaker at the I Encuentro ProfELE Copenhague 2016, co-organized by the University of Copenhagen and Edinumen: ¿Influye la lengua en cómo categorizamos y describimos el mundo que nos rodea?  Aprender a ‘pensar para hablar’ en una lengua extranjera. University of Copenhagen, December 3, 2016

Invited speaker at Lund University: Talking about placement events in a second language: A bidirectional investigation. Lund: May 24, 2016.

Invited plenary speaker at the IV Jornadas de Formación de Profesores, organized by Edinumen:  ¿Influye la lengua en cómo conceptualizamos el mundo?: Aprender a ‘pensar para hablar’ en una segunda lengua. Hong Kong, March 11-12, 2016.

Invited plenary speaker at the Ph.D. workshop on Crosslinguistic influence in motion event encoding organized by the Institute of Multilingualism at The University of Fribourg: Talking about placement events in L2 Danish and L2 Spanish: A bi-directional investigation. Fribourg, October 7-8, 2015.

Invited plenary speaker at the Thinking, Doing, Learning International Conference (TDL2: Usage-based Perspectives on Second Language Learning): Towards a comprehensive framework for L2 Thinking-for-speaking research: The case of placement. Groningen: University of Groningen, June 3-5, 2015.

Invited keynote speaker at NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions: “Motion event descriptions in a second language: Where are we now?”. Tokyo (Japan), January 24 – 25, 2015. 

Invited lecturer at the MA program on Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition in Multilingual contexts, University of Barcelona: “Thinking for speaking in a second language: What do we know so far?”. Barcelona, November 26th, 2014.

Invited speaker at Final Workshop / ANR-DFG project Langacross II (2011-2014) on Linguistic diversity and cognition: Implications for first and second language acquisition: “Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of placement events: Research on L1 and L2 speakers of Danish and Spanish”. Lille (France), June 20-21, 2014.

Invited speaker at Bergen University: “Usage-based linguistics and second language teaching". June 2-3, 2014.

Invited keynote speaker at the Ph.D. workshop on “Mixed Methods in SLA Research: Benefits and Challenges”: “Usage-based linguistics and second language acquisition: A fruitful paradigm for mixed-methods research?” University of Barcelona, 25-26 November 2013.

Invited keynote speaker at the Encuentro de Profesores de Español de Escandinavia: “¿Qué puede aportar la Lingüística Cognitiva a la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras?” Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm (Sweden) http://www.encuentro-estocolmo.com/

Invited lecturer at M.A. course on “Usage-based linguistics and second language  acquisition.” University of the Basque Country, Vitoria (Spain), 2013.

Invited keynote speaker at the 31st International Conference of the Spanish Association of Spanish Applied Linguistics (AESLA): “Lenguaje y pensamiento en acción: Aprender a pensar para hablar en una segunda legua” Universidad de la Laguna, Canary Islands (Spain).

Invited keynote speaker at the XXI Encuentro Práctico de  Profesores de ELE. Barcelona (Spain). “Lingüística cognitiva y enseñanza de lenguas extranjera, 2012.

Invited speaker at the Danish National Conference on “Fremmedsprog på de videregående uddannelser” (Foreign language at the educational tertiary level): “Organization and implementation of foreign language teaching on the basis of instructed SLA research and L2 teaching methodology.”, 2012.

Ph.D. course on “Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition”, and Research methods in cognitive linguistics and SLA. Universidad de Granada (Spain), 2012.

Invited lecturer at a Ph.D. course on “Constructing meaning in language acquisition”, organized by the NTNU Ph.D. Programme in Linguistics and the Norwegian National Ph.D. School in Linguistics and Philology, Trondheim: Second language acquisition from a usage-based / cognitive linguistics perspective, 2011.

Invited presenter at the Workshop on Second Language Acquisition and Spatial Language, organized in relation to the 17th European Second Language Acquisition Conference, NewCastle, England: “Motion across spatial boundaries: Does the learner’s L1 make a difference?”, 2007 

Invited lecturer at the University of Aarhus on a seminar on second language acquisition: “El papel de la gramática en la adquisición de lenguas extranjeras” [The role of grammar in foreign language teaching], 2006.

Invited presenter at the seminar on “Cognitive-interactionist approaches to instructed language learning” at the University of Jaume I, Valencia, Spain: “Form-meaning mappings in second language acquisition: Insights from cognitive linguistics in the semantic domain of motion.”, 2005.

Invited lecturer at the University of the Basque Country (Vitoria) to teach a Ph.D. course on “Second Language Acquisition: Theoretical perspectives and Research Methodologies”, 2002

Invited lecturer at the “Fællesromansk Møde om Grammatik på Grunduddanelsen: Sprogtilegnelse og grammatik – teori og praksis”. Seminar: “Different types of formal instruction, and its differential effects on second language acquisition.” , 2000.

Invited lecturer. University of Potsdam (Germany): Seminar: "On the role of formal instruction in SLA: Theoretical perspectives and empirical studies.”, 1999.

Invited lecturer. University of Stockholm (Sweden). Seminars: "Input processing and SLA" and "El aprendizaje del pretérito e imperfecto por estudiantes daneses de español" [The learning of Spanish preterite and imperfect by Danish students of Spanish], 1997.

Invited lecturer at the Master Program on the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, University of Alcala (Madrid, Spain). Seminars: "Teoría del procesamiento del input y el papel de la enseñanza gramatical en la adquisición de una segunda lengua" [Input processing theory and the role of grammar teaching in the acquisition of a second language] and "Modo de acción y adquisición del pretérito e imperfecto por estudiantes de español con danés como lengua materna" [Aktionsart and the acquisition of preterite and imperfect by students of Spanish with Danish as a L1], 1996.

Invited lecturer at the Linguistic Colloquium, Business School of Economics, Aarhus (Denmark). Seminar: "On the role of formal instruction in SLA.", 1995.

Invited lecturer. University of Granada (Spain). Seminars: "Implicaciones pedagógicas de las investigaciones sobre la adquisición de segundas lenguas" [Pedagogical implications of research into second language acquisition"] and "El papel de la gramática en la adquisición de una segunda lengua" [The role of grammar in second language acquisition]., 1995.

Invited lecturer at the Open University Courses organized by the Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language pedagogy, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Seminar: "The role of formal instruction from a processing perspective.", 1994.

Invited lecturer. Deparment of Nordic Languages, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Seminar: "Grammar teaching and input processing theory", 1993.



PARTICIPATION IN EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS 

2014-2018: Leader of the project financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research on The younger, the better?: A usage-based approach to learning and teaching of English in Danish primary schools. Granted funding: 890.000 EU

2013 - 2017.  Member of the Marie Curie Multi-Partner ITN project (Seventh Framework Program of the European Union): Language and perception (LanPercept). Grant agreement number 316748. Granted funding: 4,152,363.18 EU

2014 - 2018: Member of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness-financed project on The EFL learning potential of in- and out-of-school exposure, with a focus on undubbed videos. Effects of age, proficiency and cognitive differences, led by Prof. Carmen Muñoz (University of Barcelona). Granted funding 64.130 EU

2014 – 2018: Member of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness-financed project on Movimiento y espacio desde la tipología semántica II: Nuevos retos y nuevas aplicaciones en la traducción y la adquisición (FFI2013-45553-C3-1-P), led by Prof. Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (University of Zaragoza). Granted funding: 50000 EU

2010 – present: Member of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation-financed project on Movement and space from a semantic typological perspective, and its application to translation and language acquisition (FFI2010-14903). Granted money: 113.740 EUR

2009 – present: Leader of the Velux Fond financed project on Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition (UB-SLA) (http://www.vkr-fondene.dk/Page.aspx?ID=aa34336d-b868-4007-b372-3d0b040d44ec&Lang=da). Granted money: 4.927.107 DKK

2008 – 2010: Member of the NordForsk-financed project on Spatial categorization and language across populations (http://www.nordforsk.org/text.cfm?id=508). Granted money: 1.000.000 NOK

2005 – 2008: Member of the SHF-financed project on Global Communication in Danish companies. Granted money: 1.700.000 DKK

1999 - 2003: Member of the SHF- financed project on Cognition, Language and Consciousness: Language Acquisition and Language Use in the Interplay between Psycholinguistics and Social Psychology (Odense Project on Language Acquisition). Granted money: 2.200.000 DKK

May 1995: Member of the EU Commission-financed project on The acquisition of second and foreign languages in school: What the research says?, organized by the University of Liege, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Liege, Belgium.



LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

January 2017 - present: Leader of the Center for Language Learning (University of Southern Denmark)

2014 - 2018:  Leader of the Danish Council for Independent Research- financed project on The younger, the better?: A usage-based approach to learning and teaching of English in Danish primary schools.

2009 – present: Leader of the Velux Fond financed project on Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition (UB-SLA) 

February 2009- present: Leader of the Second Language Research Center (SELC), organized across the Institute of Language and Communication, and the Institute of Business Communication and Information Technology, University of Southern Denmark (www.selc.dk)

2004-2005: Head of the Spanish Department. University of Southern Denmark, Odense.



OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 

2014. Co-organizer (with Marjolijn Verspoor) of the colloquium on Usage-based approaches to L2 teaching: Providing the right exposure? GURT (Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics) 14. Washington, DC: March 14-16, 2014.

2013. Co-organizer (with Andrea Tyler and Marjolijn Verspoor) of the colloquium on Usage-based approaches to SLA. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2013). Dallas: March 16 - 19, 2013. 

2013. Co-organizer (with Søren W. Eskildsen) of the international conference on Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspective on language learning. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, April 24-26 (www.selc.dk).

2010. Co-organizer (with Søren W. Eskildsen) of the symposium on “What’s in your mind: Thinking for speaking and second language acquisition”, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

2009. Member of the international advisory board committee in charge of organizing the International Conference on Figurative Language Learning and Figurative Language Use: Theory and Applications at the University of La Rioja, Spain.

2008. Co-organizer (with Nick Ellis, University of Michigan) of the symposium on “Constructing a Second Language” at the International Conference of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2008). Essen, Germany.

2007. Co-organizer (with Søren W. Eskildsen) of the symposium on “Cognition Applied: Usage-based linguistics and language acquisition”, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

2000. Participant of the project established by The University of Southern Denmark (Odense campus) and secondary schools on Fyn with the aim of creating a bridge between secondary and university education (under “Udviklingsprogrammet for fremtidens ungdomsuddanelser”). The project involves meetings between two secondary teachers and two university teachers of Spanish with the aim of establishing a week course at our university in the spring for third year high school students interested in this language.

2000. Co-organizer (with Sharon Millar) of the symposium on "Metalinguistic awareness: Theoretical and methodological perspectives". University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

1999- 2006. Member of the staff-student committee (studienævn) in the Department of Spanish. University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
1997. Co-organizer (with Rineke Brouwer) of the conference on "L2 Listening Comprehension". University of Southern Denmark, Odense.



MEMBER OF JOURNAL / FOUNDATION ADVISORY BOARDS 

2017 – present: Member of the editorial board of the journal The Modern Language Journal

2017- present:  Associate member of the Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Language Sciences (CARILS) at the University of Portsmouth (England)

2016 – present     Member of SDU’s “Forskingsstøtteråd” at the Faculty of Humanities

2016 – present     Member of the International Advisory Board for the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Española (ILCE) ‘Institute for Spanish Language and Culture” at the University of Navarra (Spain).

2016 – present     Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Review of Cognitive Linguistics.

2012 – present: Member of the Editorial Board for Portal Edition, section on Spanish as a Foreign Language 

2014 – present Member of the Board of Board of Referees for Atlantis, the journal of the Spanish Association of English Studies

2014 – present Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the new Open Access journal Open Linguistics, Mouton De Gruyter

2014 – present Advanced academic advisor of the Research Centre for Language and Cognition at Shenzhen University (China)

2014 – present Associate member of Centre for Applied Research and Outreach in Language Education at the University of Greenwich

2013 – present Member of the Scientific Committee for AELCO (Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (http://www.aelco.es/)

2013- present Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge)
(http://education.portaleditions.com/quienessomosColeccion7.php) 

2012 – present Member of the Editorial Board for Portal Edition, section on Spanish as a Foreign Language (http://education.portaleditions.com/quienessomosColeccion7.php)


2010 – present:  Member of the Editorial Board for the Continuum Issues in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research (CIISLAR) (http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/alrg/book-series)

2009- present: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the RæL-REVISTæLECTRÓNICA DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA, published by the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extrev?codigo=6978)

2008- present: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, published by Vigo University Press (http://webs.uvigo.es/vialjournal)

2007-present: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the series on Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition (CS&SLA), published by Lawrence Erlbaum.

2006- present: Member of the Editorial Board for the journal Revista Nebrija de Lingüística aplicada a la enseñanza de lenguas (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid).

2008- present: Member of the Advisory Board for the Birthe and Knuds Togebys Fond. Copenhagen University.



ACADEMIC EVALUATION

Reviewer for the following journals: 
Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press), Applied Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press), Atlantis (Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter), Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (Universidad Distrital in Bogotá), Frontiers in Language Sciences (Frontiers Media SA), International Review of Applied Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter), Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier), Language and Cognition (Mouton de Gruyter), Language Learning (Blackwell), Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (John Benjamins) Rask– International Journal for Language and Communication (University of Southern Denmark Press), Revue Romane (John Benjamins), Southwest Journal of Linguistics (Linguistic Association of the Southwest), Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Taylor and Francis), Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press), The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press), and The Modern Language Journal  (Blackwell). 

External reviewer for the following foundations:

German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). Project title: Narrative-embedded motion events: a developmental cross-linguistic study with monolinguals and bilinguals, Fall 2017

The NRO programme in the Netherlands (http://www.nro.nl/onderwijsonderzoek2016-2019/).  Project title: Learning English as a Second Language in Elementary School: The Role of Out-of-School-Environment and Classroom Contextual Factors, Spring 2016.

The Spanish Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP). Project title: Incidencia del factor etario en la conectividad funcinal cerebral, proceso de adquisición del artículo español por hablantes de lenguas que carecen de este determinante. Fall 2015.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ‘The German Research Foundation’. Project title: Selective activation in multilingual minds: Translingual processing of motion events. Spring 2015.

The British Economic and Social Research Council. Project title: Foreign language learning success in children and adults: The role of explicit knowledge. Spring 2014.

Member of expert review group for The Danish Clearinghouse for Educational Research ( (Department of Education, Aarhus University) in the elaboration of the following technical report: Dyssegaard, C.B., Egeberg, J., de H., Sommersel, H.B., Steenberg, K., & Vestergaard, S. (2014). A systematic research mapping of the impact of multiple language teaching, prior language experience and acquisition order on students’ language proficiency in primary and secondary school. Copenhagen: Danish Clearinghouse for Educational Research, Department of Education, Aarhus University.

The Luxemburg National Research Foundation. Project title: A Preschool Oral Language Intervention for Language-Minority Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Spring 2013.

The American National Science Foundation (NSH): Project proposal 1053010, Fall 2010; Project proposal 1147563, Fall 2011 

The Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Project file PR-10-77. Project submitted within the framework of the Open Competition Research Programmes, Spring 2011.


Participation in valuation committees: 

Member for the position of assistant professor in the area of Spanish second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy. University of Copenhagen, fall 2014 – spring 2015.

Member of the evaluating committee for tenure by Dr. Amanda Brown. Syracuse University, fall 2013.

Member of the evaluation committee for the position of associate professor in the area of Spanish pragmatics and for the position of assistant / associate professor in the area of Spanish second language acquisition. University of Copenhagen, spring 2013.

Member of the evaluation committee for the position of associate professor in Spanish linguistics. University of Stockholm, spring 2011. 

Member of the evaluation committee for the position of associate professor in Spanish linguistics at the University of Stockholm. Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.



PH.D. - RELATED ACTIVITIES

Member of Ph.D. committees: 

2017:  Irene Ter Avest:  More than words alone: Reference to motion in L3 learners’ oral narratives. University of Barcelona (Spain)

2017: Stephanie Hazel G. Wold: INGlish English: The progressive construction in learner narratives. Bergen University (Norway)

2017: Chairman of the Ph.D. committee for Fabio Trecca’s thesis:The impact of phonetic structures on language processing and acquisition: The case of Danish. University of Southern Denmark, Odense

2015: Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado: Aprendizaje formal de ELE mediante actividades cooperativas de traducción pedagógica con atención a la forma [Formal learning of Spanish as a second  language via pedagogical translation cooperative activities with focus on form]. University of Granada (Spain)

2014 María Andria: “Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of Greek a foreign language by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners: The role of proficiency and stays abroad.” Deparment of English and German Philology. University of Barcelona (Spain).

2013 Nguyen Thi Phuong Hong: “A Dynamic Usage-based Approach to Second Language Teaching”. Department of English. University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

2008. Rachel Kirk: “Los efectos de la instrucción basada en el procesamiento y la producción en la adquisición de subordinadas con subjuntivo e infinitivo en la enseñanza del español a alumnos anglohablantes” [The effects of input-based and output-based instruction in the acquisition of subjunctive subordinate clauses by English-speaking speakers of Spanish]. Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain.

2008. Rakel Österberg’s thesis: “Motivación, aptitud y desarrollo estructural: Un estudio sobre la actuación lingüística en aprendientes suecos de español L2” [Motivation, aptitute and structural development: An investigation into the linguistic performance of Swedish learners of L2 Spanish]. Stockholm University, Sweden.

2007. María Bernal Linnersand’s thesis “Categorización sociopragmática de la cortesía y de la descortesía” [Socio-pragmatic categorization of politeness and unpoliteness]. Stockholm University, Sweden.

2000. Chairman of the Ph.D. committee for Therese Hauge’s thesis “Summarisation and information search in second language reading: A quantitative-qualitative study of young adult beginners.” The University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

1998. Chairman of the Ph.D. committee for Dorthe Bleses’ thesis: “Psykolongvistiske metoder og sprogtilegnelsesmodeller:undersøgelser af danske børns tilegnelse af verbers præteritum og af fortalelseskorpora, baseret på eksperimentelle og naturlige data.” The University of Southern Denmark, Odense.



Ph. D. advisor

University of Southern Denmark: 

2014 Moiken Jessen. Title of the thesis: The expression of motion in L2 Danish by Turkish and German learners - the role of inter- and intratypological differences Ph.D. project financed by Velux-Fond.

2014 Peiwen Li. Title of the thesis: On the development of second language learners’ English motion constructions – a longitudinal usage-based classroom investigation. Ph.D. project financed by Velux-Fond.

Ongoing Projects:

Jalal El Derbas. Title of the thesis: Bilingualism from a usage-based perspective. Ph.D. project financed by Det Frie Forskningsråd i Kultur og Kommunkation [The Danish Free Research Council on Language and Communication].

Signe Jensen. Title of thesis: A usage-based approach to the use and effect of extramural English among early Danish learners of English Ph.D. project financed by Det Frie Forskningsråd i Kultur og Kommunkation [The Danish Free Research Council on Language and Communication].

Katalin Fenyvesi. Title of thesis: On the role of the age factor and socio-affective factors in the early acquisition of English by Danish children. Ph.D. project financed by Det Frie Forskningsråd i Kultur og Kommunkation [The Danish Free Research Council on Language and Communication].

Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain):

2012. Mertitxell Muñoz Carrasco. DEA project: “La transferencia bidireccional inglés-espanol en las situaciones de movimiento” [English-Spanish bidirectional transfer in the expression of motion events]. 

2009. Claudia Cortés. DEA Project : “Una propuesta de aplicación de la Gramática Cognitiva y del Foco en la Forma al tema de las perífrasis verbales ir + gerundio, venir + gerundio y andar + gerundio" [Appling cognitive grammar and focus on form to the Spanish verbal periphrases ir + gerundio, venir + gerundio y andar + gerundio].

2009. Reyes Llopis García. Ph.D. thesis: "Gramática cognitiva e instrucción de procesamiento para la enseñanza de la selección modal: Un estudio con aprendientes alemanes de español como lengua extranjera" [Cognitive grammar and input-based instruction for the teaching of modal section: An investigation into German-speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language].

2004. Maria Luisa Lomo Simavilla. DEA Project: “La enseñanza de expresiones metafóricas en el aula de ELE: Una perspectiva cognitiva” [The teaching of metaphoric expressions in the Spanish as a second language classroom].




HONORS AND AWARDS

2001. Winner of the “Fyns Stifstidendes” research price 2001. Nominated for the price by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark.

1996. Winner of the 1996 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - Modern Language Journal (ACTFL - MLJ) Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education. Award given for the best article published during 1995 in The Modern Language Journal: "Formal instruction from a processing perspective: An investigation into the Spanish past tense." The Modern Language Journal 79, 2: 179-193.

1995. Research grant awarded by the Humanities Faculty of Aarhus University (111.000 Dkr).

1991. Dissertation Research Grant awarded by the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1991. Selected by Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese as best student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education Ph. D. program 1991-92, and recommended for Graduate College Fellowship 1992-93.

1991. Tinker Field Research Grant awarded by the Department of Latin-American and Caribbean Studies for carrying out a sociolinguistic study on An investigation of the sociolinguistic situation in Asturias (Spain).

1981- 1991. Named to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students--  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1985. Study Abroad Scholarship at the University of Sheffield ( England ), awarded by the University of Oviedo ( Spain ).



PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

The Danish Association of Applied Linguistics
The Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics
The Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics



LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native
English: Near-Native
Danish: Advanced level

Research areas

Second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, with special focus on L2 input processing, the acquisition of grammar by adult L2 learners, and the role of formal instruction in adult L2 acquisition;

Second language acquisition from the theoretical perspective of usage-based / cognitive linguistics, with special focus on investigating L2 learning as the process of constructing a second language and learning to re-think for speaking, and the acquisition and teaching of L2 constructions for the expression of motion events by adult foreign language learners.

Research areas

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, with special focus on  the acquisition of grammar by adult L2 learners, L2 input processing and the role of formal instruction in adult L2 acquisition;

Second language acquisition from the theoretical perspective of usage-based / cognitive linguistics, with special focus on investigating L2 learning as the process of learning to re-think for speaking, and the acquisition and teaching of L2 constructions for the expression of motion events by foreign language learners.