2006. ‘Learner Difficulties with German Case: Implications from an Action Research Study.’ (With R. Ritterbusch and M. Agustin). Die
Unterrichtspraxis: The Pedagogy Journal of the American Association of Teachers of German 39/1-2: 30-45.

2006. Review of Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching, ed. Keith Johnson. Appeared on Linguist List 17.2578, Wed Sep 13,
2006. < http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID= 85954 >.

2006. Book notice for Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition. by Thomas, Margaret. Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 82/4: 961.

2005. ‘Linguistics in Language Teacher Education.’ (With S. Dogancay-Aktuna). Expanding the Language Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base. Academic Exchange Quarterly 9/2: 270-27.

2005 Review of The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester. Language Policy, 4:217-219.

2005. Review of Cheng, L. and Sybesma, R. (eds). 2002. The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Appeared on Linguist List 16.23, Mon. Jan. 10, 2005. <http://linguist-mirror .ling.su.se/issues/16/16-23.html >

2003. Something from nothing: Historical changes from null to overt pronouns in French. In D. Eric Holt (ed.), Optimality Theory and Language Change. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 387-412.

2003. Putting the Pieces Together: Second Language Learning of Null Subjects, Inversion, and That-trace. In Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002), ed. Juana M. Liceras et al., 168-175. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2003. Review of Hulk and Pollock, Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar. Appeared on LINGUIST LIST 14.2751, Sun Oct 12 2003.<http://linguistlist.org/ issues/14/14-2751. html#1>

2002. Learner Access in the Virtual Classroom: The ethics of Assessing Online Learning. Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing and Webbed Environments 7.3 (Fall 2002). <http://138.87.106.99/ cw2002/kairos/>

2001. Constraint demotion and null-subjects in Spanish L2 acquisition. (With R. Hayes and R. Bhatt). In Joaquim Camps and Caroline Wiltshire (eds.), Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 121-135.

2001. Book review of Tesar and Smolensky, Learnability and Optimality Theory. Appeared on LINGUIST LIST 12.970, Fri Apr 6 2001. http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL- WorkingDirs/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=4143>

2001. The pro-drop parameter in second language acquisition revisited: A developmental account. Rutgers Optimality Archive 488-0102 . [Note: archival submission only] Available online: http://roa.rutgers.edu/ 249 pp.

2000. Titanic tales: Detecting deception in written narratives. Columbia, SC: Carolina Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 1, No.1, January.

2007. ‘Motivation, age, and L2 phonological development.’ 30th Annual Second Language Research Forum. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. October. (With E. Burke)

2007. ‘When the word becomes the way: linguistic theory in TESL practice.’ 5th International Conference on Language Teacher Education,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. May. (With S. Dogancay-Aktuna & J. Hardman)

2007. ‘Environment’ as Shibboleth: Lexical Choices and the Political Divide.’ CAS Spring Colloquium, SIUE. April.

2006. ‘L2 Expression of Motion Events by Speakers of Spanish and Catalan.’ Mid-America Conference on Linguistics. SIUE. October.

2006. ‘Mixed Blessings: Religious Impulse and Linguistic Inquiry’ presented at the Faith and Language: The Role of Religion in Applied Linguistics Roundtable, CAS Spring Colloquium, SIUE. April.

2005. L2 acquisition of morphosyntactic features. 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Madison, Wisconsin. July 2005. (With R. Ritterbusch and M. Augustin)

2005. The Acquisition of Second Language Lexical Patterns. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky. April 2005. (With R. Gaines)

2005. Shaping Masculine Identity in a Second Language Community. CAS Spring Colloquium, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

2004. L2 Acquisition of English Motion Events. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon. May 2004. (With R. Gaines)

2004. Developing an international practicum for MATESOL programs. 38th Annual TESOL, Long Beach, California. March 2004.

2004. TESOL teacher trainees and linguistic theory: friends or foes? Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii. January, 2004 (With S. Dogancay-Aktuna)

2003. Acquisition of Case by L2 learners of German. 32nd Annual Linguistic Association for the Southwest (LASSO), Edinburg, Texas. October 2003. (With R. Ritterbusch)

2003. Evaluating the effectiveness of TESOL linguistics training. 37th Annual TESOL, Baltimore, Maryland. March 2003. (With S. Dogancay-Aktuna)

2002. TESOL teacher training and World Englishes. International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. October 2002.

2002. Redundancy avoidance and second language overgeneralization. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). University of Toronto. October 2002.

2002. Learner access in the virtual classroom: The ethics of assessing online learning. Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University. May 2002.

2002. Putting the pieces together: Second language learning of null subjects, inversion, and that-trace. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). University of Ottawa. April 2002.

2002. Something borrowed, something new: Rethinking L1 influence in the acquisition of an L2. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). University of Kentucky. April 2002.

2001. Intermingled influences in second language social interaction. Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia. November 2001.

2001. Grammar learning in SLA: Conflict, constraint demotion and convergence. 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. October 2001.

2001. Optimality theory, constraint demotion, and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona. February 2001. (With R. Hayes & R. Bhatt).

2001. Understanding diachronic changes from null to overt pronouns in French. 75th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Washington, DC. January 2001.

2000. When must it, can't it, might it BE. Linguistics section (SECOL LXIII) of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Birmingham, AL. November 2000.

2000. Don't stop now: A learning strategy your students can take with them beyond the business communication classroom. 65th Annual Convention of The Association of Business Communication (ABC), Atlanta, GA. October 2000. (With M. Thomas).

2000. Social Units, competence, and power: Repertoire constraints in second language discourse. Graduate Student Day, University of South Carolina. April 2000.

2000. Interface constraints in Romance language SLA. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). MIT. April 2000. (With R. Hayes & R. Bhatt).

2000. Constraint demotion and null subjects in Spanish L2 Acquisition. 30th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Univ. of Florida , February 2000. (With R. Hayes & R. Bhatt).

1999. Competition, conflict, and optimality in L2 Acquisition. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, September 1999. (With R. Hayes & R. Bhatt).

1999. Detecting deception in written narratives. 60th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), Norfolk, VA, April 1999.

1998. The more I learn, the more I forget: L1 attrition in an L2 environment. Linguistics section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, November 1998.

1998. L1 Attrition and the Revised Hierarchical Model of L2 Acquisition. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), University of Hawaii at Manoa, October 1998.

1998. Titanic Tales: ESL competence and the Gricean maxims. Southeast Regional TESOL Conference (SETESOL), Louisville, KY, October 1998.

1997. Basbøll scores with the Greeks: Evaluating theories of sonority. Linguistics section of the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, November 1997.

1997. Lexical changes in the worship materials of American Lutheran churches: 1945-present. Old Dominion University Graduate Student Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 1997.

2006. ‘Second Language Acquisition Research and Teaching: Current Trends and Advances.’ 3-day, 15-hour, workshop at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Cuernavaca, Mexico. July.

2006. ‘Linguistic Theory and L2 Pedagogy.’ Daldays (Departament d'Anglès i Lingüística,) University of Lleida, Spain. May.

2005. ‘TESL Training for Educators. Workshop on Cultural Issues.’ Rend Lake Community College, Mt. Vernon, IL. August.

2005. Second Language Acquisition: New Developments for TESOL. Southwestern Illinois College. Workshop for ESL Teachers. January 2005.

2004. Issues in EFL Teacher Training. 38th Annual TESOL, Long Beach, California.March 2004. Roundtable discussion.

2003. Cuernavaca on (almost) $5 a Day: Learning While Helping Others. Speech at Crossing Borders: Adventures in Study Abroad, hosted by the SIUE Foreign Language Department. October 2003

2000. When it's better left unsaid: Second language acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface. Colloquium at the Univ. of South Carolina, February 2000. (With R. Hayes).

1998. Second Language Learning and TESL Pedagogy. ESL Tutor Training Workshop of the Greater Columbia Literacy Council, Columbia, SC, September 1998.

1998. Attrition of L1 Vocabulary Knowledge: Loss or Hindered Access? B.L. Pearson Award Linguistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina, April 1998.