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Ana I. Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Ave
El Paso, Texas 79968
Phone: (915) 747-7365
E-mail: aischwartz@utep.edu
Lab Affiliation: Psycholinguistic Research On Bilingualism And Reading (PROBAR lab)
Research Interests:
Bilingual lexical representation and reading comprehension processes; bilingual emergent literacy and vocabulary acquisition; second language pedagogy and teacher preparation; eye-tracking methodology
Recent Publications:
Schwartz, A. I., Kroll, J. F., & Diaz, M. (in press). Reading words in Spanish and English: Mapping orthography to phonology in two languages. Language and Cognitive Processes.
Schwartz, A. I., & Kroll, J. F. (in press). Language comprehension in bilingual speakers. To appear in M. Traxler & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Schwartz, A. I., Kroll, J.F. (2006). Bilingual lexical activation in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 197-212.
Kroll, J.F., Sumutka, B. M., Schwartz, A. I. (2005). A cognitive view of the bilingual lexicon: Reading and speaking words in two languages. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 9, 1, 27-48.
Schwartz, A. I.(2002). National Standards and the diffusion of innovation: Language teaching in the USA. In S.J. Savignon (Ed.) Interpreting communicative language teaching: Contexts and concerns in teacher education (pp.112-130) Yale University Press.