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Cathy Doughty
Area Director, Second Language Acquisition

Area: Second Language Acquisition

Education:
  • B.A., Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, 1978
  • M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1982
  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988

Research Interests:
  • Second language acquisition

CASL Research Projects:

Marine Corps Short Course in Arabic

Pathways to Success: NSA and State Foreign Language Professionals

Technology Mediated Language Training

Hi-Level Language Aptitude Battery

Selected Publications:

The measurement of language aptitude and high-level L2 abilities

Portraits of Successful Foreign Language Professionals

High-level Language Aptitude Battery

New constructs in language aptitude

A Task-based Needs Analysis of a Tertiary Korean as a Foreign Language Program

Innovative curriculum for the very advanced learner

Designing psycholinguistically valid instruction

Commentary: When PI is focused on form it is very very good, but when it is focused on forms...

Effects of Instruction on Learning a Second Language: A Critique of Instructed SLA Research

Aptitude for Advanced Language Learning

Aptitude for foreign language learning

The Nessa Wolfson Lecture: "Designing psycholinguistically valid classroom instruction"

Psycholinguistically valid instructional design

Optimal Psycholinguistic Environments for Distance Foreign Language Learning

Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Optimal Psycholinguistic Environments for Distance Foreign Language Learning

Optimal Psycholinguistic Environments for Distance Foreign Language Learning

An evaluation of scoring methods for verbal working memory measures

Predicting near-native L2 ability

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