Julie Sykes

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ortega 425
E-mail:@unm.edu

Research areas:

• Second Language Acquisition
• Immerging Digital Media and Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Interlanguage Pragmatic Development
• Spanish Pragmatics

Julie M. Sykes (Ph.D., Minnesota) is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics. Her research focuses on the use of digital games for language acquisition, with a specific focus on interlanguage pragmatic development and intercultural competence. Sykes’ recent projects include the design, implementation, and evaluation of Croquelandia (a synthetic immersive gaming environment for learning pragmatics) as well as the use of place-based, augmented reality mobile games (Mentira) to engage language learners in a variety of non-institutional contexts. She has presented and published various articles on CALL-related topics including synchronous computer-mediated communication and pragmatic development, gaming and CALL, and lexical acquisition in digitally mediated environments.