Julie Sykes

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ortega
(505) 277-5907
E-mail:@unm.edu

Research areas:

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

Julie Sykes received her PhD from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. Her specializations include in Spanish Applied Linguistics, emerging technologies/CALL, and L2 pragmatic acquisition. She also holds a graduate certificate in School Technology Leadership from the University of Minnesota. She has presented and published on lexical development and web-based, self-access instruction for learners in addition to L1 Spanish research in the areas of phonology, translation, and pragmatics. Her most recent project entails the creation, implementation, and empirical investigation of the first synthetic immersive gaming environment for learning Spanish pragmatics, Croquelandia.