I received a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University. I have taught second language learners of Japanese and English for over thirty years, and I teach a range of courses in the Department of Linguistics, where I have served as a program coordinator, associate chair and department chair. I was a first-generation university student who attended BYU because my role models as a young man were BYU alumni. While at BYU, I felt lost and like I did not belong on many occasions. However, several key professors made an enormous difference in my life. They were people of character who believed in me, and my life attests to the value of a BYU education and the BYU Mission and Aims. I aspire to follow the pattern of patient mentoring those kind professors modeled for me.
PhD, Second Language Acquisition, Carnegie Mellon University M.A., Language Acquisition (Japanese), Brigham Young University B.A., Japanese, Brigham Young University
Research Interests
My research has focused primarily on how people use and acquire a second languageoutside of the classroom (study abroad, foreign language housing, computer-assisted learning, etc.). I focuses on the social, psychological, cognitive and neurological variables that influence language acquisition. Much of my recent scholarship has focused on anxiety, motivation, self-regulation, and positive psychology. In 2020, I started a neuro-imaging lab in the College of Humanities Language Sciences Labs (https://languagescienceslaboratory.byu.edu/), and I now regularly do neurolinguistic researchusing functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). My primary aim in that research is to understand how social interaction influences language processing and acquisition. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1453-4153 Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GZbX20kAAAAJ&hl=en ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan_Dewey?ev=hdr_xprf
Teaching Interests
First language Acquisition (LING 461) https://catalog.byu.edu/courses/N3emqjqHtVkxuPmBDKuy Second Language Acquisition (LING 462) https://catalog.byu.edu/courses/mFsybZPT00k9v5Z8f6EA Language Acquisition (LING 640, Graduate) https://gradstudies.byu.edu/ling-640-language-acquisition History of the Book (ELING 524) https://catalog.byu.edu/courses/10049-003 Pragmatics (LING 335) https://catalog.byu.edu/courses/12434-000 Neurolinguistics (LING 561) https://catalog.byu.edu/courses/Cr4yrdCdeaY7edFZCeer
Administrative Assignments
Linguistics: Department Chair (2021 -
Present)
Courses Taught
Publications
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