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Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning
Educational Psychology
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Research Biography

My research is heavily influenced and informed by linguistic theory. At the same time, my goal is to make deeper, broader connections between linguistics and various sub-fields of cognitive psychology. Overarching themes in my present work are (mis)interpretation in sentence processing, morphological processing during reading, and crosslinguistic research. In particular, at present I am or will soon be conducting experiments in sentence comprehension and production, visual word recognition, reading, and second language acquisition.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, Michigan State University, 2002
  • M.A., Applied Linguistics/TEFL, Ball State University, 1992
  • B.S., East Asian Studies, Augsburg College, 1988

Key Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004--
  • NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, 2002-2004
  • Assistant Professor, University of Aizu, Japan, 1993-1996

Activities & Honors

  • Arnold O. Beckman Award, Awarded to projects of special distinction or unusual promise for designation as Arnold O. Beckman Awards., Campus Research Board, 2008-2009
  • Review panel member, http://www.govtilr.org/, Interagency Language Roundtable, 2008
  • CUNY 2009 Proposal Reviewer, CUNY 2009, CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2008
  • Became a member of APS, APS, Association for Psychological Science, 2007- present
  • Was member of Faculty Adviroy Committee for SLRF, Second Language Research Forum, Second Language Research forum, 2007
  • Guest commentary, The News Gazette, 2005- present
  • Reviewer, Many of these journals are not APA journals, but no other appropriate choices are listed., American Psychological Association, 2003- present

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Faculty Summer Support: Reading, Comprehending, and Solving Algebraic Word Problems, Bureau of Educational Research, 2008
  • Principal Investigator, GRA Support: Lexical, Syntactic, and World Knowledge in Foreign Language Comprehension and Translation, Bureau of Educational Research, 2007
  • Principal Investigator, The Interaction of Two Languages in the Minds of Korean-English Bilinguals, Campus Research Board, 2006
  • Principal Investigator, Visual Word Processing in Korean, Campus Research Board, 2005
  • Principal Investigator, Exploring Multiple Representations Derived from a Single Linguistic Input, Campus Research Board, 2005

Selected Publications

  • Christianson, K. (2008). Sensitivity to changes in garden path sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 391-403.
  • Christianson, K. & Cho, H.Y. (2008) Interpreting null pronouns (pro) in isolated sentences. Lingua, 119(7), 989-1008.
  • Shin, J.-A. & Christianson, K. (in press). The status of dative constructions in Korean, English, and in the minds of Korean-English bilinguals. In H. Yamashita, J. Packard, & Y. Hirose (Eds.), Processing and Producing Head-final Structures. Springer.
  • Christianson, K., Williams, C. C., Zacks, R. T., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Misinterpretations of garden-path sentences by older and younger adults. Discourse Processes, 42, 205-238.
  • Schmitt, L. M., Christianson, K., & Gupta, R. (2006). Linguistic computing with UNIX tools. In A. Kao & S. Poteet (Eds.), Text mining and natural language processing (pp. 221-258). New York: Springer.

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