Lynn Santelmann

Lynn Santelmann


Associate Professor

Applied Linguistics - Liberal Arts & Sciences

Courses Taught

  • LING 233: Language and the Mind 
  • LING 407: Senior Seminar: (Psycho)linguistics of games
  • LING 411/511: Syntax 
  • LING 418/518 Morphology
  • LING 433/533: Psycholinguistics 
  • LING 437/537: First Language Acquisition 
  • LING 438/538: Second Language Acquisition 
  • LING 480/580: Bilingualism 
  • LING 490/590: History of English
  • LING 565: Reading and Writing Research in Language Teaching and AL
  • Ling 566: Culminating Workshop

Research Interests

  • Language Acquisition 
  • Vocabulary learning (L1 and L2)
  • Morphology and structural relationships
  • Acquisition of the Germanic languages
  • Psycholinguistics and Adult Language Learning (Second Language Learning) 
  • Structural relationships
  • Relationship between vocabulary and language 
  • Scholarship of teaching
  • Learning the vocabulary and language of academia
  • Scholarship of teaching and linguistics within linguistics

Representative Publications

  • Santelmann, L. M. and Sydorenko, T. (forthcoming). Second language acquisition and the teaching of pragmatics. In S. Conrad, A. Hartig, and L. Santelmann, eds. The Cambridge Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • Santelmann, L. M., Stevens, D. D., & Martin, S. C. (2018). Fostering master’s students’ metacognition and self-regulation practices for research writing. College Teaching, 66(3), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2018.1446898
  • Santelmann, L. (under contract). Discontinuous dependent morphemes in German and English parental speech: Input differences between two languages. In G. Martohardjono and S. Flynn, eds., Language in Development:  A cross-linguistic perspective. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Education
  • Ph.D. Linguistics, minor in Cognitive Science, Cornell University 1995
  • M.A. Linguistics, Cornell University 1992
  • B.A. German, Minor Foreign Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1989