Alissa Hartig

Alissa Hartig


Associate Professor

Applied Linguistics - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Office:
UCB UCB 335Q
Hours:
Office Hours
day of the week start time end time
Wed: 3:30 pm 4:30 pm
Phone:
(503) 725-9986

Courses Taught

  • LING 334U: "You Have the Right to Remain Silent": Language and the Law
  • LING 391: Introduction to Applied Linguistics
  • LING 392: Structure of English
  • LING 407: Senior Seminar in Language and Law
  • LING 410/510: Teaching Second Language Writing
  • LING 421/521: Applied English Grammar
  • LING 435/535: Theory and Practice of Applied Linguistics
  • LING 470/570: Grammar for TESOL
  • LING 471/571: Understanding the International Experience
  • LING 476/576: Corpus Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Disciplinary epistemologies
  • Language and law
  • Language in STEM education
  • Discourse analysis
  • Interaction and learning
  • Sociocultural theory

Representative Publications

  • Takyiakwaa, D., Makoni, S., Khasandi-Telewa, I. V., & Hartig, A. J. (Eds.). (2025). Critical perspectives on decoloniality: Southern epistemologies and epistemologies of the Souths. Multilingual Matters.
  • Hartig, A. J. (2025). Connecting disciplinary and linguistic knowledge in concept-based instruction. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 10(2), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.3138/lst-2024-0018
  • El-Mansy, S. Y., Stephens, A., Mortensen, A., Francis, J. M., Feldman, S., Sahnow, C. A., Barbera, J., & Hartig, A. J. (2024). Factors affecting individuals’ cognitive engagement during group work in General Chemistry: Timing, group size, and question type. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 25, 799 - 814. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RP00279A
  • Conrad, S., Hartig, A. J., & Santelmann, L. (Eds.). (2021). The Cambridge introduction to applied linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
  • Hartig, A. J. (2017). Connecting language and disciplinary knowledge in English for Specific Purposes: Case studies in law. Multilingual Matters. 
  • Hartig, A. J., & Lu, X. (2014). Plain English and legal writing: Comparing expert and novice writers. English for Specific Purposes, 33, 87-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2013.09.001
Education
  • PhD, Applied Linguistics
    Penn State University
  • BA, French Language and Literature
    New York University