Melissa A Bowles
Associate Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Director of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Contact Information
- Address: 4080 FLB
- Telephone: (217)244-3944
- Email: bowlesm@illinois.edu
Office Hours
- Fall 2011: Mondays 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Specializations / Research Interest(s)
classroom second language acquisition, heritage language acquisition, language testing and assessment,Education
- Georgetown University, Ph.D. (with distinction)
- Georgetown University, M.S.
- University of Virginia, B.A. (with highest distinction)
Distinctions / Awards
- Helen Corley Petit Scholar (AY2011-2012), College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Publications
Books
- Bowles, Melissa A. The think-aloud controversy in language acquisition research. Routledge, 2010.