Interpreting language-learning data

Amanda Edmonds is a Maître de Conférences (associate professor) in linguistics and language didactics in the English Department at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Her research is focused on the acquisition of additional languages (namely French, English, and Spanish), with a focus on the acquisition of lexical competence and variation. She is also interested in issues surrounding methodology and in recent calls for methodological reform in the broader field of second language acquisition.

Pascale Leclercq is a Maître de Conférences (associate professor) in linguistics and language didactics in the English Department at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Her main research interests include the acquisition of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in L2 French and English, within a developmental perspective. She also investigates the impact of study abroad experience in L2 acquisition, and has a keen interest in research methodology.

Aarnes Gudmestad is an associate professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research centers on the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. In particular, she examines language variation and change of morphosyntactic structures in Spanish and French. Her work has also addressed critical issues in research methods, such as the operationalization of variables and statistical analyses.