Articles and book chapters

Publications since 2021

Otwinowska, A., Bergroth, M., & Zyzik, E. (2023). Supporting multilingual learners in educational contexts: Lessons from Poland, Finland, and California. In S. Björklund & M. Björklund, (Eds.) Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings.

Zyzik, E. & Marqués Pascual, L. (2023). Do you really know this word? Dimensions of vocabulary knowledge in Spanish textbooks. In I. Checa-García & L. Marqués-Pascual (Eds.), Current perspectives in Spanish lexical development (pp. 303-328). DeGruyter.

Zyzik, E. (2021). Algunas consideraciones sobre el conocimiento léxico de los hablantes de herencia. In J. Torres and D. Pascual y Cabo (Eds.), Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia. Routledge.

Published earlier (thru 2020)

Zyzik, E. (2020). Authenticity in the language teaching curriculum. In C. Chapelle (Ed.). The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

Llombart-Huesca, A. & Zyzik, E. (2019). Linguistic factors and the spelling ability of Spanish heritage language learners. Frontiers in Education. Open Access article.

Zyzik, E. (2019). Creativity and conventionality in heritage speaker bilingualism. Language Learning

Zyzik, E. & Sanchez, R. (2019). Beyond accuracy: Heritage speakers’ performance on two kinds of acceptability judgment tasks. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40(3), 645-671. 

Zyzik, E. (2018). Adquisición y enseñanza de segundas lenguas. In J. Muñoz-Basols, E. Gironzetti, and M. Lacorte (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2.

Zyzik, E. & Marqués Pascual, L. (2018). Practice with idioms: Can it promote the incidental learning of grammar? In C. Jones (Ed.), Practice in second language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zyzik, E. (2017). Subject expression in L2 Spanish: Convergence of generative and usage-based perspectives? Second Language Research, 33(1), 33-59

Zyzik, E. (2016). Towards a prototype model of the heritage language learner: Understanding strengths and needs. In M. Fairclough and S. Beaudrie (Eds.), Innovative approaches to heritage language teaching (pp. 19-38). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Ionin, T., & Zyzik, E. (2014). Judgment and interpretation tasks. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 3437-64.

Zyzik, E. (2014). Causative verbs in the grammar of Spanish heritage speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4(1)1-33.

Zyzik, E. (2014). Expressing causation in Spanish: A functional analysis of heritage speakers’ written production. Heritage Language Journal, 11(1)76-97.

Zyzik, E. (2014). Functional approaches to second language Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition.

Zyzik, E. (2013). Input based instructional approaches. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley. 

Zyzik, E., & Marqués, L.,  (2012). Spanish differential object marking: An empirical study of implicit and explicit instruction. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5387-421.

Zyzik, E. (2011). Second language idiom learning: The effects of lexical knowledge and pedagogical sequencing. Language Teaching Research, 15, 413-433.

Zyzik, E. (2010). Sin pelos en la lengua: El aprendizaje de los modismos del español.  Hispania, 93(3), 454-471.

Polio, C., and Zyzik, E. (2009). Don Quixote meets ser and estar: Multiple perspectives on language learning in Spanish literature classes. The Modern Language Journal, 93, 550-569.

Zyzik, E. (2009). Noun, verb, or adjective? L2 learners’ sensitivity to cues to word class. Language Awareness18, 147-164. 

Zyzik, E. (2009). The role of input revisited: Nativist and usage-based models. L2 Journal, 1, 42-61.

Zyzik, E., and Azevedo, C. (2009). Word class distinctions in second language acquisition: An experimental study of L2 Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 31(1), 1-29.

Zyzik, E., and Gass, S. (2008). Epilogue: A tale of two copulas. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11(3), 383-385. 

Zyzik, E. (2008). A novel format for teaching Spanish grammar: Lessons from the lecture hall. Foreign Language Annals41(3), 434-453. 

Zyzik, E. (2008).  Null objects in second language acquisition: Grammatical versus performance models.  Second Language Research24(1), 65-110. 

Zyzik, E. and Polio, C. (2008). Incidental focus on form in Spanish literature courses. The Modern Language Journal, 92(1), 50-73.

Ortega, L. and Zyzik, E. (2008). Online interactions and L2 learning: Some ethical challenges for L2 researchers. In S. Magnan (Ed.), Mediating discourse online (pp. 331-355). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Zyzik, E. (2006).  Transitivity alternations and sequence learning: Insights from L2 Spanish production data. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28(3), 449-485.

Zyzik, E. (2006).  Looking for missing objects in L2 Spanish. In N. Sagarra and A.J. Toribio (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 192-202). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

Zyzik, E. (2006).  Learners’ overgeneralization of dative clitics to accusative contexts: Evidence for prototype effects in SLA. In C. Klee and T. Face (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (pp. 122-134). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Blake, J., and Zyzik, E. (2003).  Who’s helping whom?  Learner/heritage-speaker networked discussions in Spanish.  Applied Linguistics, 24(4), 519-544.