Cindy Brantmeier

Professor Cindy Brantmeier (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish. She is Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in Language Instruction, Director of the Undergraduate Minor in Applied Linguistics, and Director of Teaching Assistant Training. She oversees the advanced language courses in Spanish and department placement and assessment. She also serves on the MAT board for Spanish and French teachers. Professor Brantmeier teaches courses on linguistics and language learning, second language reading and writing, language teaching methodology, phonology and dialectology, and language learning and technology.

Professor Brantmeier is the principal investigator in the Language Research Laboratory. Her empirical investigations concern adult second language reading, language research methodology, testing and assessment, and language learning and technology. Her edited and co-edited book and volumes include Empirical research on adult foreign language reading (Ed., 2009, forthcoming), Adult foreign language reading: Theory, research and implications (Ed., 2004), Reading in languages other than English (Co-edited with Keiko Koda, 2009, forthcoming), and Revisiting the MLA report on reconfiguring language programs: The role of reading (Co-edited with Diana Pulido, 2010, forthcoming,). Her work (over 30 articles and book chapters) has appeared in journals such as The Modern Language Journal, System, Foreign Language Annals, Reading in a Foreign Language, among others. She has given invited presentations of her research in Argentina, Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Republic of Georgia, The Netherlands, Oxford (UK), and the USA.

Professor Brantmeier holds affiliate appointments in the Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology program, the Linguistics program, the Department of Education, and the Learning Sciences program.