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Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleProfessor

AffiliationFaculty

Web SiteLanguages
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Primary Office LocationHumanities Building 1
131

Office HoursFridays 12:15-1:45 and by appointment

Mail StopHumanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics, UC Davis (2004)

Research Interests

Spanish linguistics; second language acquisition; cognitive linguistics; usage-based theory of language acquisition; heritage languages; language pedagogy and curriculum design.

Selected Publications

Books

• Zyzik, E. & Bowles, M. (2025). The acquisition of Spanish: A research overview in multilingual contexts. Routledge.
• Zyzik, E. (2024). Vivencias: Lengua, cultura y sociedad a través de relatos sonoros. Cognella.
• Blake, R., & Zyzik, E. (2016). El español y la lingüística aplicada. Georgetown University Press. 
• Zyzik, E., & Polio, C. (2017). Authentic materials myths: Applying second language research to classroom teaching. University of Michigan Press.