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Eve C Zyzik
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Languages and Applied Linguistics
  • Phone
    831-459-3420 (office)
  • Email
  • Fax
    831-459-1925
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 131
  • Office Hours Monday 10-10:40; Friday 11:45-12:30 and by appointment
  • Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
  • Mailing Address
    • Humanities Academic Services
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Heritage Languages; Spanish as a Heritage Language; Language Development; Bilingualism, Multilingualism
  • Courses SPAN 150: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics, SPAN 114: Advanced Conversation and Composition, SPAN 153: Spanish as a Second Language, APLX 101: Second Language Acquisition, APLX 135/235: Second Language Teaching

Research Interests

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

Biography, Education and Training

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

Selected Publications

Books

  • 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.