Lecturers

Research Interests

I am an applied linguist and I work in second language acquisition (SLA) and sociolinguistics, specifically language variation and change. My research focuses on the role of social networks with native speakers in SLA during study abroad and in other target-language learning environments. I am also interested in second language pedagogy and how instructors can most effectively incorporate SLA theory, and evidence from SLA research, in the foreign or second language classroom.

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., French (Linguistics) with D.E. in SLA, University of California, Davis

M.B.A., Finance Concentration, Saint Mary's College of California

B.A., Economics/International Area Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Honors, Awards and Grants

Winner of The Modern Language Journal Research Article Award, "Best of MLJ 2022" (At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks during Study Abroad, Kennedy Terry, K., 2022).

Selected Publications

Books:

Kennedy Terry, K., & Bayley, R. (in press, 2024). Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research: Theory and Methods. Second Language Acquisition Research Series. New York: Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/Social-Network-Analysis-in-Second-Language-Research-Theory-and-Methods/Terry-Bayley/p/book/9781032005027

Peer-reviewed publications:

Regan, V., & Kennedy Terry, K. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2024). The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence. Special journal issue of Languages. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/NC5124VCIX

Kennedy Terry, K. (2023). Learning from Locals: The Impact of Social Networks with Target-Language Speakers during Study Abroad. L2 Journal, 15(2), 92-109. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5427b39g

Kennedy Terry, K. (2022). At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks during Study Abroad. The Modern Language Journal, 106(1), 245-266. [Winner of Best of Modern Language Journal 2022] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15404781?tabActivePane=undefined

Kennedy Terry, K. (2022). Social Networks. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition (pp. 113-125). New York: Routledge.

Kennedy Terry, K. (2022). Sociolinguistic variation in L2 French: what schwa deletion patterns reveal about language acquisition during study abroad. In R. Bayley, D. R. Preston, & X. Li (Eds.), Variation in second and heritage languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives (pp. 279-310). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kennedy Terry, K. (2017). Contact, Context, and Collocation: The Emergence of Sociostylistic Variation in L2 French Learners during Study Abroad. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 39(3), 553-578.

Kennedy Terry, K., & Russell, E. (2013). Modeling the emergence of a typological anomaly: vowel nasalization in French. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 155-169.

Teaching Interests

Academic writing (Introduction to Composition, Rhetoric & Inquiry, Writing in the Natural Sciences), sociolinguistics, language & identity, French as a foreign language, English as a second language