Dr. Rémi Van Compernolle

Biography

I joined the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon in 2012, completing my Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. My work focuses on the intersections of cognition, affect, and identity in second/foreign/additional language development. Drawing from Vygotskian cultural-historical psychology, my research examines opportunities for development co-constructed between people (e.g., teachers and students) and cultural artifacts (e.g., linguistic forms, semantic and pragmatic concepts) which are internalized and subsequently mediate cognition, affect, and identity performance. My work is carried out under formal educational conditions, focusing on classroom discourse and interaction, concept-based instruction, and dynamic assessment. I teach and advise graduate students on language acquisition theory, qualitative research methods, and interaction analysis inspired by Vygotskian theory, as well as undergraduate French courses across all levels and courses for the Applied Multilingual Studies program.

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