Fong, Sandiway | SLAT | Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

sandiway@arizona.edu

Phone

(520) 626-0549

Office

Douglass 311

Personal Site

https://linguistics.arizona.edu/user/sandiway-fong

Fong, Sandiway

Associate Professor

Home Departments: Linguistics and Computer Science

Affiliation: Cognitive Science GIDP

SLAT Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning, Technology of Second Language Teaching Minor/Certificate

Dr. Fong is a computational linguist who is interested in all aspects of language and computation. He directs the Human Language Technology (HLT) Master's Program at the University of Arizona, and he is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science GIDP and SLAT.

Research Interests: The intersection of Linguistics and Computation

Area of Specialization

Cognitive dimensions of L2 learning

Linguistic dimensions of L2 learning

Technology in Second Language Teaching (minor)

Currently Teaching

LING 508 – Computational Techniques for Linguists

Students are introduced to computer programming as it pertains to collecting and analyzing linguistic data. The particular programming language is chosen at the discretion of the instructor. Graduate-level requirements include more challenging exams; 50% greater contribution to their respective group projects; 9 instead of 6 assignment; additional readings from the primary literature.

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LING 538 – Computational Linguistics

Fundamentals of formal language theory; syntactic and semantic processing; the place of world knowledge in natural language processing. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of assignments and a higher level of performance.

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