Franklin & Marshall College

B.A., Universidad de Deusto, 2000; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003.

Goretti Prieto Botana is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation is on the role of explicit information and task-essentialness in Processing Instruction. Her scholarly interests center on instructed second language acquisition, particularly, grammar-related learnability problems and explicit approaches to instruction. She is also interested in input processing and the elaboration of meaningful practice in classroom environments.