Biography
Kiel Christianson has taught at the university level in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and conducted the first "field-psycholinguistics" study on syntactic processing in any indigenous North American language (Odawa). He is currently Director of the Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab at the Beckman Institute, and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology. His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, and Procter & Gamble.
Research Interests
psycholinguistics
bilingualism & SLA
reading
Research Description
Dr. Christianson studies syntactic parsing, sentence comprehension in reading and listening, reading, language production, bilingualism, and morphological processing.
Education
Linguistics, PhD, Michigan State University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Educational Psychology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education (SLATE) Program, Center for Translation Studies
Chair, Educational Psychology
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Honors & Awards
two-time Fulbright recipient
NSF CAREER Award (2009-2014)
University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Research (2019)
Illinois College of Educaiton Distinguished Scholar (2019)
Illinois Colleg eof Educaiton David Zola Career Teaching Excellence Award (2020)
Recent Publications
Azevedo, R. F. L., Roy, B., Christianson, K., Zhong, Y., & Morrow, D. G. (2022). Affective Distancing Associated with Second Language Use Influences Response to Health Information. Languages, 7(2), [120]. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020120
Christianson, K., Dempsey, J., Tsiola, A., & Goldshtein, M. (2022). What if they're just not that into you (or your experiment)? On motivation and psycholinguistics. In K. D. Federmeier (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory (pp. 51-88). (Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory; Vol. 76). Academic Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2022.03.002
Dempsey, J., Christianson, K., & Tanner, D. (2022). Misretrieval but not misrepresentation: A feature misbinding account of post-interpretive effects in number attraction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(9), 1727-1745. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211061578
Dempsey, J., & Christianson, K. (2022). Referencing context in sentence processing: A failure to replicate the strong interactive mental models hypothesis. Journal of Memory and Language, 125, [104335]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2022.104335
Brehm, L., Hussey, E., & Christianson, K. (2020). The role of word frequency and morpho-orthography in agreement processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1631456
