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Room 618, Sproul Hall
UC Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-0835 Undergrad phone
(530) 752-5799 Grad phone
(530) 752-8630 fax

 
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Robert Blake

Professor of Spanish, Director of UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Email: rjblake@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-7153 (SLA)
Office: 222 Voorhies (SLA)
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Personal Web Site (Vitae)

Research Areas

Spanish linguistics (history and syntax), second language acquisition, technology and language learning, foreign language policy

Current Projects

He is an Executive Board member of the Second Language Acquisition Institute (SLAI) and is also active in the field of computer-assisted language instruction and distance learning, especially the RCT project.

Recent Publications

He has published in Spanish Linguistics on topics dealing with historical phonology, historical syntax, modern syntax, and second-language learning. He is co-author of Al Corriente (3rd ed.), a second-year Spanish textbook based on authentic reading materials, and chief academic adviser for Nuevos Destinos CD-ROM, a joint project of !McGraw-Hill, Annenberg PCB projects, and WGBH Boston.

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