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Robert BlakeProfessor of Spanish, Director of UC
Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching Email: rjblake@ucdavis.edu |
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.


