Co-authored paper presented at the Conference on European Second Language Acquisition (EuroSLA), Tromsø, Norway.

This study investigated how task complexity, manipulated through the presence or absence of content support, influenced L2 writers’ pausing and revision behaviors as well as their perceptions of task difficulty and engagement in writing processes. While keystroke logging data revealed no significant differences in pausing or revision behavior between simple and complex tasks, participants in the complex condition reported spending more time planning and structuring their writing and revising language features afterward. The study offers new empirical insights into task complexity effects on writing and highlights methodological considerations for aligning process data with writers’ self-reported experiences.

Co-authored paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

This study used an acceptability judgment task (AJT) to examine how Spanish-English bilinguals with different acquisitional backgrounds judge inalienable possession constructions. All groups were most consistent in accepting the canonical (clitic + definite determiner) form, while also showing some acceptance and within-group variability for innovative forms; importantly, rating consistency did not differ by bilingual type, suggesting AJT data is equally reliable across groups. Although some bilingual background factors moderately correlated with acceptance of certain forms, no clear pattern explained the broader variability, highlighting both the complexity of bilingual grammar and the value of AJTs in capturing it.