Debra Hardison
- (she/her)
- Associate Professor
- Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Biography
My research program has involved multimodal integration in spoken language processing and production, perception and production training for second-language learners including applications of technology, co-speech gesture, and the relationship between language learners’ socio-affective profile and the development of their oral proficiency. By design, this program represents a broad scope of issues, research approaches, and target languages in the field of speech communication.
Works
Hardison, D. M. (2025). The multimodal context of phonological learning. University of Toronto Press.
Algana, M., & Hardison, D. M. (2024). Variable effects of speakers’ visual cues and accent on L2 listening comprehension: A mixed-methods approach. Language Teaching Research. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688241246106.
Hardison, D. M., & Okuno, T. (2023). L2 Japanese vowel production: A closer look at transfer effects from perception training with waveforms. In S. McCrocklin (Ed.), Technological resources for second language pronunciation learning and teaching: Research-based approaches (pp. 217-238). Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
Gagnon, S. G., & Hardison, D. M. (2022). Hidden in plain sight: An exploration of learner productions of phonological processes in Korean and their impact on comprehensibility to the native and non-native ear. The Korean Language in America, 26(1-2), 22-46. (Official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Korean). https://doi.org/10.5325/korelangamer.26.1-2.0022.
Medina González, M., & Hardison, D. M. (2022). Assistive design for English phonetic tools (ADEPT) in language learning. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1), 1-23. https://www.lltjournal.org/; https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73493. This study won the Dorothy Chun Award for Best Journal Article in Language Learning & Technology in 2022. Click here for the story.
Hardison, D. M., & Okuno, T. (2022). Changes in second-language learners’ oral skills and socio-affective profile following short-term study abroad to Japan. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 7(2), 204-239. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.21023.har.
Hardison, D. M. (2021). Multimodal input in second-language speech processing. Language Teaching, 54(2), 206-220. Published online November 17, 2020 by Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444820000592.
Hardison, D. M., & Pennington, M. C. (2021). Multimodal second-language communication: Research findings and pedagogical implications. RELC Journal, 52(1), 62-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688220966635.
Hardison, D. M. (2019). Technology-based communication success for second-language learners. In M. A. Peters & R. Heraud (Eds.), Encyclopedia of educational innovation. Singapore: Springer.
Hardison, D. M. (2018). Visualizing the acoustic and gestural beats of emphasis in multimodal discourse: Theoretical and pedagogical implications. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 4, 231-258.
O’Brien, M. G., Derwing, T. M., Cucchiarini, C., Hardison, D. M., Mixdorff, H., Thomson, R. I., Strik, H., Levis, J. M., Munro, M. J., Foote, J. A., & Muller Levis, G. (2018). Directions for the future of technology in pronunciation research and teaching. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 4, 182-206.
Hardison, D. M. (2018). Computer-assisted pronunciation training. In O. Kang, R. I. Thomson, & J. M. Murphy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of contemporary English pronunciation (pp. 478-494). New York: Routledge.
Hardison, D. M. (2018). Effects of contextual and visual cues on spoken language processing: Enhancing L2 perceptual salience through focused training. In S. M. Gass, P. Spinner, & J. Behney (Eds.), Salience in second language acquisition (pp. 201-220). New York: Routledge.
Okuno, T., & Hardison, D. M. (2016). Perception-production link in L2 Japanese vowel duration; Training with technology. Language Learning & Technology, 20, 61-80.
Hardison, D. M. (2014). Changes in second-language learners’ oral skills and socio-affective profile following study abroad: A mixed-methods approach. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 70, 415-444.
Hardison, D. M. (2014). Phonological literacy in L2 learning and teacher training. In J. Levis & A. Moyer (Eds.), Social dynamics in second language accent (pp. 195-218). Boston/Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
Hardison, D. M. (2012). Second-language speech perception: A cross-disciplinary perspective on challenges and accomplishments. In S. Gass & A. Mackey (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 349-363). New York: Routledge.
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