Research Interests
Broad: Child language development, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual education
Narrow: Bilingual language acquisition, heritage language development and maintenance, grammar acquisition, bilingual and dual language education, culturally sustaining pedagogy, second language pedagogy, dual language assessments, multilingual learners, newcomer education, bilingual special education
Publications
Goldin, M., Jimenez, A., Thane, P., López, J., Sánchez, L., Austin, J., Hur, E. (submitted). “We don’t have an actual proficiency assessment” : Teachers’ perceptions of the lack of partner language assessments in dual language education.
Thane, P., Rodriguez, S., Goldin, M., Austin, J. (2024). The acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive by child heritage and L2 learners: Evidence from a dual language program. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.
Austin, J., Thane, P., Rodriguez, S., Goldin, M. (2024). The comprehension of clitic gender in child heritage and second language Spanish: Evidence from a dual language program. Frontiers in Language Science 3.
López-Otero, J, Hur, E., Goldin, M. (2023). Syntactic optionality in Heritage Spanish: How patterns of exposure and use affect clitic climbing. International Journal of Bilingualism 28(3), 531-554.
Sánchez, L., Goldin, M., Hur, E., Jimenez, A., López-Otero, J., Thane, P., Austin, J., & Markovits, J. (2023). Dominance, language experience, and increased interaction effects on the development of pragmatic knowledge in heritage bilingual children: Acceptance of null and overt subjects in Spanish and English. Heritage Language Journal, 20(1),1-39.
Goldin, M., López-Otero, J., Hur, E. (2023). How frequent are these verbs? An exploration of lexical frequency in bilingual children’s acquisition of subject-verb agreement. In Romance grammars: context and contact, eds. Alice Corr & Norma Schifano. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 9(2)/7, 1-25
Thane, P., Goldin, M., Jimenez, A., Hur, E., López, J., Austin, J. (2022). Where we are and where we ought to be: The need for research-based assessments for dual language immersion learners. NABE Journal of Research and Practice.
Goldin, M. (2022). Comprehension-production asymmetry in bilingual children’s acquisition of subject-verb agreement. Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Ying Gong and Felix Kpogo, 230-241.Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Goldin, M. (2021). Language activation in dual language schools: the development of subject-verb agreement in the English and Spanish of heritage speaker children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-22.
Goldin, M., Syrett, K., Sánchez, L. (2021). Perspective-taking with deictic motion verbs in Spanish: What we learn about semantics and the lexicon from heritage child speakers and adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
Goldin, M. (2020). Acquisition of null subjects in heritage and L2 children. In Colomina-Almiñana, J. & S. Sessarego (Eds.). Patterns in Spanish: Structure, Context and Development. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Goldin, M. (2020). An exploratory study of the effect of Spanish immersion education on the acquisition of null subjects in child heritage speakers. Languages, 5, 18, 1-24.
Marull, C. & Goldin, M. (2018). The relationship between sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations and morphosyntactic anticipation in L2 comprehension. Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Goldin, M. (2005). Dance anthropology: Spain in the flamenco trilogy of Carlos Saura and Antonio Gades. Hispanic Culture Review, 11, 83-100.
Works in Progress
Goldin, M. (in preparation). Profiles of Latino families who choose dual language education.
Goldin, M., López-Otero, J., Hur, E. (in preparation). The role of dual language education in heritage speaker social networks.
López-Otero, J. and Goldin, M. (in preparation). The role of age of acquisition in L2 Spanish imperatives: Insights from children and adults.
Goldin, M. (in preparation). How old is too old? The effect of age of acquisition on verb morphology in young child L2 learners.
Goldin, M., Kim, J., López-Otero, J., Hur, E. (in preparation). Language Memory: The effect of dual language immersion on the development of Spanish phonology in children
Funding
External Funding
2020 | ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship Finalist Research Award
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
($500) |
2019 | P.E.O. Scholar Award
International Chapter of the P.E.O. |
($15,000) |
LSRL Graduate Student Award
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages |
($90) | |
2018 | BUCLD Diversity Enhancement Award
Boston University Conference on Language Development |
($600) |
2017 | Graduate Merit Award
Executive Women of New Jersey (EWNJ) |
($5000) |
BUCLD Paula Menyuk Travel Award
Boston University Conference on Language Development |
($300) | |
2016-2018 | Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship
U.S. Department of Education |
($85,000) |
2002 | Senior Scholarship
The National Spanish Exam |
($1000) |
Internal Funding
2023 | Presidential Research Development Grant – PI
Touro University |
($10,000) |
2022 | Summer Curriculum Grant
Graduate School of Education, Touro University |
($1,500) |
2020 | Diversity Innovation Grant – Co-PI
Division of Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement, Rutgers University |
($2,500) |
2020 | Research Materials Grant
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University |
($670) |
2019-2020 | Graduate School of Education Fellowship
Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University |
($33,000) |
2019 | Latino Studies Research Initiative Fellowship
Latino Studies Research Initiative, Rutgers University |
($750)
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Mellon Summer Study Grant
School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University |
($4000) | |
Research Support Grant
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University |
($500) | |
Conference travel award
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University |
($1280) | |
2018 | Conference travel award
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University |
($1195) |
Latino Studies Research Initiative Fellowship – Co-PI
Latino Studies Research Initiative, Rutgers University |
($1200) | |
2017 | Research Materials Grant
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University |
($215) |
2003 | Kevin Campbell Scholarship
George Mason University |
($500) |