Erika Mitchell
Education
Teaching Positions
Research Interests
- Information Technology: E-Learning, web design
- Linguistics: second language acquisition, syntax, morphology, language learning using computers
- Anthropology: Residential architecture
Selected Projects and Publications
- Mitchell, E. & Frisbie, S. (2001) “Student Attitudes towards Self-Paced Multimedia Instruction," Poster presented at Syllabus fall2001 Conference, November 30, 2001 (Boston, MA).
- Radecki, W. & Mitchell, E. (2001) “'Multitasking' and Classroom Management in the Ubiquitous Computing Environment," Paper presented at Syllabus fall2001 Conference, December 1, 2001 (Boston, MA).
- Mitchell, E. & Frisbie, S. (2001) "Creating Multimedia Instructional Materials with Microsoft PowerPoint," Workshop presented at the Process of Language Learning, Military Languages Institute, November 7, 2001 (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. & Frisbie, S. (2001) “An Experiment in Student-Centered Learning,” Syllabus Magazine, vol. 15(2), pp. 30-32.
- Mitchell, E. (2001) “Finnish,” Facts about the World's Major Languages. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company.
- Mitchell, E. (2001) “Bouncing verbs: How to understand word order in foreign languages,” Lecture presented at Zayed University Science Club, 17 April, 2001 (Dubai, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. & Frisbie, S. (2001) “Focus on Form with Microsoft PowerPoint,” Paper presented at TESOL Arabia, March 16, 2001 (Dubai, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. (2000) “Can monkeys talk?”, Lecture presented at Zayed University Science Club, 2 October, 2001 (Dubai, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. (2000) “Where people live-How houses reflect the people who live in them,” Lecture presented at Zayed University Science Club, 1 May, 2001 (Dubai, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. Frisbie, S., & Hobbs, A. (2000) “Does oral repetition improve grammatical accuracy?” Paper presented at TESOL Arabia, April 12-14, 2000 (Al Ain, UAE).
- Mitchell, E. (1999) “AUX, INFL and AgrP: Past, Present, and Future,” 34. Linguistisches Kolloquium, September 10, 1999 (Germersheim, Germany). Appears in Proceedings of the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang-Verlag.
- Perelman, L, Barrett, E, & Paradis, J. (1997) Mayfield Guide to Scientific and Technical Writing, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. (ESL consultant, contributing writer and editorial associate)
- Mitchell, E. (1994) "ESL Writers: Writing Across the Curriculum," Invited workshop, Stonehill College, December 18, 1994 (North Easton, MA).
- Mitchell, E. (1994) "When AgrO is Fused to AgrS: What Morphology Can Tell Us About the Functional Categories," The Morphology-Syntax Connection, January 4, 1994 (Cambridge, MA). Appears in Appears in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 22.
- Mitchell, (1993) Morphological Evidence for Syntactic Structure: The Finno-Ugric Languages and English, Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University.
- Mitchell, E. (1993) "The Nature and Location of Agreement Within DP," GLOW 16 (Generative Linguists of the Old World), April 4, 1993 (Lund, Sweden).
- Mitchell, E. (1993) "On the Position of NegP in English and the Status of Not," Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 12.
- Mitchell, E. (1993) "'VP-Fronting', Do-Support and the Internal Structure of IP in English," Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, January 7, 1993 (Los Angeles, CA). Appears in Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 11.
- Mitchell, E. (1992) "Tense and Negation in the Baltic-Finnic Languages," Terra Baltica, June 18, 1992 (Toronto, Canada).
- Mitchell, E. (1992) "Agreement and Negation in the Baltic-Finnic Languages," FLSM III (Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica), May 4, 1992 (Chicago, IL). Appears in Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica.
- Mitchell, E. (1991) "Evidence from Finnish for Pollock's Theory of IP," Linguistic Inquiry 22, pp. 373-378.
- Mitchell, E. (1991) "Case and the Finnish Object," Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 9, Fall 1991, pp. 189-224.