Recent presentation @ LSA Presidential Research Forum: "Rethinking the 'Native' Speaker: Essentialism and Linguistic Theory"
Hello! My name is Kelly Kendro, and I am a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Northern Arizona University, advised by Scott Jarvis.
My primary research interests lie in multilingualism and psycholinguistics, specifically executive functioning and cross-linguistic influence in understudied multilingual populations during the processes of language acquisition and attrition. I am also interested in internet-mediated language interactions and sociolinguistic variation, broadly defined.
Upcoming presentations:
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Flagstaff, AZ
September 25-28, 2025
Recent presentations:
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Presidential Research Forum
Virtual
July 1, 2025
2025 International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB)
San Sebastián, SP
June 9-13, 2025
2025 Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Denver, CO
March 22-25, 2025
2025 Five Minute Linguist lightning talk
(honorable mention; also given at ROLE 2025)