Marina Sartor

I am a graduate student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State University. I graduated in Intercultural and Interlinguistic Mediation from Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in Como, Italy. During my undergraduate studies, I taught Italian language and culture at a school for Chinese immigrants, an experience that sparked my interest in second language acquisition from both a teaching and research perspective. At Penn State, my research focuses on Hispanic Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Psycholinguistics with a focus on grammatical gender and learning mechanism. Current research includes eye-tracking experiments on prediction in Italian and the learning of Spanish as second language. For my dissertation, I plan to further expand my research using event-related potentials (ERP) to explore how English speakers acquire Spanish as a second language.