Department of Applied Linguistics & TESL, UCLA
3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
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Current Position
Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL (1985-present)
Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL (1985-present)
Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Applied Linguistics (1985-present)
Previous Positions
Professor, Department of English, Subsection of TESL (1975-85)
Education
1965 B. A., Fordham University, Russian Studies
1966 M. A., Fordham University, Russian Linguistics and Literature
1975 Ed. D., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development
Professional Activities/Honors
1993-1999 Member, Evaluation Committee, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
1997 Nominating Committee, American Association for Applied Linguistics
1985-1999 Editorial Board, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
1997-1999 Editorial Board, Applied Linguistics
1992-1995 Editorial Board, Research in Second Language Acquisition
Related Publications (selected)
Cancino, H., Rosansky, E. J., & Schumann, J. H. (1975). "The Acquisition of the English Auxiliary by Native Spanish Speakers," TESOL Quarterly 9: 421-430.
Schumann, J. H. (1990). "The Role of the Amygdala as a Mediator of Affect and Cognition in Second Language Acquisition," In J.E. Alatis, Ed., Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 1990, 169-176.
Schumann, J. H. (1992). “Neurobiology of Language,” Special Issue of Issues in Applied Linguistics. 3.
Schumann, J. H. (1994). “Where is Cognition? Emotion in Second Language Acquisition,” Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 16: 231-242.
Pulvermuller, F., & Schumann, J. H. (1994). “Neurobiological Mechanisms of Language Acquisition.” Language Learning, 44: 681-734.
Significant Publications (selected)
Jacobs, B., & Schumann, J. H. (1992). "Language Acquisition and the Neurosciences: Toward a More Integrative Perspective," Applied Linguistics 13: 282-301.
Schumann, J. H. (1993). "The Brain Looks at Diversity," Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 14: 1-8.
Pulvermuller, F., & Schumann, J. H. (1995). “On the Interpretation of Earlier Recovery of the Second Language After the Injection of Sodium Amytal in the Left Middle Cerebral Artery or Are There Relevant Facts Without Interpretation?: A Response to Paradis,” Language Learning, 45: 729-735.
Schumann, J. H. (1997). The Neurobiology of Affect in Language. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, (341 pages). Also published as a special issue of Language Learning, 48, (1997).
Schumann, J. H. (1999). “A neurobiological perspective on affect and methodology in second language learning,” In J. Arnold, Ed., Affect in Language Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press. 28-42.