Dpto. de Filología Inglesa
Facultad de Letras
Universidad del País Vasco
Paseo de la Universidad 5
01006 Vitoria – Spain
E-mail: maripilar.garciamayo@ehu.es
Phone: +34 945 013036
Fax: +34 945 013201
María del Pilar García Mayo is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a B.A. in Germanic Philology from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Iowa. Her primary research interests focus on the L2 acquisition of English morphosyntax (generative perspective) and the study of conversational interaction and L2 learning (interactionist approach). She has published widely on those issues. Additionally, her research interests include bilingual/multilingual education and the age factor. Besides work on her main research interests, García Mayo is currently engaged in research on language processing in the Psycholinguistics Laboratory of the UPV/EHU. She is also the coordinator of the Research in English Applied Linguistics research group.
ELEBILAB (Psycholinguistics Laboratory)
Recent publications
Books (edited)
& M.P. García Mayo and R. Hawkins (eds.). 2009. Second Language Acquisition of Articles. Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (in press).
& M.P. García Mayo (ed.) 2007. Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Hbk ISBN 1853599271, Pbk ISBN 1853599263. Pp.267
& S. Foster-Cohen, M. P. García Mayo and J. Cenoz (eds.) 2005. EUROSLA Yearbook 5. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN: 90 272 5452 4 (Europe)/ 1 58811 291 8 (USA). Pp. 280.
& M. P. García Mayo and M. L. García Lecumberri (eds.) 2003. Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 1-85359-639-6 (hbk) / 1-85359-638-8 (pbk). Pp. 209.
Special issues (edited)
Alcón Soler, E. and M. P. García Mayo (eds.) 2009. Interaction and language learning in foreign language contexts. International Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (forthcoming)
M. P. García Mayo and E. Alcón Soler. 2002 (Guest editors). International Journal
of Educational Research 37 (3-4). Special issue on ‘The role of interaction in instructed language learning’.
Articles in refereed journals
Alegría de la Colina, A. and M. P. García Mayo. 2009. Oral interaction in task-based EFL learning: The use of the L1 as a cognitive tool. IRAL International Review of Applied Linguistics 47(3) (forthcoming)
Perales Haya, S., M. P. García Mayo and J. M. Liceras. 2009. The acquisition of L3 English negation by bilingual (Spanish/Basque) learners in an institutional setting. International Journal of Bilingualism 13(1): 3-33.
García Mayo, M.P. 2008. The acquisition of four non-generic uses of the by EFL learners. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics 36: 550-565
García Mayo. 2007, M.P. Universal Grammar and the acquisition of English L3 syntax. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Special issue on Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition 4: 25-41.
García Mayo, M.P. 2006. Synthetic compounding in the English interlanguage of Basque/Spanish bilinguals. International Journal of Multilingualism 3(4): 231-257.
García Mayo, M.P., A. Lázaro Ibarrola and J. M. Liceras. 2006. Agreement in the English interlanguage of Basque/Spanish bilinguals: A minimalist farewell to pro. ITL: International Journal of Applied Linguistics 151: 83-98.
García Mayo, M.P., A. Lázaro Ibarrola and J. M. Liceras. 2005. Placeholders in the English interlanguage of bilingual (Basque/Spanish) children. Language Learning 55(3): 445-489.
Chapters in books
García Mayo, M.P. and R. Hawkins. 2009. The interest of article acquisition for theories of SLA. In M.P. García Mayo & R. Hawkins (eds.) Second Language Acquisition of Articles. Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications (pp. 1-10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series).
García Mayo, M.P. 2009a. Article choice by Spanish L2 learners of English: Evidence for full transfer of the definiteness parameter. In M.P.García Mayo and R. Hawkins (eds.) Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications. (pp.13-35). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series).
García Mayo, M.P. 2009b. El uso de tareas y la atención a la forma del lenguaje en el aula AICLE. In V. Pavón & J. Ávila (eds.) Aplicaciones didácticas para la enseñanza integrada de lengua y contenidos (AICLE/CLIL/EMILE) (pp. 55-73). Sevilla: Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía.
Villareal Olaizola, I. and M.P. García Mayo. 2009. Tense and agreement morphology in the interlanguage of Basque/Spanish bilinguals: Content-based learning vs. the learning of English as a school subject. In Y. Ruiz Zarobe and R. Jiménez Catalán (eds.) Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Evidence from Research in Europe (pp. 157-175). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Alcón Soler, E. and M. P. García Mayo. 2008. Focus on form in a meaning-focused foreign language classroom: An exploratory study. In R. Monroy and A. Sánchez (eds.) 25 años de Lingüística Aplicada en España: Hitos y retos/ 25 years of Applied Linguistics in Spain: Milestones and Challenges. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia.
García Mayo, M.P. 2008. A focus on form approach in language pedagogy: Findings from research in an EFL context. In M. Teresa Gilabert Maceda and L. Alba Juez (eds.) Estudios de Filología Inglesa. Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo (pp. 145-161). Colección Varia. Madrid: UNED.
Alcón Soler, E. and M. P. García Mayo. 2008. Focus on form and learning outcomes in the foreign language classroom. In J. Philp, R. Oliver and A. Mackey (eds.) Child’s play? Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner (pp. 173-192). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Dalley Benson, E. and M.P. García Mayo. 2008. Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL. M. A. Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and E. M. González Álvarez (eds.) Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison (pp. 299-326). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gutierrez Mangado, J. and M.P. García Mayo. 2008. Non-adult long-distance wh-questions in L2 English. In. C. Pérez Vidal, M. Juan Garau and A. Bel i Gaya (eds.) A Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain (264-286). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
García Mayo, M.P. 2007a. Introduction. In M. P. García Mayo (ed.) Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning (pp. 1-6). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
García Mayo, M.P. 2007b. The acquisition of four nongeneric uses of the by EFL learners. In R. Mairal et al. (ed.) Aprendizaje de lenguas, uso del lenguaje y modelación cognitiva: Perspectivas aplicadas entre disciplinas (pp. 281-287). Madrid: UNED
Alegría de la Colina, A. and M. P. García Mayo. 2007. Attention to form across collaborative tasks by low proficiency learners in an EFL setting. In M. P. García Mayo (ed.) Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning. (pp. 91-116). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Lázaro Ibarrola, A. and M. P. García Mayo. 2006. Is forma euskara-gaztelera haur elebidunen ingelesezko tarteko hizkuntzan (La forma is en la interlengua inglesa de niños bilingües euskera-castellano). In J. Cenoz and D. Lasagabaster (eds.) Hizkuntzak ikasten eta erabiltzen (pp. 221-242). Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco.
García Mayo, M.P. 2005. Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication: Do they provide evidence for attention to form? In A. Housen and M. Pierrard (eds.) Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Studies on Language Acquisition Series (pp. 383-405). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.