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Hola mellado Branton Baird. Teaching and research are my primary interests. I enjoy researching how people learn anything, but more specifically how people learn their first and second languages. My current research focuses on pragmatic meaning and how acquiring very common expressions speeds up language acquisition. I will be traveling to Europe next summer to test my theories.

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Athens State University
Undergraduate concentration in Spanish, The University of Alabama
Master of Psychology in Continuing Education, The University of West Alabama
Master of Applied Linguistics and Romance Languages (Spanish), The University of Alabama

Provisional Certificate

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Fine Arts/Foreign Language