Baralt, Melissa

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Baralt, Melissa Graduate Faculty

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Professor, Modern Languages , Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

mbaralt@fiu.edu

2021 Research Opportunity Seed Fund Awardees - Community-Engaged Research for the Creation of Bilingual Literacy Supports for Haitian Parents and Infants Using a Book and Video in Pediatric Visits. With Nic Andre and Shewonda Leger
Dr. Melissa Baralt FIU website
Háblame Bebé is a free app that helps you promote bilingualism, brain development, and cultural pride. Learn more here!
NEH-funded open access Spanish language curriculum centering Blackness in Latin America

research interests

Psycholinguistics
Bilingualism and second language acquisition
Bilingual language development in children
Sociocultural and environmental factors that affect parent-child interaction
Bilingual education; classroom vs. online language learning
Methodologies of language teaching
Language teacher education and cognition
Spanish linguistics
Task-Based Language Teaching

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2024
  
  How family needs informed an early literacy family reading program in multilingual and multicultural Miami-Dade County. JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY. 24:723-755.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/14687984221093242 Web of Science: 000792994800001
- 2023
  
  Leveraging transdisciplinary expertise to develop a task-based Spanish curriculum to combat anti-blackness in the United States
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/task.00021.cos
- 2023
  
  A Preliminary Study of Executive Functioning in Preterm-Born Children. ADVANCES IN NEONATAL CARE. 23:E121-E128.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000001106 Web of Science: 001111240800016
- 2022
  
  A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Effectiveness of the Háblame Bebé Mobile Application With Spanish-Speaking Mothers Experiencing Economic Hardship.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00094
- 2022
  
  Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers' language input in North American bilingual Latinx families. INFANCY. 27:301-323.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/infa.12450 Web of Science: 000744320100001
- 2022
  
  Virtual Tabadul: Creating Language-Learning Community Through Virtual Reality
  Full Text via DOI: 10.32674/jis.v12iS3.4638 Web of Science: 000869767700011
- 2021
  
  Innovating Maternal and Child Health: Incentive Prizes to Improve Early Childhood Development. MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL. 25:1508-1515.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10995-021-03219-y Web of Science: 000685384000002
- 2020
  
  Hablame Bebe: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children's early language environments and bilingualism. CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING & THERAPY. 36.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0265659020903779 Web of Science: 000512847400001
- 2020
  
  Infant-directed language following a brief behavioral parenting intervention: The importance of language quality. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 58.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101419 Web of Science: 000525804200023
- 2017
  
  Task-based language teaching online: A guide for teachers. LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY. 21:28-43.
  Web of Science: 000417464200003
- 2016
  
  Teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A classroom study on the timing of grammar around a task
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/caslar-2016-0002
- 2015
  
  Does type of modified output correspond to learner noticing of feedback? A closer look in face-to-face and computer-mediated task-based interaction. APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. 36:1393-1420.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0142716414000320 Web of Science: 000368233000004
- 2014
  
  Does the medium really matter in L2 development? The validity of CALL research designs. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING. 27:294-310.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2013.839569 Web of Science: 000341335900003
- 2014
  
  EXPLORING LEARNER PERCEPTION AND USE OF TASK-BASED INTERACTIONAL FEEDBACK IN FTF AND CMC MODES. STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. 36:1-37.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0272263113000363 Web of Science: 000332957600001
- 2013
  
  THE IMPACT OF COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY ON FEEDBACK EFFICACY DURING ONLINE VERSUS FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIVE TASKS. STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. 35:689-725.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0272263113000429 Web of Science: 000326443100004
- 2011
  
  Action research: Using wordles to teach foreign language writing
- 2011
  
  USING WORDLES TO TEACH FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING. LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY. 15:12-22.
  Web of Science: 000297810300003
- 2011
  
  Comparing learners' state anxiety during task-based interaction in computer-mediated and face-to-face communication. LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH. 15:201-229.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0265532210388717 Web of Science: 000288337000005
- Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. 55.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100931 Web of Science: 000572356800009
- Bilingualism as a Potential Strategy to Improve Executive Function in Preterm Infants: A Review. JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE. 29:126-136.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2014.08.015 Web of Science: 000352484900004
Book
- 2015
  
  A psycholinguistic approach to technology and language learning
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9781614513674
- 2015
  
  Preface
- 2014
  
  Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning
- 2014
  
  Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning. Ed. Baralt, Melissa.
  Web of Science: 000377775900009
Book Chapter
- 2022
  
  Psycholinguistics for the Language Classroom. 387-399.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781003018872-36
- 2022
  
  El enfoque por tareas en el aprendizaje del Español como lengua de herencia. 81-96.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780429443657-9
- 2018
  
  Chapter 10. Becoming a task-based teacher educator. 266-192.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/tblt.12.11bar
- 2018
  
  Becoming a task-based teacher educator A case study. 265-285.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/tblt.12.11bar Web of Science: 000611818400012
- 2018
  
  Becoming a task-based teacher educator: A case study. 265-285.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/tblt.12.11bar
- 2016
  
  8. Engagement with the language. 209-239.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/lllt.45.09bar
- 2016
  
  Chapter 8 Engagement with the language How examining learners' affective and social engagement explains successful learner-generated attention to form. 209-239.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/lllt.45.09bar
- 2015
  
  Levels of awareness in relation to type of recast and type of linguistic item in synchronous computer-mediated communication: A concurrent investigation. 151-169.
- 2015
  
  Uptake, task complexity, and L2 development in SLA: An online perspective. 199-218.
- 2015
  
  Where do we go from here?. 259-264.
- 2015
  
  10. Uptake, task complexity, and L2 development in SLA: An online perspective. 199-218.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9781614513674-013
- 2015
  
  13. Where do we go from here?. 259-264.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9781614513674-016
- 2015
  
  8. Levels of awareness in relation to type of recast and type of linguistic item in synchronous computer-mediated communication: A concurrent investigation. 151-170.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9781614513674-011
- 2015
  
  Working Memory Capacity, Cognitive Complexity and L2 Recasts in Online Language Teaching. 248-269.
  Web of Science: 000388588600016
- 2014
  
  An Introduction to Theory and Research in Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning. 1-34.
  Web of Science: 000377775900001
- 2014
  
  Task Complexity and Task Sequencing in Traditional Versus Online Language Classes. 95-122.
  Web of Science: 000377775900004
- 2014
  
  Teachers' Application of the Cognition Hypothesis when Lesson Planning: A Case Study. 179-206.
  Web of Science: 000377775900007
- 2012
  
  Coding Qualitative Data. 222-244.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/9781444347340.ch12
Book Review
- 2023
  
  Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching. Ed. 77.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad043 Web of Science: 001185144600001
- 2019
  
  Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching. Ed. 73.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccz005 Web of Science: 000469510800019
Conference
- 2016
  
  Bilingualism and Executive Inhibitory Control in 4-and 5-Year-Old Preterm Born Children: A Pilot Study. ADVANCES IN NEONATAL CARE. E9-E9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000283 Web of Science: 000377147100013
Review
- 2020
  
  A systematic review of language-focused interventions for young children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY. 157-178.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2019.06.001 Web of Science: 000504513600013

editor of

Book
- Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning 2014

principal investigator on

An HSI and HBCU collaboration to create open access curricula celebrating Blackness in Latin America awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2023 - 2026
Video- and App-based naturalistic Language Instruction (VALI) for Spanish-speaking caregivers to support bilingual language development in children with language delays awarded by Institute of Education Sciences 2020 - 2024
Helping nurses coach Spanish-speaking at-risk mothers in Language Nutrition awarded by Baptist Health South Florida 2020 - 2023
FIU Virtual Tabadul: Creating Language-Learning Community Through Virtual Reality awarded by U.S. Department of State 2021 - 2023
Hablame Bebe: Improving health information access for low-income Hispanic children's early language environments 2019 - 2023
Háblame Bebé: Improving health information access for low-income Hispanic children's early language environments awarded by National Library of Medicine 2019 - 2023
Improving Spanish-language teacher retention and success among black Spanish-language learners: An HSI-HBCU collaboration. awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2019 - 2022
Helping nurses coach Spanish-speaking caregivers in Language Nutrition awarded by Health Resources & Services Administrati 2019 - 2021
Háblame bebé: Helping Hispanic families reduce the word gap and promote bilingualism awarded by Health Resources & Services Administrati 2017 - 2021
Improving Spanish-Language Teacher Retention and Success 2019 - 2020
The benefits of bilingualism for children born premature awarded by Language Learning 2014 - 2018
The benefits of bilingualism for children born premature awarded by Baptist Health South Florida 2016
BILINGUALISM AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN PRETERM HISPANIC INFANTS awarded by Baptist Health South Florida 2014 - 2015

investigator on

Preventive Intervention for Behavior Problems in Infants from High-Risk Families awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2020 - 2025

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