Jennifer Behney
Biography
Jennifer Behney is Associate Professor in the TESL program. Her research interests lie in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and second language teacher training. In SLA, she researches second language processing and has conducted research on grammatical gender processing and eye-tracking. In language teacher education, she researches teacher candidate performance and perceptions on the World Language edTPA and corrective feedback in the classroom.
She is co-author of an introductory SLA textbook. She was co-author of Interaction, a title in the Cambridge series Elements of Second Language Acquisition, and co-editor of a volume on salience in SLA. Her work has appeared in Language Learning, Foreign Language Annals, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and various book chapters.
She is active in the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and the Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA), where she has served on the Teacher Education and Licensure Committee. She is a recipient of the Ed Allen Award for Outstanding College World Language Instructor.
Education
Publications
- Gass, S., Behney, J., & Plonsky, L. (2025). Second language acquisition: An introductory course (6th edition). New York: Routledge
- Mifka-Profovic, N., Behney, J., Gass, S., Macis, M., Chiuchiù, G., & Bovolenta, G. (2023). Effects of form-focused practice and feedback: A multisite replication study of Yang and Lyster (2010). Language Learning, 73 (4), 1164-1210.
- Behney, J., & Gass, S. (2021). Interaction. Cambridge Series Elements of Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Behney, J., & Marsden, E. (2021). Introduction to SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of SLA and Corpora. New York: Routledge.
- Gass, S., Behney, J., & Plonsky, L. (2020). Second language acquisition: An introductory course (5th edition). New York: Routledge.
- Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.). (2018). Salience in second language acquisition. New York: Routledge.
- Behney, J., Spinner, P., Gass, S., & Valmori, L. (2018). The L2 acquisition of Italian tense: The role of salience. In S. Gass, P. Spinner, & J. Behney (Eds.), Salience in second language acquisition. New York: Routledge.
- Sarkissian, J., & Behney, J. (2018). Salience of noun-adjective agreement in L2 Latin. In S. Gass, P. Spinner, & J. Behney (Eds.), Salience in second language acquisition. New York: Routledge.
- Behney, J. (2018). Performance on the instructing and assessing tasks of the World Language edTPA and avenues for further research. In P. Swanson & S. Hildebrandt (Eds.), Researching edTPA problems and promises: Perspectives from English as an Additional
- Behney, J. (2016). Perceived influence of Cooperating Teachers on edTPA results. Foreign Language Annals, 49 (2), 271-286.
- Spinner, P., Gass, S., & Behney, J. (2013). Ecological validity in eye-tracking: An empirical study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 389 – 415.
- Gass, S., with Behney, J., & Plonsky, L. (2013). Second language acquisition: An introductory course (4th edition). New York: Routledge.
- Behney, J., & Gass, S. (2013). Interaction and the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy: A study using syntactic priming. In J. Schwieter, Innovative research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism. John Benjamins.
- Gass, S., Behney, J., & Uzum, B. (2013). Inhibitory control, working memory, and L2 interaction gains. In K. Droździał-Szelest & M. Pawlak, Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives on second language learning and teaching: Studies in honor of Wal
- Spinner, P., Gass, S., & Behney, J. (2013). Coming eye-to-eye with noticing. In J. M. Bergsleithner, S. N. Frota, & J. K. Yoshioka, (Eds.), Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor of Richard Schmidt (pp. 235–254). Honolulu: University o
Affiliations
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
- Ohio Foreign Language Association