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Turning Information into Knowledge: A grants program to support course revision to improve student success: A learner-centered course on German fairytales, The University of Arizona.

Ecke, P. (in press). Cross-linguistic influence on word search in tip-of-the-tongue states. TESOL Quarterly.

Ecke, P. (in press). The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon as a window on (bilingual) lexical retrieval. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), The bilingual mental lexicon: Methods and approaches. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Ecke, P. (in press). Die Kosten der Mehrsprachigkeit: Zeit und Fehler bei der Wortfindung. [The costs of multilingualism: Time and errors during word retrieval] Babylonia.

Ecke, P. (in press). DEFA Märchenfilme im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Memorias del Encuentro AMPAL 2007.

Badstübner, T., & Ecke, P. (in press). Students’ expectations, target language use, and perceived learning progress in a summer study abroad program in Germany. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German.

Hall, C. J., Newbrand, D., Ecke, P., Sperr, U., & Marchand, V. (in press). Learners’ implicit assumptions about syntactic frames in new L3 words: The role of cognates, typological proximity, and L2 status. Language Learning.

Ecke, P. (2007). Deutschsprachiges Fernsehen via Internet. Info-AMPAL, 17, 15-18.

Ecke, P. (2006). Probleme mit DVDs aus deutschsprachigen Ländern: Regionalcode und Kopierschutz. Info AMPAL, 14-15, 30-33.

Ecke, P. (2005). Coping with the DVD dilemma: Region codes and copy protection. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 38(1), 89-93.  See Interview about this article.

Ecke, P. (2004). Language attrition and theories of forgetting: A cross-disciplinary review. International Journal of Bilingualism, 8(3), 321-354.

Ecke, P. (2004). Words on the tip of the tongue: A study of lexical retrieval failures in Spanish-English bilinguals. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 23(2), 1-31.

Ecke, P. (2004). Die Schlüsselwort-Mnemonik für den fremdsprachigen Wortschatzerwerb: Zum Stand der Forschung [The keyword mnemonic for foreign language vocabulary learning: The state of research]. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 33, 213-230.

Ecke, P. (2004). DEFA Märchenfilme zur Vermittlung von Deutsch als Fremdsprache [DEFA fairy tale films to teach German as a foreign language]. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 37 (1).

Ecke, P. (2003). Substitutionsfehler und Wörter auf der Zunge: Evidenz für das mentale Lexikon [Substitution errors and words on the tip-of-the-tongue: Evidence for the mental lexicon]. Bulletin Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée (VALS/ASLA), Special Issue: Gehirn und Sprache: Psycho- und Neurolinguistische Ansätze/Brain and Language: Psycholingustic and Neurobiological Issues, 78, 35-48.

Hall, C. J. & Ecke, P. (2003). Parasitism as a default mechanism in L3 vocabulary acquisition. In J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen & U. Jessner (Eds.), The multilingual lexicon (pp. 71-85). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.

Ecke, P. (2002). Variables psicológicas en la declinación de lenguas. [Psychological variables in language attrition]. In Z. Estrada Fernández & R. M. Ortiz Ciscomani (Eds.), Memorias del VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste (pp. 171-185). Hermosillo, Mexico: Editorial Unison.

Ecke, P. (2001). Lexical retrieval in a third language: Evidence from errors and tip-of-the-tongue states. In J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen, & U. Jessner (Eds.), Cross-linguistic aspects of L3 acquisition (pp. 90-114). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Campaña Rubio, E. B., & Ecke, P. (2001). Un estudio experimental sobre la adquisición y recuperación (parcial) de palabras en una lengua extranjera. [An experimental study about the acquisition and (partial) recall of words in a foreign language]. In G. López Cruz & M. Morúa Leyva (Eds.),  Memorias del V Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste (pp. 63-84). Hermosillo, Mexico: Editorial Unison.

Ecke, P. (2001). Simulationen im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache [Simulations in the teaching of German as a foreign language]. Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 38 (3), 159-165.

Ecke, P. (2000). Tip-of-the-tongue states with foreign language words: Resolution types and word search strategies. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 7, 55-69.

Ecke, P. (2000). Im Restaurant: Simulationen im Anfängerunterricht. [In the restaurant: Simulations in beginners' classes]. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 33(1), 45-49.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (2000). Lexikalische Fehler in Deutsch als Drittsprache: Translexika-lischer Einfluss auf drei Ebenen der mentalen Repräsentation. [Lexical errors in German as a third language: Cross-lexical influence on three levels of mental representation]. Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 37(1), 30-36.

Ecke, P. (1999). Trial for Pinchetot: A simulation / game on justice and human rights. Simulation & Gaming, 30(2), 232-238.

Ecke, P. (1999). Resumen práctico de mnemotécnicas para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras [A practical summary of mnemonic techniques for foreign language teaching]. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, 29, 55-70.

Ecke, P. (1999). "Problems with pets: A set of simulation games." Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht-Englisch, 4, 42-44.

Ecke, P., & Garrett, M. F. (1998). Lexical retrieval stages of momentarily inaccessible foreign language words. Ilha do Desterro, Special Issue: Cognitive Perspectives on the Acquisition / Learning of Second / Foreign Languages, 35, 157-183. (ISSN: 01014846)

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (1998). Tres niveles de la representación mental: Evidencia de errores léxicos en estudiantes de lenguas extranjeras. [Three levels of mental representation: Evidence from lexical errors in foreign language learners]. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, 28, 15-26.

Ecke, P. (1997). Tip of the tongue states in first and foreign languages: Similarities and differences of lexical retrieval failures. In Proceedings of the EUROSLA 7 Conference (pp. 505-514), Barcelona, Spain.

Ecke, P. (1996). Lexical retrieval problems in bilinguals. In Z. E. Fernández, M. F. Esteva & G. L. Cruz (Eds.), Memorias del Tercer Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo III: Interdisciplinas Lingüísticas (pp. 285-301). Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison.

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

Ecke, P. (1999). "Money-money-money!" Scripts for classroom simulations. MEXTESOL Journal, 22(4), 41-44. http://www.mextesol.org/journ.htm

Ecke, P. (1998). "Robbery and auction": Two sequenced simulation-games. Modern English Teacher, 7(4), 34-35.

Ecke, P. (in press). Gessica de Angelis: Third or additional language acquisition. Multilingual Matters, Cleveland, 2007. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.

Ecke, P. (2005). Stefan Aust and Frank Schirrmacher (Eds.): Hundert Jahre Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg: Frankfurter Allgemeine and Spiegel TV, 2005. Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German, 38 (2), 203-204.

Ecke, P. (2005). Wolfgang Börner and Klaus Vogel: Grammatik und Fremdsprachenerwerb: Kognitive, psycholinguistische und erwerbstheoretische Perspektiven [Grammar and second language acquisition: Cognitive, psycholinguistic and learning theoretical perspectives]. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 2002.
Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 42(2), 125-126.

Ecke, P. (2003). Philip Herdina and Ulrike Jessner: A dynamic model of multilingualism. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, 2002. Applied Linguistics, 24 (1), 125-129.

Ecke, P. (2001). Britta Hufeisen and Beate Lindemann (Eds.): Tertiärsprachen: Theorien, Modelle, Methoden. Stauffenburg Verlag Linguistik, Tübingen, 1998. Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German, 34 (2), 207-208.

Ecke, P. (2001). Jürgen Handke and Frauke Intemann: Die interaktive Einführung in die Linguistik 2.0: Ein interaktiver Kurs für Studenten der Sprachwissenschaft. Hueber, 2000. Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German, 34 (2), 191-192.

Ecke, P. (1999). Mathilda Holzman: The language of children: Evolution and development of secondary consciousness and language (2nd Edition). Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997. Applied Linguistics, 20 (1), 140-143.

Ecke, P. (1999). Aquilino Sánchez Pérez: Los métodos en la enseñanza de idiomas: Evolución histórica y análisis didáctico. [Aquilino Sánchez Pérez: Methods of foreign language teaching: Evolution and didactic analysis]. Madrid SGEL Educación, 1997." Spanish Applied Linguistics, 3 (1), 130-132.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. H. (September, accepted). Tip-of-the-tongue states in a first, second, and third language: Developmental changes in lexical retrieval. 5^th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Sterling, Scotland, UK

Ecke, P. (2007, April, accepted). Students producing film DVDs in foreign language classes. Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), Las Vegas, Nevada.

Badstübner, T., & Ecke, P. (March, 2007). Students’ expectations, target language use, and perceived learning progress in a summer study abroad program in Germany. SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Ecke, P. (2007, March). "Apachen" and "Ulzana": How East Germans Imagined the Southwest in two Westerns. Building Bridges: International Conference on Transcultural German Studies. The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Ecke, P. (2006, October). Video projects in foreign language courses. Arizona Language Association (AZLA) and PAL conference, Tucson, Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2006, May). Working with Foreign DVDs: Region Code and Copy Protection Problems. CALICO Annual Symposium. The University of Hawaii, Manoa, Oahu, Hawaii.

Ecke, P. (2006, April). "Apachen" and "Ulzana": How East Germans Imagined the Southwest in two Westerns. Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), Phoenix, Arizona.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (2006, February). Article and grammatical gender selection by beginning learners of German as a third language. SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, University of Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2005, September). A language teacher’s tools to unrestricted DVD use. Arizona Second Language Symposium, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Hall, C. J., Ecke, P., Hayes, L., & Newbrand, D. (2005, September). Form-frame interactions and typological effects in the multilingual mental lexicon: Evidence from L3 German and L3 French learners. Fourth International Conference on Trilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, Fribourg and Biel, Switzerland.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (2004, November). La adquisición de los artículos y del género gramatical por alumnos de alemán como tercer idioma. VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2004, October). Seven fairytale feature films for second-year German. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Boulder, Colorado.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (2004, September). Article and grammatical gender assignment in beginning learners of German as a third language. 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), Southeastern Louisiana University and the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hall, C. J. & Ecke, P. (2004, May). Form and syntactic frame interaction in the multilingual lexicon. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.

Ecke, P. (2004, March). Fairytale feature films in foreign language classes. Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2003, November). Song-based simulations in courses of German. AATG Annual Meeting. Philadelphia.

Ecke, P.  (2003, September). Fairytale feature films in classes of German. Arizona Second Language Teachers' Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona..

Ecke, P. (2003, September). Tip-of-the-tongue states in a polyglot: A longitudinal case study. Third International Conference on Trilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, Tralee, Ireland.

Ecke, P. (2003, May). Palabras en la punta de la lengua y la influencia del inglés sobre su acceso. VIII Foro de Lingüístic Aplicada. Universidad de las Américas - Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

Ecke, P., & Hall, C. J. (2003, May). The Parasitic Model of Vocabulary Acquisition: Evidence from L3 errors. 4th International Symposium of Bilingualism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2003, March). Cross-linguistic influence in multilinguals. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Airlington, Virginia.

Ecke, P. (2002, November). La influencia del inglés sobre el acceso de palabras en la punta de la lengua. VII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2002, September). The acquisition of grammatical gender in novice L3 learners. European Association of Second Language Acquisition (EUROSLA) 12 Conference. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Ecke, P. (2002, September). Presenting in a foreign language to learners with zero prior knowledge: An example in German. Arizona Second Language Teachers' Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2002, April). Palabras en la punta de la lengua y la influencia del inglés sobre su acceso. 19th National Conference on Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages in the Ibero-American World. University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Ecke, P. (2001, October). Cross-lexical influence in the speech of novice L3 learners. Pacific Second Language Research Forum. University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu.

Ecke, P. (2001, September). Song-based simulations and second language acquisition. Arizona Second Language Teachers’ Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2001, May). Die neuen deutschen Rechtschreibregeln. AMPAL (Mexican Association of Teachers of German), Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2001, March). Las fases de la producción léxica: Investigaciones sobre problemas en la búsqueda de palabras y errores en el habla de los sujetos bilingües. 1er Congreso de Responsables de Proyectos de Investigación del Comité de Ciencias Humanas y de la Conducta, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2000, November). Variables cognitivas en la declinación del léxico. VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2000, October). Lexical retrieval in a first, second, and third language: Evidence from tip-of-the-tongue states. The Second International Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Ecke, P. (2000, October). Words on the tip of the tongue: A study of lexical retrieval failures in speakers of Spanish as a heritage language. Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO 29), Puebla, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2000, July). What lexical errors and tip-of-the-tongue states can tell us about word learning and production. XXth FIPLV World Congress, Paris, France.

Ecke, P. (2000, May). Word associations in tip-of-the-tongue states: Evidence for conceptual relations and phonological representations. V Conference on Applied Linguistics, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2000, April). Métodos para la investigación de variables cognitivas en la declinación de las lenguas. III Coloquio de Lingüística en la ENAH, Mexico City, Mexico.

Ecke, P. (2000, March). Tip-of-the-tongue states in a first, second, and third language: Windows on conceptual and phonological representation. The First Landau International Symposium - Cognitive Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, and Linguistic Theory. University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Ecke, P. (2000, March). Recuperación léxica en un tercer idioma: Evidencia de errores y palabras en la punta de la lengua. XIV Foro de Especialistas Universitarios en Lenguas Extranjeras (FEULE). Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.

INVITED EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS

Ecke, P. (2002, June). Substitutionsfehler und Wörter auf der Zunge: Evidenz für das mentale Lexikon. Herder-Institute, The University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Ecke, P. (1998, April). Mnemotécnicas en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. Escuela de Lenguas, Viernes Académico de la Benemérita Universidad Autónomo de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

INVITED INTERNAL PRESENTATIONS

Ecke, P. (2002, November). The acquisition of grammatical gender in novice L3 learners. Colloquium 
Series in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2001, November). Vocabulary acquisition and cross-lexical influence in novice L3 learners.
Colloquium Series in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Ecke, P. (2000, September). What lexical errors and tip-of-the-tongue states can tell us about word learning and production. Colloquium Series in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

O'Reilly, Mary (2000). An analysis of adult Spanish speakers' written and spoken syntactic errors and their possible sources. Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla.

Espinosa Mendoza, J. T. (1999). Are mnemonics efficient tools for memorizing abstract English words? Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla.

Gupton, H. (1999). An analysis of orally produced lexical errors of third language learners. Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla.

Ricaño Miranda, E. (1999). First language attrition in immigrant Spanish speakers. Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla.

Campaña Rubio, E. B. (1998). The tip of the tongue phenomenon in EFL learners: An experimental study. Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla.

Flores Salgado, E. (1998). A comparative study of pragmatic transfer in the use of 'requests' between Mexican and American speakers. Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla.