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Dr. Peter Ecke grew up in Bräunrode, a tiny village, in East Germany. He studied English and Russian at the University of Leipzig (1984-89), Voronezh State University (1986-87), and the Herder-Institute Leipzig (1989-90), and received his “Diplom” in 1989 from the University of Leipzig. He taught German at the University of Southern Mississippi (1990-91) and studied in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona (1991-96). After receiving his Ph.D. (1996), he worked in the Department of Languages and the Master's Program in Applied Linguistics at the Universidad de las Américas–Puebla, Mexico (1996-2000). In 2000, Peter Ecke came to the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor. Here he has served as the Director of the Basic Language Program and since 2003 also as the Director of the Summer Study in Leipzig - Germany Program. He coordinates the first and second-year German language courses, works closely with the department's Graduate Assistants/Associates in Teaching, and teaches German language, linguistics, and applied linguistics courses. He is also a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. His research interests include psycholinguistics, linguistics, second and third language acquisition and teaching, language attrition, bilingual speech production, lexical errors, word finding problems, mnemonics, and simulation techniques in foreign language teaching. He received research support from the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG), the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), and the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). His publications appeared as book chapters in: The Multilingual Lexicon, Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition, and as journal articles, e.g., in: International Journal of Bilingualism, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, MEXTESOL Journal, and Simulation & Gaming.
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