Rate My Professor Susana Eisenchlas

Eisenchlas's research specializations include second language acquisition, applied linguistics, foreign language learning, language acquisition, intercultural communication, home language maintenance, bilingualism, multiculturalism, and language teaching. She co-chairs the International Research Network on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development. Key publications feature the co-edited Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development: Social and Affective Factors (2020) with Andrea C. Schalley; Developing Intercultural Communication Skills through Intergroup Interaction (2007, Intercultural Education) with Susan Trevaskes; Sixty Years of Second Language Aptitude Research: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review (2021); Reaching Out to Migrant and Refugee Communities to Support Home Language Maintenance (2019); Learning How to Learn Languages: A Transformative Learning Approach to Empower Effective Language Learners (2023) with Kelly Shoecraft; Language Maintenance and Identity of Families with Taiwanese Background in Australia (2022); Parental Input in the Development of Children’s Multilingualism (2022); Empowering Effective Language Learners: An Innovative Course Addressing Language Learning Challenges in One Australian University (2022); Defining 'Communication' in SLA (2009, Australian Journal of Linguistics); Gendered Discursive Practices On-Line (2012); and Clitics in Child Spanish (2003, First Language). She contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles on the boards of Current Issues in Bilingualism, Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, and Journal of Home Language Research.