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Robert DeKeyser is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, College Park's Department of Second Language Acquisition and Application (SLAA). DeKeyser received his Ph.D. in Education with a minor in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1986. Prior to his current post, he was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

His areas of interest include interlanguage variability, individual differences in language learning, aptitude-treatment interaction, cognitive psychology of language acquisition, critical period phenomena; monitoring processes, effects of study abroad.

Links
[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bBtoRJ2ftOgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA88&dq=%22Robert+DeKeyser%22&ots=g5XB4bctYQ&sig=S2CV9pnqOtlj5qevrT1C2y8C7SU What Does the Critical Period Really Mean? - Robert DeKeyser and Jenifer Larson-Hall, 2005]

The Differential Role of Comprehension and Production Practice - Robert M. DeKeyser and Karl J. Sokalski, 1996 (Abstract)