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Eve C. Zyzik is a Polish-born American linguist and academic writer.

Early Life
Eve C. Zyzik was born in Poland. At the age of six, Zyzik and her family moved to America. During her academic career, Eve. C Zyzik travelled to various different places around the world, including: Buenos Aires, Costa Rica and Paris, to name a few.

Career and Thesis
Eve C. Zyzik is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches a   Linguistics, Spanish language, and Language teaching methodology.

She completed a Ph. D. in Spanish linguistics, at the University of California at Davis. Zyzik then become an Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University (2004-2008), where she was Faculty Director of a study abroad program in Querétaro, Mexico.

Eve C. Zyzik carried out a study on second language acquisition, as there was little research on this particular subject. There are different types of language speakers, ranging from native first language users: L1, non-native second language speakers: L2, and non-native speakers, with no historical link to the language in question: FL. Zyzik focused on L2 speakers. The study measures second language learners knowledge of word class distinctions (nouns vs. adjectives), in different syntactic contexts. Her findings: "English-speaking learners of Spanish from third-semester and third-year courses, completed a receptive task that presented contrasting forms belonging to the same word family (e.g., "feliz" "happy" and "felicidad" "happiness")". The results indicate that learners from both groups are often unable to distinguish among word classes. Learners have difficulty in identifying the difference between adjectives and nouns. Zyzik's findings suggest that L2 learners do not always recognise derivational suffixes that mark word class. These difficulties may arise from weak syntactic morphological knowledge.

Books
Blake, R. and Zyzik, E. (2016). El español y la lingüística aplicada. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Zyzik, E. and Polio, C. (2017). Authentic Materials Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Authenticity in the language teaching curriculum. In C. Chapelle (Ed.). The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

Algunas consideraciones sobre el conocimiento léxico de los hablantes de herencia. In J. Torres and D. Pascual y Cabo (Eds.), Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia. Routledge.

Published Zyzik, E. (2018). Adquisición y enseñanza de segundas lenguas. In J. Muñoz-Basols, E. Gironzetti, and M. Lacorte (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2.

Zyzik, E. & Marqués Pascual, L. (2018). Practice with idioms: Can it promote the incidental learning of grammar? In C. Jones (Ed.), Practice in second language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zyzik, E. (2017). Subject expression in L2 Spanish: Convergence of generative and usage-based perspectives? Second Language Research, 33(1), 33-59

Zyzik, E. (2016). Towards a prototype model of the heritage language learner: Understanding strengths and needs. In M. Fairclough and S. Beaudrie (Eds.), Innovative approaches to heritage language teaching (pp. 19-38). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Zyzik, E. (2014). Functional approaches to second language Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition.

Zyzik, E. (2013). Input based instructional approaches. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley.