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Zachary

Maher

Interests: 

Cognitive Linguistics, Development, Education, Language Diversity, Policy/Advocacy, Psycholinguistics

Projects: 

Language Science Fellows

Units: 

Hearing and Speech Sciences, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Degree(s): 

• MA, 2013, Linguistics, Yale University
• BA, 2013, Linguistics, Yale University

Advisor(s): 

Jan Edwards

Contact: 

zach@umd.edu

Role(s): 

Alumni

About: 

My interests lie in the educational implications of language research, with a particular focus on supports for students who speak non-mainstream dialects. My advisor is Dr. Jan Edwards in the Hearing & Speech department, and I am working on the Toggle Talk project, studying the efficacy of an African American English code-switching curriculum. I hold a BA and MA in Linguistics from Yale University, where I was a founding member of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project. I've also worked in a variety of roles in the field of education, including time as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Germany and as an Education Pioneers Analyst Fellow at the Newark Charter School Fund in Newark, NJ.