Phone:

812-855-7957

Email:

msolon@iu.edu

Website:

https://abroad.iu.edu

Department:

Study Abroad

Office:

IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Biography

Megan Solon is Director of the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages (IUHPFL), where she is responsible for the planning and oversight of summer language immersion programming for Indiana high school students, currently in three host countries: Austria, France, and Spain. Megan holds a PhD in Hispanic linguistics from Indiana University. She has presented and published widely on various aspects of language learning and teaching including on the effect of short-term study abroad programs on linguistic development. She is also co-author/co-editor of two academic books related to second language acquisition: The acquisition of Spanish as a second language: Foundations and new developments (Routledge, 2021) and Communicative competence in a second language: Theory, method, and applications (Routledge, 2023).