Finding benefits for training abstract words in aphasia, we formed a collaboration with the PSU Second Language Acquisition Lab, directed by Dr. Carrie Jackson (https://sites.psu.edu/cnj1/) to test the effectiveness of AbSANT (Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training) in second language learners. Erin Carpenter, one of our undergraduate researchers who was awarded a PIRE fellowship through the Center for Language Science (http://pire.la.psu.edu/), tested this training paradigm in English speakers learning Spanish at Penn State and from Spanish speakers learning English at the University of Granada and found positive effects in both groups. She presented this work at the Second Language Research Forum and the publication of this work is available here. Katherine Kerschen, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Jackson’s lab, has also applied this training to a German language classroom with positive results.