Teaching
Courses Taught at Georgia State University
Undergraduate Courses
2021 Introduction to English Linguistics
2102 Introduction to Language
2231 Understanding Miscommunication (formerly as PERS 2001 Perspectives on Comparative Culture: Understanding Miscommunication)
AL 3021 Introduction to Linguistics
AL 3031 Language in Society
AL 4011 Phonetics and Phonology
Graduate Courses
8240 General Linguistics
8400 Preparation for Undergraduate Teaching
8470 Sociolinguistics
8770 Conversation Analysis
8955 Academic Socialization
8970 Linguistic Analysis
8977 Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language Perception, Attitudes, and Ideologies (formerly as AL 8972 Seminar in Language & Communication: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Ideologies about Non-Native Language)
8992 Seminar in Language Teaching: Critical Pedagogy
Dissertations Supervised
in progress Ye Lin Park. Investigating ITAs’ Use of English Prosodic Features in the Classroom: Tracking Development and Perceptions. Applied Linguistics & ESL.
2021 Taylor Chlapowski. Linguistic Perceptions and Ideologies of Race and Whiteness in the USA. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2019 Jessica Lian. Reimagining multilingualism from the heritage speaker perspective: A view of language brokering through the lens of translanguaging and resemiotization. Applied Linguistics & ESL, fall.
2016 Nicholas Subtirelu, Linguistic diversity and the politics of international inclusion in higher education: A critical sociolinguistic study of international teaching assistants. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2013 Jason Litzenberg. An investigation of pre-service English language teacher attitudes towards varieties of English in interaction. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2009 Guiling Hu. Cognitive mechanisms underlying second language listening comprehension. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2008 Iryna Kozlova (co-advisor). The use of conversational joking by international teaching assistants in the university classroom. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
Dissertation Committees
in progress Xian (Jan) Li. Exploring Interactional Competence in a Video-mediated Speaking Test: The Role of Nonverbal Behaviors and Test Format. Applied Linguistics & ESL.
2023 Yi (Laura) Tan. Toward Including Second Language Varieties of English on High-Stakes International Tests of English Proficiency: A Perceptual Adaptation Study. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2023 Haoshan (Sally) Ren. Bridging Corpus Linguistics to ITA Training and Testing: Validation of Functional Language in Academic Lectures. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2022 Katherine Yaw. Impact of accent familiarity training on listener processing of L2 accented speech. Northern Arizona University, spring.
2020 Selahattin Yilmaz. A constructional analysis of written academic English as a lingua franca: The case of unedited and edited research writing. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2020 William Lake. Seeking the unseen humanities macrostructures: The use of corpus- and genre-assisted research methodologies to analyze written norms in English and Spanish literary criticism articles. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2020 Mackenzie Bristow. Language program development through internationalization. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2018 YeonJoo Jung. The role of socially-mediated alignment in the development of second language grammar and vocabulary: Comparing face-to-face and synchronous mobile-mediated communication. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2016 Sarah Goodwin. Locus of control in L2 English listening assessment. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2014 Meghan Pendergast. Teachers’ perceptions of accent on formative reading assessments. College of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, spring.
2013 Amanda Lanier Temples. Constructing Arabic as Heritage: Investment in Language, Literacy, and Identity among Young U.S. Learners. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2012 Caroline Payant. Learner-learner interaction: An exploration of the mediating functions of multilingual learners’ languages in an L3 foreign language classroom. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2012 Lauren Lukkarila. Theory to practice, practice to theory: Developing a critical and feminist pedagogy for an English as Second Language academic writing classroom. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2011 Eliana Hirano. Refugees negotiating academic literacies in first-year college: Challenges, strategies, and resources. Applied Linguistics & ESL, fall.
2011 Lijuan Ye. Teaching and Learning Chinese as a foreign language in the United States: To delay or not to delay the character introduction. Applied Linguistics & ESL, fall.
2011 Nur Yigitoglu. Exploring second language writing teacher cognition. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2011 Amanda Baker. Pronunciation pedagogy: Second language teacher cognition and practice. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2011 Joseph Lee. A genre analysis of second language classroom discourse: Exploring the rhetorical, linguistic, and contextual dimensions of language lessons. Applied Linguistics & ESL, spring.
2010 Cheongmin Yook. Korean teachers’ beliefs about English language education and their impacts upon Ministry of Education-initiated reforms. Applied Linguistics & ESL, summer.
2009 Price Webb. Factors affecting construction of science discourse in the context of an extracurricular science and technology project. College of Education, Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, spring.
2008 Jayoung Choi. Asian English language learners’ identity construction in an after school Read, Talk, & Wiki Club. College of Education, Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, fall.
2008 Lori Fredricks. Voices of English as a foreign language students in Tajikistan: Exploring sociocultural discourse through extensive reading. College of Education, Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, fall.
2007 Yesim Canga-Ozbarlas. Crossing borders from a critical stance: Case studies on German and U.S. female minority teachers’ perspective on multicultural education. College of Education, Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology, spring.