STUDENTS

Graduated Ph.D. students

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• Rebekha Abbuhl. Dissertation: The effect of feedback and instruction on writing quality: Legal writing and advanced L2 learners. (Graduated Spring 2005). Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach.

• Rebecca Adams. Dissertation: Learner-learner interactions: Implications for second language acquisition. (Graduated Spring 2004). Associate Professor, Coordinator of Applied Linguistics, Department of English, The University of Memphis. <Research Fellow>

• Lara Bryfonski. Dissertation: Task-based teacher training: Implementation and Evaluation in Central American Bilingual Schools. (Graduating Spring 2019). Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University (Graduated Spring, 2019). 

• Takako Egi. Dissertation: Recasts, perceptions, L2 development. (Graduated Summer, 2004). Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainsville. (First position). Assistant Professor, Japanese Language and Linguistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington. (Current position). <External grants during graduate school: AT&T Leadership Award, National Capital Language Resource Center Fellowship, National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant>

• Akiko Fujii. Dissertation: Individual differences in task performance: Aptitude profiles, orientation to form, and second language production in the EFL classroom. (Graduated Winter, 2005). Instructor, English Language Program, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. (First position). Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan. (Second position).  Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University. (Current position). <External grants during graduate school: scholarship from the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ)>

• Jaemyung Goo. Dissertation: Corrective feedback, individual variation in cognitive capacities, and L2 development: Recasts vs. metalinguistic feedback. (Graduated Spring, 2011). Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana. (First position). Assistant Professor, Department of English Education, Gwangju National University of Education, Gwangju, South Korea. (Current position). 

• Mika Hama. Dissertation: Strategic planning, recasts, noticing, and L2 development. (Graduated Fall 2012). Technical Lead, Second Language Testing Inc. (First position.) Director of Strategy and Innovation, Second Language Testing Inc.

• Phillip Hamrick. Dissertation: Development of conscious knowledge during early incidental learning of L2 syntax. (Graduated Spring, 2013). Associate Professor, Department of English, Kent State University, Ohio. <External grants during graduate school: 2012 DeGruyter award at AAAL>

• K. Seon Jeon. Dissertation: Interaction-driven learning: Characterizing linguistic development. (Graduated Winter, 2004). Associate Professor, Linguistics, English Department, Columbus State University, Georgia. (First Position.) Professor, College of Letters and Sciences, Department of English, Columbus State University.

• Katie Jeong-eun Kim. Dissertation: The optimal conditions for form-focused instruction: Method, target complexity, and types of knowledge. (Graduated Fall, 2012). Lecturer in English. University of New Hampshire, Durham. (First position). Research Professor, Office of General Education, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. (Second position). Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

• Maymona (Maimoonah) Khaleel al Khalil. Dissertation: Second language motivation: Its relationship to noticing, affect, and production in task-based interaction. (Graduated Spring, 2011). Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

• Julie B. Lake. Dissertation: The role of individual differences in L1 and L2 processing of bridging and predictive inferences. (Graduated Spring, 2014). Lecturer, Maryland English Institute, University of Maryland. (First position.) Director of J.D. Legal English Programming, Georgetown University Law Center. <External grants during graduate school: NSF-PIRE Grant 2010-2011, NSF-PIRE Materials Grant 2011>

• Jennifer Leeman. Dissertation: Towards a new classification of input: A study of the effect of recasts, negative evidence, and enhanced salience on L2 development. (Graduated Winter, 2001). Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh. (First position). Professor, Spanish Linguistics, Department of Spanish, George Mason University. Also: Research Sociolinguist, US Census Bureau. <External grants during graduate school: Mellon Residential Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies at the National Foreign Language Center, The Johns Hopkins University>

• Xue Ma. Dissertation: Writing in a task-based individualized curriculum: Effectiveness of direct and indirect written corrective feedback. (Graduated Spring, 2020). Distance Learning Instructor, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.

• Kimberly McDonough. Dissertation: Exploring the relationship between modified output and L2 learning. (Graduated Fall, 2001). Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. (First position). Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern Arizona University.  (Second position). Professor, Department of Education, Concordia University, Canada.

• Ana-María Nuevo. Dissertation: Task complexity and interaction: L2 learning opportunities and development. (Graduated Summer, 2006). Vice Principal, Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School. (First position). Professional Lecturer, Department of Language and Foreign Studies, American University. Also, Spanish Teacher at Archdiocese of Washington.

• Ken Petersen. Dissertation: Implicit corrective feedback in computer-guided interaction: Does mode matter? (Graduated Spring, 2010), Technical Director: Online Learning & Assessment at American Councils for International Education.

• Ashleigh Pipes. Dissertation: Examining creativity as an individual difference in second language production. (Graduated Summer, 2019). Lecturer, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga). Also: English as a Second Language Specialist, Hamilton County Department of Education.

• Lauren Ross-Feldman. Dissertation: Task-based interactions between second language learners: Exploring the role of gender. (Graduated Summer, 2005). Adjunct assistant professor, American University. (First position).  Copy editor for The Modern Language Journal. (Second position.) Lecturer at Princeton University. (Third position). Second Language Acquisition Researcher, Law and Justice Research Foundation. Also: Lecturer, Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Also: Adjunct Instructor, The College of New Jersey. <External grants during graduate school: AERA/Spencer Pre-Dissertation fellowship>

• Rebecca Sachs. Dissertation: Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese. (Graduated Spring, 2011). Professor, School of Education, Virginia International University. Also: Upper School ESOL Teacher, Sandy Spring Friends School.  <External grants during graduate school: Language Learning Dissertation grant>

• Ayşenur Sağdıç. Dissertation: Learning by simulating: Second language pragmatic development in a technology-mediated task-based simulation with feedback. (Graduated Spring, 2023). Director of Market Research, Amplify. <External dissertation grants: Georgetown University Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Duolingo Dissertation Grant in Language Learning with Technology, The Language Learning Dissertation Grant Program, and The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant>

• Corinne Seals. (with Natalie Schilling) Dissertation: Multilingual Identity Development and Negotiation Amongst Heritage Language Learners: A Study of East European- American Schoolchildren in the United States. (Graduated Summer, 2013). Senior Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. <External grants during graduate school: conference travel/attendance grants from NSF and the International Gender and Language Association (jointly sponsored) and the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA>

• Sheena Shah. (with Natalie Schilling) Dissertation: Factors affecting proficiency among Gujarati heritage language learners on three continents. (Graduated Summer, 2013). Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for African Language Diversity, University of Cape Town, South Africa then Lecturer, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University College, London, now Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg (Germany).

• Bo-Ram Suh. Dissertation: Written feedback in second language acquisition: Exploring the roles of type of feedback, linguistic targets, awareness, and concurrent verbalization.  (Graduated Spring, 2010). Lecturer, College English Program, Seoul National University, South Korea. (First position). Associate Teaching Professor, College English Program, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University. (Current position). <External grants during graduate school: 2009 AAAL Graduate Student Award>

• Kaitlyn Tagarelli. (Michael Ullman) Dissertation: The neurocognition of adult second language learning: An fMRI study. (Graduated Fall, 2014). Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. <External grants during graduate school: Language Learning Dissertation grant, Modern Language Journal Dissertation grant, Cosmos Club Foundation Dissertation Award, William Orr Dingwall Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellowship>

• Yasser Teimouri. Dissertation: Exploring the links between second language learners' proneness to shame and guilt and their language learning motivation and achievement. (Graduated Summer, 2019). Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Language Education, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Rachel Thorson-Hernández. Dissertation: Teacher positionality vis-à-vis Latinx English Language Learners: A mixed-methods exploration of identity, agency and policy appropriation. (Graduated Spring, 2020). Senior Digital Content Editor, Curiosity Media.

• Paula Winke. Dissertation: Individual differences in adult Chinese second language acquisition: The relationships among aptitude, memory and strategies for learning. (Graduated Spring, 2005). Professor, Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University. Also: Professor and Advisor, Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program and the Master of Arts in TESOL Program, Michigan State University. <External grants during graduate school: National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Technology Grant from the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship>

• Nicole Ziegler. Dissertation: Synchronous computer-mediated communication and interaction: a research synthesis and meta-analysis. (Graduated Summer, 2013). Associate Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa.