The MACAWS Team

Shelley Staples (PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, 2014) is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the use of corpus-based discourse analysis to investigate language use across spoken and written contexts. In addition, her research aims to inform language teaching and assessment, particularly in the areas of English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP). In addition to MACAWS, she is a PI of the Corpus and Repository of Writing (Crow).

Adriana Picoral holds a PhD in applied linguistics and a bachelor's degree in computer science. Her research draws from corpus and computational linguistics to shed light on multilingual language use, acquisition, and development. She has extensive experience in collecting, processing, maintaining, and analyzing language data, both in academic settings and in industry. She is also the founder of R-Ladies Tucson, which is part of a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community.

Dr. Aleksey Novikov earned his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Arizona. His academic interests include register variation, L2 Russian syntactic and morphological complexity development, corpus-informed pedagogy and Data-driven Learning (DDL), course design, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and more generally, usage-based approaches to L2 language learning and teaching in English and Russian.

Bruna is an Assistant Professor at the Master of Arts in Foreign Language Teaching at Michigan State University. She holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. She teaches graduate-level classes for language teachers with focus on language, writing and corpora, and uses MACAWS materials to teach teachers about DDL and teaching with learner corpora.

Valentina is a PhD candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She currently teaches Russian language courses at the same university. Valentina's research interests include translanguaging, embodied learning/communication, technology for language learning, and teacher training and perceptions.

Mariana is a PhD candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She is an instructor of Portuguese at the same institution. Her research interests include phonological acquisition of L2/L3, bilingual speech, learner corpora, and data-driven language learning.

Asya is a PhD student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She is an instructor of Russian at the same institution. Her research interests include curriculum and material development, multiliteracies, and technology for language learning.