Though my appointment at MSU does not include a research component, I have continued working with data from my dissertation research on investment in young learners of Arabic and also collected and analyzed data for six further projects. Also, my students regularly complete action research and ethnographic research projects under my supervision. Some of those have been expanded into Experiential Modules, and I hope to present more of those projects at conferences with those students. Projects over the last five years have dealt with topics including teacher development, intercultural competence, critical languages, digital literacy, motivation, agency, and identity. A more detailed list of these projects is provided on this sub-page: Research Projects.
I have presented on these projects, individually and in partnership with Dustin De Felice, Paula Winke, and Shannon Spasova, at national conferences including the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the National Council for Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), and the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). Dustin and I have also presented on priorities we emphasize in the MAFLT at the annual meeting of the Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA). A list of those presentations and slides are provided on this sub-page: Presentations.
Our students have presented work they initiated in my courses at state conferences, and a student and I have been accepted to present a paper at NCOLCTL in Spring 2018. In this semester alone, I have 25 students completing projects in regular courses that involve empirical data collection and analysis and 4 students working on EM projects that involve research, I hope to facilitate more collaborative presentations with students in the coming year.
I have also given workshops outside MSU. I trained teachers using online and face-to-face instruction at the Federal Service Language Academy in 2013 and 2014. In Summer 2016, I was invited to give a three-day workshop at the CULTR Language Resource Center at Georgia State University, focusing on Teaching Heritage Learners. Further detail and a link to the website I created for that workshop are provided on this sub-page: Workshops.