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Wesley H. Acorinti
joined the M.A. program in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in 2024. He earned his B.A. in Language Teaching (Portuguese, English and Literature) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, also in 2024. His research interests include English for specific purposes, corpus linguistics and Portuguese as an additional language.
Yuna Bae
is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. She holds an M.A. in English Language Education from Seoul National University and earned her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include L2 speech perception and production, L2 prosody, speech technology, and L2 pronunciation pertaining to assessment.
Nairui Chen
is a Ph.D student in Applied Linguistics and a GTA in Interdisciplinary Writing Program (IWP). Her research interests are task variation, L2 writing, and writing quality of EFL learners.
Eric Christensen
joined the MA Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language program at NAU in 2024. His research targets the intersection between applied linguistics and the humanities, with a focus on written style and prescriptivism, as well as classical Japanese literature. He intermittently publishes fiction and nonfiction on his blog, https://ericattica.com.
Nur Yağmur Demir
Nur Yağmur Demir is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. She received her BA (Boğaziçi University – 2016) and MA (Middle East Technical University – 2021) in English Language Education in Turkey. She has several years of experience teaching English and Turkish in EFL contexts, as well as undergraduate composition and linguistics courses.She is also an FLTA alumna. Her research interests are register appropriateness and humanlikeness of AI-generated texts, corpus linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, and computer-mediated communication.
Harriet Dentaa
Harriet Dentaa is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. She earned her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from NAU. Her research focuses on linguistic and reverse linguistic stereotyping, speech assessment, multilingualism, and teacher training, with particular interest in how perceptions of accent and identity influence communication and educational practice.
Dilara Dikilitas
joined the Applied Linguistics Ph.D. program at NAU in 2023. She received her M.A. in TESL-Applied Linguistics from NAU and B.A. in TEFL from the Middle East Technical University. Currently, she teaches English Composition classes at NAU and serves as a team leader for the Lumberjack Writing Center tutors. Her research interests include World Englishes; linguistic discrimination; and issues of inequity, particularly in spoken modality.
Francesca Grixoni
Francesca Grixoni is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on Italian second language fluency and language and the law, including projects on Italian L2 Fluency and the comprehensibility of jury instructions. She has extensive teaching experience in Italian and English in the U.S. and Italy. She is a Fulbright FLTA alumna.
Kelly Kendro
is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science and Romance Languages from University of Michigan and an MA in Linguistics from University of Utah. Her research interests include multilingualism and cognition, language variation, corpus linguistics, and forensic linguistics.
Taehyeong Kim
is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He received his M.A. degree in English Language Education from Seoul National University, and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include corpus linguistics, language assessment, and natural language processing (NLP).
Pong-ampai (Ing) Kongcharoen
Ing is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. Her research interest lies in corpus linguistics, lexical sophistication, grammatical complexity, vocabulary teaching and learning, and second language acquisition. She received both her M.Ed. and B.A. (English) from Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Michelle Richter
is a PhD student in the Applied Linguistics program and a GTA with the Interdisciplinary Writing Program. Michelle received her Master of Philosophy degree in Linguistics from the University of Ghana in 2022. She’s taught Introductory linguistics courses and English in Ghana and Cotê d’Ivoire, respectively. Her research interests are corpus linguistics, register variation, and AI applications for language teaching and learning.
Mark Sullivan
I’m a Ph.D. candidate. My principal research interests are L2 writing, Chinese language instruction, language change, and stylistics.
Rebecca Shaw Sullivan
Rebecca Shaw Sullivan is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. She has been teaching English as a Second Language since 2019, when she graduated from the University of Illinois MATESL program. She has worked with students from all walks of life at Harrisburg Area Community College, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the incorporation of diverse dialects in ESL education, along with speaker and listener attitudes toward these dialects.
Shujing Zhao
is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. She received her master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in TESOL. Shujing has over 7 years of experience teaching English at both ESL and EFL settings, and she is currently teaching an undergraduate-level English Academic Writing course at NAU. Her research interests include instructed second language acquisition (ISLA, specifically in individual differences and Task-Based Language Teaching/Learning) and research methods.
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