Service

Other research-related activities

• • 2021-2023: Editorial board member, Multidisciplinary Approaches to World Englishes (book series, EUP)

  • 2020-2023: Co-founder and co-director (with Charlene Polio) of the Second Language Studies Corpus Linguistics Lab at Michigan State University

  • 2019-2023: Editorial board member of Language Testing in Focus

  • 2019-2023: Editorial board member of Language Teaching Research Quarterly

  • 2017-2023: Editorial board member of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

  • 2016-2017: co-chair of the 2017 J. P. Taylor Social Justice Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University

  • 2015-2019: Co-investigator (with Magali Paquot) for the collection of native English data for VESPA (Variety of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase) learner corpus (in partnership with the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

  • 2015-2016: co-organizer of the 2016 J. P. Taylor Social Justice Symposium, college of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University

  • 2014-2015: co-organizer of a workshop on Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Innovations in Non-native Englishes on the occasion of the ICAME 36 conference, Universität Trier, May 27 2015 (co-organized with Sandra Götz (Justus-Liebig Universität) and Samantha Laporte (Université catholique de Louvain))

  • 2014-2015: New Mexico Humanities Council grant for the organization of the 2015 J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, on the theme of 'Children in exile: Implications of the exodus of migrant children and youth from Central America, Mexico, and Latin America'; role: Humanities Scholar, project director: Camilo Perez-Bustillo

  • 2014-2015: co-organizer of the 2015 J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium, college of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University

  • 2014: co-organizer of the Triple 'L' Symposium (Linguistics, Literatures and Languages), New Mexico State University

  • 2013: co-organizer of the Triple 'L' Symposium (Linguistics, Literatures and Languages), New Mexico State University

  • 2012: co-founder and co-organizer of the Triple 'L' Symposium (Linguistics, Literatures and Languages), New Mexico State University

  • 2012: Organizer of a theme session on Exploring language boundaries and variation across dialects and language varieties: quantitative corpus-based approaches on the occasion of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, October 11-13, 2012

  • 2011-2012: LANGACROSS: project directed by Maya Hickmann (CNRS/Paris 8) and funded by the French National Research Agency. Subproject initiated by Pascale Leclercq (EMMA, Montpellier 3). The aim of the sub-project is to compare the linguistic means available in French and English for the expression of informational structure and temporality. It also seeks to analyze variation between the dialects of native speakers and learners of French and English as a foreign language.

  • 2011: Member of the organizing and scientific committees of a two-day workshop on the assessment of L2 proficiency, University of Montpellier III, February 24-25 2012

  • 2011: Member of the organizing committee of a two-day workshop on the status and use of corpora in Linguistics, University of Montpellier III, June 1-2 2012

  • 2009: Co-organizer of Transitions, Humanities GRC conference, University of Sussex, June 11 2009

  • 2008: Member of the volunteering team at the Language, Communication & Cognition conference, University of Brighton, August 4-7 2008

Reviewing

• • International journals:

  • The Modern Language Journal, the International Journal of Bilingualism Education and Bilingualism, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, the Journal of Second Language Writing, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Studies in Language and Literature, Language Learning, Languages in Contrast, Cognitive Linguistics, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, the ICAME Journal, International Journal of Bilingualism, Folia Linguistica, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, Applied Linguistics Review, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, World Englishes, Journal of English Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Lingua, SAGE Open, Applied Psycholinguistics, CALICO journal, Corpora

• Member of the scientific committee for the following conferences & workshops:

• International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (2018, 2019, 2020)

• , American Association of Corpus Linguistics (2018, 2019), American Association for Applied Linguistics (2018, 2019), Linguistic Society of America (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), Learner Corpus Research Association (2015, 2017, 2019), International Conference on Second Language Studies (2019), ICAME 36 pre-conference workshop on Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Innovations in Non-native Englishes (2015), 9th International Conference on Construction Grammar (2019), Second Language Research Forum (2019, 2020), Tense and Aspect and Modality in L2 (2019); International Society for the Linguistics of English (2020), Graduate Student Conference in Learner Corpus Research (2021).

  • Other:

  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Benjamins' Cognitive Linguistics in Practice book series; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation); Chapter in a forthcoming volume on Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition to be published by Cambridge University Press; member of the scientific committee for a forthcoming edited volume featuring the proceedings of the 2017 Learner Corpus Research conference to be published in the Corpora and Language in Use series of Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

Specialist training

• • Spring 2014: Statistics with R, graduate course taught by David Daniels, New Mexico State University

  • Winter 2010: Corpus linguistics, course taught by Stefan Th. Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara

  • Fall 2009: Advanced research methods and statistics in linguistics, postgraduate course taught by Stefan Th. Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara

  • Fall 2009: Research methods and statistics in linguistics, postgraduate course taught by Stefan Th. Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara

  • May 2009: Statistics for linguistics with R: monofactorial tests and beyond, Workshop given by Stefan Th. Gries at Uppsala University

Memberships

• • 2013- present: Learner Corpus Association

  • 2012- present: American Association of Applied Linguistics

  • 2010- present: Linguistic Society of America

  • 2012-2013: Association Française de linguistique cognitive (AFLiCO)

  • 2012-2013: Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)

  • 2008-2009: UK Cognitive Linguistics Association

Additional skills

• • Corpus tools: programming language R, CHAT/CLAN

  • Programming/statistical computing: applying monofactorial and multifactorial statistical techniques to corpus data using the programming language R

  • Languages: native French, native-like English, intermediate Spanish (spoken and written)