Sophia Minnillo, Ph.D.

• Sept. 2025: Article "Teaching the game and leveling the field: Peer and AI Review + Reflection in a business writing course" published in Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1615752

• June 2025: 

  • Graduated PhD!

  • Article "Does order of instruction matter? A language program intervention for preterite-imperfect learning" accepted to Foreign Language Annals. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.70012

• Feb. 2025: Article "Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR): A Human-Centered Approach to Formative Assessment" accepted at Computers and Composition: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102921

• Sept. 2024: Article "AI in the L2 classroom: Serving language educators through professional development" published at L2 Journal: https://doi.org/10.5070/L2.21198

• July 2024: Article "Prompt response variation in learner corpus research: Implications for data interpretation" published at Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100134

• May 2024: Article "Predictors of accuracy in L2 Spanish preterit-imperfect production" published at International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.23009.min

• March 2024: Published a blog about language teaching using AI: https://ucdlc.ucdavis.edu/blog/bot-or-not-materials-considerations-using-ai-language-instruction

• Feb. 2024: Selected as a recipient of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Graduate Student Award

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