Vatcharit (Pond) Chantajinda (he/him)
(in Thai: วัชริศ ฉันทจินดา)
Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, I am a PhD candidate in English Language and Linguistics working at the SLA Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Dr. Jacee Cho. I am also a member of the ELL Psycholinguistics Lab directed by Dr. Juliet Huynh. My current primary research interest concerns non-native language acquisition of morphosyntax and its interfaces with semantics.
Office hours (Spring 2026)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-2.00 PM or by appointment
4285 Helen C. White Hall
News
I will be presenting two papers at AAAL 2026 in Chicago. The first study is titled "Multilingual versus bilingual learners: Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of L2-English causative psych verbs". The second paper "L2 acquisition of (un-)bounded adjectival scales: Approximate replication of Starr & Destruel (2024)" is an on-going group project by our SLA Lab at UW-Madison.
My advisor, Dr. Jacee Cho, and I will be presenting a poster at GASLA 18. The study is part of my doctoral dissertation project on L3 effects on the acquisition of causative psych verbs in L2 English.