It is a great honor to be one of the SLS students in the spotlight.

I started my karma with languages as an EFL learner. This has developed into my career as a teacher in an EFL learning situation. Then I found myself a master’s degree student at Michigan State University as an ESL learner. Now, I am a SLS student, working on my dissertation. Naturally, my research interests have been effective learning/teaching of EFL/ESL, implicit/explicit linguistic knowledge of ESL/EFL learners, grammar and vocabulary learning/teaching of adults, effective form-focused instruction, and the role of SLA researchers for practices of language teachers. As a research assistant, I worked for the project VAULTT, video assistance for understanding language teaching techniques, and for Dr. Susan Gass in editing the fourth edition of Second Language Acquisition; An Introductory Course. As a teaching assistant, I taught Introduction to Second Language Acquisition.