Alumni

Alumni in Alphabetical Order (Year of Graduation in Parentheses)

As of 2024, the SLS program has 90 alumni across various fields and countries. Please reach out to the SLS director to update the information (Last updated: 12/08/2024).

Dr. Karolina Achirri  (2020)

• Current position: Director of Institutional Research, Mid Michigan College
• Dissertation title: Transformative internationalization through kindness: The experiences of Chinese undergraduate students and their instructor at a U.S. higher education institution
• Dissertation committee: Senta Goertler and Dustin DeFelice (Co-Chairs), Shawn Loewen, Lynn Fendler (College of Education)
• Email: kachirri@midmich.edu

Dr. Seongmee Ahn (2013)

• Dissertation title: L2 pragmatic development through conversational interaction: Heritage language background and explicitness of feedback
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Ok-Sook Park, Charlene Polio, Paula Winke
• Email: ahnseongmee@gmail.com

Dr. Jieun Ahn (2019)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
• Dissertation title: The Effect of Prior L1 Knowledge on the Implicit and Explicit Learning of L2 Syntax from Reading a Novel
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass, Patti Spinner, Shawn Loewen, Zoltan Dienes, Patrick Rebuschat
• Email: anji9946@gmail.com 

Dr. Magdalyne Oguti Akiding (2021)

• Current position: Lecturer, University of Michigan
• Dissertation title: An investigation of motivational strategy use by FL Swahili and Zulu instructors in the United States
• Dissertation Committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Patti Spinner, Emily Uebel
• Email: makiding@umich.edu

Dr. Mashael Algana (2021)

• Current position: Assistant professor, King Khalid University
• Dissertation title: L2 English Learners’ Listening Comprehension: An Examination of the Effects of Visual Cues and Nonnative Accented Speech.
• Dissertation Committee: Debra Hardison (Chair),   Shawn Loewen, Patti Spinner, Paula Winke
• Email: mmoshbb@kku.edu.sa

Dr. Laura Ballard-Todd (2017)

• Current position: Education Research Consultant, Michigan Department of Education
• Dissertation title: The effects of primacy on rater cognition: An eye-tracking study
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Dorry Kenyon (Center for Applied Linguistics)

Dr. Jennifer Behney (2011)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Youngstown State University
• Dissertation title: L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Patti Spinner, Rebecca Foote (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Joseph Francese
• Email: jbehney@ysu.edu

Dr. J. Dylan Burton (2023)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Goergia State University
• Dissertation title: The role of nonverbal behavior and affect on ratings of second language proficiency
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), India Plough, Koen Van Gorp, Aline Godfroid, Ryan Bowles
• Email: jdburton@gsu.edu

Dr. Hiep Chau (2014)

• Dissertation title: The effects of planning with writing on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy of L2 oral narratives
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Debra Hardison, Susan Gass, Aline Godfroid

Dr. Wen-Hsin (Kelly) Chen (2016)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, National Central University
• Dissertation title: Second language perception and production of English regular past tense: L1 influence in phonology and morphosyntax
• Dissertation committee: Patti Spinner (Chair), Susan Gass, Debra Hardison, Bill VanPatten
• Email: kellychen@g.ncu.edu.tw

Dr. Xiaoqing (Andy) Chen (2013)

• Current position: Assistant Director, Michigan State University
• Dissertation title: Chinese EFL learners’ noticing of recasts: Its relation to target structures, uptake, and working memory capacity
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Charlene Polio (Co-chair), Xiaoshi Li, Paula Winke
• Email: chenxia6@msu.edu

Dr. Roman Chepyshko (2018)

• Dissertation title: Adult ESL learners’ patterns on acceptance/non-acceptance of alternating and non-alternating verb phrases
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Paula Winke

Dr. Scott Chien-Hsiung Chiu (2011)

• Current position: Associate Professor, California Lutheran University
• Dissertation title: Negotiating linguistic certainty for ESL writers at the Writing Center
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Debra Friedman, Trixie Smith, David Sheridan, John Hale (Cornell University)
• Email: chchiu@callutheran.edu

Dr. Ina Choi (2018)

• Current position: Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
• Dissertation title: Learning Words Under Incidental and Intentional Learning Conditions: An Eye-Tracking Study
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass, Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke
• Email: inachoi@berkeley.edu

Dr. Jin Soo Choi (2022)

• Dissertation title: Investigating test delivery modes within video-conferenced English speaking proficiency assessment
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Dan Reed, India Plough, Koen Van Gorp

Dr. Dustin Crowther (2018)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Dissertation title: Linguistic measures of second language speech: Moving from monologic to interactive speech
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Susan Gass, Peter De Costa, Paula Winke
• Email: dcrowth@hawaii.edu

Dr. Yaqiong Cui (2018)

• Dissertation title: Investment and Identity Construction in Learning Chinese and English: A Case of Female Uyghur Students in a Chinese University
• Dissertation committee: Xiaoshi Li, Charlene Polio, Patti Spinner

Dr. Virginia David (2015)

• Current position: Faculty specialist and coordinator of TESOL programs, Western Michigan University
• Dissertation title: Impromptu timed-writing and process-based timed-writing exams: Comparing students’ performance and investigating students’ and raters’ perceptions
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Peter De Costa
• Email: virginia.david@wmich.edu

Dr. Fei Fei (2015)

• Dissertation title: Formulaic language use in L2 Chinese: The role of pre-writing planning
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Xiaoshi Li (Co-chair), Aline Godfroid, Patti Spinner

Dr. Jessica Fox (2017)

• Dissertation title: The Bridge: Linking mood induction, self-report, and psychophysiology to vocabulary learning on a paired-associates learning task
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Jason Moser (Psychology), Susan Gass, Paula Winke

Dr. Steven Gagnon (2024)

• Current position: Korean Language Teaching Faculty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dissertation title: A corpus-based exploration of the progressive -ko iss construction in L1, L2, and textbook Korean
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Patti Spinner, Sun-Hee Lee
• Email: sggagnon@wisc.edu

Dr. Talip Gönülal (2016)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University
• Dissertation title: Statistical literacy among second language acquisition graduate students
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Susan Gass, Paula Winke
• Email: talip.gonulal@erzincan.edu.tr

Dr. Curtis Green-Eneix (2023)

• Current position: Research Assistant Professor, Education University of Hong Kong
• Dissertation title: Intersectional identities and performed language ideologies: Stories of becoming a US K-12 content teacher
• Dissertation committee: Peter De Costa (Chair), Charlene Polio, Shawn Loewen, Koen Van Gorp
• Email: greeneneix@eduhk.hk

Dr. Xuehong (Stella) He  (2020)

• Current position: Lecturer, Swansea University
• Dissertation title: Working memory, presentation formats, and attention: An eye-tracking study on learning L2 Chinese characters in a computer-assisted self-study environment
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Susan Gass, Xiaoshi Li
• Email: xuehong.he@swansea.ac.uk

Dr. Yeon Heo (2016)

• Dissertation title: The effects of grammar instruction with three noticing levels on ESL learners’ grammar tests
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Ok-Sook Park, Paula Winke

Dr. Lee Her (2023)

• Current position: Postdoc, Lehigh University
• Dissertation title: An ecological approach: Investigating family language policy for two Hmong American families
• Dissertation committee: Peter De Costa (Chair), Charlene Polio, Koen van Gorp, Jungmin Kwon
• Email: leh323@lehigh.edu

Dr. Sara Hillman (2011)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• Dissertation title: “Ma sha Allah!” Creating community through humor practices in a diverse Arabic language Flagship classroom
• Dissertation committee: Debra Friedman (Chair), Brahim Chakrani, Susan Gass, Paula Winke
• Email: shillman@hbku.edu.qa

Dr. Ching-Ni Hsieh (2011)

• Current position: Senior measurement scientist, Educational Testing Service
• Dissertation title: Rater effects in ITA testing: ESL teachers’ versus American undergraduates’ judgments of accentedness, comprehensibility, and oral proficiency
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Debra Hardison, Debra Friedman, Daniel Reed
• Email: chsieh@ets.org

Dr. Bronson Hui  (2021)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation title: A construct validation study of implicit and time sensitive vocabulary measures
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke, Patti Spinner, Irina Elgort (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Hope Akaeze (University Outreach and Engagement, MSU)
• Email: bhui@umd.edu 

Dr. Elizabeth Huntley (2023)

• Current position: Instructor of Arabic and Linguistics, University of Colorado Denver
• Dissertation title: Ab Initio L2 Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Vocabulary and Grammar: A Psycholinguistic Approach
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke, Ayman Mohamed, Kimberly Geeslin (Indiana University)
• Email: elizabeth.huntley@ucdenver.edu

Dr. Solène Inceoglu (2014)

• Current position: Senior lecturer in French Studies, Australian National University
• Dissertation title: Effect of multimodal training on the perception and production of French nasal vowels by American English learners of French
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Shawn Loewen, Anne Violin-Wigent
• Email: Solene.Inceoglu@anu.edu.au

Dr. Daniel R. Isbell (2019)

• Current position: Assistant Professor,  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Dissertation title: Diagnosing second language pronunciation
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (chair), Shawn Loewen, Debra Hardison, Junkyu Lee
• Email: disbell@hawaii.edu

Dr. Suzanne Johnston (2017)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of Central Arkansas
• Dissertation title: Verbal morphology in L2 Spanish: Morphological deficits and processing strategies
• Dissertation committee: Bill VanPatten (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Patti Spinner, Paula Winke
• Email: sjohnston4@uca.ed

Dr. Sehoon Jung (2017) 

• Dissertation title: Second language processing of long distance filler-gap dependencies in English: The effects of age and working memory
• Dissertation committee: Patti Spinner (Chair), Susan Gass, Aline Godfroid, Paula Winke

Dr. Jimin Kahng (2014)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of Mississippi
• Dissertation title: Exploring the production and perception of second language fluency: Utterance, cognitive, and perceived fluency
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Susan Gass, Patti Spinner, Paula Winke
• Email: Email: kahng@olemiss.edu

Dr. Nobuhiro Kamiya (2012)

• Current position: Professor, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University
• Dissertation title: The relationship between stated beliefs, classroom practices, and reading research studies of oral corrective feedback in four ESL teachers
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Debra Friedman (Co-Chair), Susan Gass, Senta Goertler
• Email: kamiya@fic.gpwu.ac.jp

Dr. Matt Kessler (2020)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
• Dissertation title: Teaching and Learning in a Content-Based Classroom: Understanding Pedagogy and the Development of L2 Writers’ Metacognitive Genre Awareness
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio and Peter De Costa (Co-Chairs), Jeremy Francis, Shawn Loewen
• Email: kesslerm@usf.edu

Dr. Soo Hyon Kim (2013)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
• Dissertation title: Metacognitive knowledge in second language writing
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Paula Winke, Shawn Loewen, Susan Gass
• Email: soohyon.kim@unh.edu 

Dr. Susie Kim (2019)

• Current position: Lecturer in Korean Language, Princeton University
• Dissertation title: Assessing grammatical features in second language writing: A corpus-based analysis of CEFR features across score levels
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio & Daniel Reed (Co-Chairs), Sandra Deshors, Paula Winke
• Email: susiek@princeton.edu

Dr. Kathy MinHye Kim (2020)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Boston University
• Dissertation title: Exploring the Interface of Explicit and Implicit Second-Language Knowledge: A Longitudinal Perspective
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Paula Winke, Shawn Loewen, Susan Gass, Nick Ellis (University of Michigan), Yuichi Suzuki (Kanagawa University)
• Email: mhkim13@bu.edu 

Dr. Natalya Koval (2020)

• Dissertation title: Testing the reminding account of the lag effect in l2 vocabulary acquisition from overt retrieval practice within a paired associate learning format
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Susan Gass, Aline Godfroid, Sandra Deshors
• Email: kovalnat@msu.edu

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Lavolette (2014)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University
• Dissertation title: Effects of feedback timing and type on learning ESL grammar rules
• Dissertation committee: Senta Goertler (Co-Chair), Charlene Polio (Co-Chair), Susan Gass, Paula Winke
• Email: betsylavolette@gmail.com

Dr. Jongbong Lee (2019)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
• Dissertation title: The Effects of time constraints, genre, and proficiency on L2 writing fluency behaviors and linguistic outcomes
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke, Patti Spinner
• Email: leejongb@cufs.ac.kr

Dr. Junkyu Lee (2009)

• Current position: Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
• Dissertation title: The second language acquisition of complex nominals: The architecture of the L2 lexicon, individual difference, and L2 development
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Eve Zyzik, Rebecca Foote, Shawn Loewen
• Email: junkyu@hufs.ac.kr 

Dr. Shinhye Lee (2018)

• Dissertation title: Effective planning in real-time speaking tasks
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Daniel Reed, Koen Van Gorp

Dr. Grace Lee-Amuzie (2012)

• Current position: Assistant professor, Penn State Abington
• Dissertation title: Transfer at the lexical level in Korean learners’ L2 indefinite article use in English
• Dissertation committee: Patti Spinner (Chair), Debra Friedman, Susan Gass, Paula Winke
• Email: exl457@psu.edu

Dr. Shaofeng Li (2010)

• Current position: Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Dissertation title: Corrective feedback in perspective: The interface between feedback type, proficiency, the choice of target structure, and learners’ individual differences in working memory and language analytic ability
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Xiaoshi Li, Shawn Loewen, Patti Spinner, Paula Winke
• Email: shaofeng.li@polyu.edu.hk

Dr. Wendy Li (2020)

• Current position: Assistant professor, Duke Kunshan University
• Dissertation title: Tracing Chinese international students’ language and literacy socialization trajectories within and outside the First-year writing context in a U.S. university
• Dissertation committee: Peter De Costa (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Patti Spinner, Debra Hardison
• Email: wendy.li@dukekunshan.edu.cn

Dr. Hyojung Lim (2014)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Kwangwoon University
• Dissertation title: Exploring the validity evidence of the TOEFL iBT reading test from a cognitive perspective
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Daniel Reed, Patricia Spinner, Aline Godfroid
• Email: lim@kw.ac.kr

Dr. Jungmin Lim (2020)

• Current position: Assistant professor,  Dankook University
• Dissertation title: Language in multimodal writing processes and performance: Developing multimodal writing tasks for L2 learners
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Paula Winke, Peter De Costa, Koen Van Gorp
• Email: jungminlim@dankook.ac.kr

Dr. Jie Liu (2018)

• Dissertation title: The L2 Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers: Comprehension and Production
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid, Xiaoshi Li, Charlene Polio

Dr. Ryo Maie (2022)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Tohoku University
• Dissertation title: Testing the three stage model of second language skill acquisition
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Koen Van Gorp, Paula Winke, Phillip Hamrick (Kent State University)
• Email: ryo.maie.e5@tohoku.ac.jp

Dr. Jeffrey Maloney (2018)

• Current position: Assistant professor, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, Laie, Hawai’i
• Dissertation title: Fulbright FLTA knowledge development and enactment: The role of context
• Dissertation committee: Senta Goertler (Co-Chair), Shawn Loewen (Co-Chair), Peter De Costa, Paula Winke
• Email: maloney@byuh.edu

Dr. Zachary Miller (2017)

• Current position: Associate professor, United States Military Academy West Point
• Dissertation title: The interplay of incidental instruction, affect, and individual differences in L2 acquisition
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Shawn Loewen, Jason Moser (Psychology), Paula Winke
• Email: zachary.miller@westpoint.edu

Dr. Ayman Mohamed (2015)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
• Dissertation title: The roles of context and repetition in incidental vocabulary acquisition from second langauge reading: An eye movement study
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Paula Winke
• Email: mohame44@msu.edu

Dr. Philip Montgomery (2024)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University
• Dissertation title: Doing (it) right : Writing center consultants’ Re-entextualization of language ideologies
• Dissertation committee: Peter De Costa, Trixie Smith, Francis Hult, Charlene Polio, Dustin De. Felice
• Email: philip.montgomery@nu.edu.kz

Dr. Kimi Nakatsukasa (2013)

• In Memoriam, October, 2019
• Position held: Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
• Dissertation title: Efficacy of gestures and recasts on the acquisition of L2 grammar
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Susan Gass, Paula Winke, Debra Hardison

Dr. Tomoko Okuno (2013)

• Current position: Lecturer and Director of Japanese Program, Residential College, University of Michigan
• Dissertation title: Acquisition of L2 vowel duration in Japanese by native English speakers
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Co-Chair), Mutsuko Endo Hudson (Co-Chair), Susan Gass, Yen-Hwei Lin
• Email: okuno@umich.edu

Dr. Mostafa Papi (2016)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Florida State University
• Dissertation title: Motivation and learning interface: How regulatory fit affects incidental vocabulary learning and task experience
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Joesph Cesario (Department of Psychology)
• Email: mpapi@fsu.edu

Dr. Ji-Hyun Park (2016)

• Current position: Associate professor
• Dissertation title: Syntactic complexity as a predictor of second language writing proficiency and quality
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Susan Gass, Paula Winke, Patti Spinner, Aline Godfroid
• Email: jhpark21@ginue.ac.kr

Dr. Dmitrii Pastushenkov (2022)

• Current position: Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
• Dissertation title: Second language learners’ individual differences as a dynamic system: Evidence from a Russian Immersion Program
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Jason Merrill (Co-Chair), Aline Godfroid, Paula Winke, Masatoshi Sato (Universidad Andrés Bello)
• Email: dpastushenkov@fas.harvard.edu

Dr. Adam Pfau (2024)

• Current position: Education analyst, Michigan Supreme Court
• Dissertation title: Construction and evaluation of data-driven learning modules for EFL writers’ hedging in academic English
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio, Patti Spinner, Dustin De Felice, Senta Goertler
• Email: pfaua@courts.mi.gov

Dr. Luke Plonsky (2011)

• Current position: Professor,  Northern Arizona University
• Dissertation title: Study quality in SLA: A cumulative and developmental assessment of designs, analyses, reporting practices, and outcomes in quantitative L2 research
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Co-Chair), Shawn Loewen (Co-Chair), Paula Winke, Spyros Konstantopoulos, Frederick L. Oswald (Rice University)
• Email: lukeplonsky@gmail.com

Dr. Amr Rabie-Ahmed (2024)

• Current position: Assistant professor, Nazarbayev University
• Dissertation title: Translanguaging practices and social identity of heritage learners in an Arabic classroom
• Dissertation committee: Meagan Driver (chair), Shawn Loewen, Peter De Costa, Ayman Mohamed
• Email: abdelaal.amr@nu.edu.kz

Dr. Robert Randez (2023)

• Current position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Northern Arizona University
• Dissertation title: Expectation vs. Perceived Readiness: Using Social Systems Theory to Understand Curriculum Alignment in ESL Education
• Dissertation committee: Peter De Costa (Chair), Paula Winke, Dustin De Felice, Patti Spinner
• Email: Robert.Randez@nau.edu

Dr. Jens Schmidtke (2015)

• Current position:  Lecturer, University of Haifa
• Dissertation title: Speech perception in bilingual and monolingual speakers under normal and adverse listening conditions
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Chair), Laura Dilley (Communicative Sciences and Disorders), Debra Hardison, Paula Winke
• Email: jens.schmidtke@daad-lektorat.de

Dr. Mark Shea (2011)

• Current position: Program director, Mount Holyoke College
• Dissertation title: Cohesion in second language writing
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Debra Friedman, Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke
• Email: markshea@mtholyoke.edu

Dr. Megan Clare Smith (2016)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
• Dissertation title: Testing the Shallow Surface Hypothesis in L2 Japanese.
• Dissertation committee: Bill VanPatten (Chair), Charlene Polio, Patti Spinner, Aline Godfroid
• Email: megan.smith@msstate.edu

Dr. Myeongeun Son (2021)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Gangneung-Wonju National University
• Dissertation title: L2 language development in oral and written modality
• Dissertation committee: Patti Spinner (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Charlene Polio, Susan Gass
• Email: sonmyeo1@gwnu.ac.kr

Dr. Le Anne Spino-Seijas (2017)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island
• Dissertation title: Grammatical gender agreement in L2 Spanish: The role of syntactic context
• Dissertation committee: Bill VanPatten (Chair), Aline Godfroid, Patti Spinner, Paula Winke
• Email: spino@uri.edu

Dr. Scott Sterling (2015)

• Current position: Associate professor, Indiana State University
• Dissertation title: Informed Consent Forms in ESL Research: Form Difficulty and Comprehension
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (Chair), Peter De Costa, Susan Gass, Paula Winke
• Email: scott.sterling@indstate.edu

Dr. Kiyotaka Suga (2024)

• Current position: Assistant professor, Takushoku University
• Dissertation title: The roles of output-induced noticing in L2 acquisition: A process- and product-oriented study through eye-tracking
• Dissertation committee: Shawn Loewen (chair), Aline Godfroid, Paula Winke, Koen Van Gorp, Masatoshi Sato
• Email: k-suga@ner.takushoku-u.ac.jp

Dr. Sarut Supasiraprapa (2017)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Development Admisitration
• Dissertation title: Frequency Effects on ESL Compositional Multi-Word Sequence Processing
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (Chair), Susan Gass, Shawn Loewen, Aline Godfroid
• Email: sarut.sup@nida.ac.th

Dr. Tetyana Sydorenko (2011)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Portland State University
• Dissertation title: Exploring the potential of rehearsal via automatized structured tasks versus face-to-face pair work to facilitate pragmatic and oral development 
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Senta Goertler, Shawn Loewen, Paula Winke
• Email: tsydorenko@pdx.edu

Dr. Jamie A. Thomas (2013)

• Current position: Cypress College
• Dissertation title: Becoming Swahili in Mexico City and Dar es Salaam: Identity in the learning of a globalized language through an African studies program
• Dissertation committee: Debra Friedman (Chair), Carol Myers-Scotton, Susan Gass, Deo Ngonyani
• Email: jamieisjames@gmail.com

Dr. Amy S. Thompson (2009)

• Current position: Mack and Effie Campbell Distinguished Professor, Florida State University
• Dissertation title: The multilingual/bilingual dichotomy: An exploration of individual differences
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (Chair), Susan Gass, Debra Hardison, Debra Friedman, Cristina Sanz (Georgetown University)
• Email: ast24d@fsu.edu

Dr. Magda Tigchelaar (2018)

• Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Mississauga
• Dissertation title: Assessing the validity of ACTFL Can-do statements for spoken proficiency
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (co-chair), Paula Winke (co-chair), Susan Gass, Ryan Bowles
• Email: magda.tigchelaar@utoronto.ca

Dr. Emma Trentman (2012)

• Current position: Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
• Dissertation title: Study abroad in Egypt: Identity, access, and Arabic language learning
• Dissertation committee: Debra Friedman (chair), Brahim Chakrani, Susan Gass, Senta Goertler, Xiaoshi Li
• Email: etrentman@unm.edu 

Dr. Maren Schierloh Uggen (2011)

• Dissertation title: Attention to irregular verbs by beginning learners of German: An eye-movement study
• Dissertation committee: Aline Godfroid (Co-Chair), Paula Winke (Co-Chair), Debra Hardison, Susan Gass

Dr. Baburhan Uzum (2013)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University
• Dissertation title: Foreign language teacher socialization: A multiple case study of foreign language teachers in an American higher education institution
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Paula Winke, Patti Spinner, Colleen Tremonte (James Madison College, Michigan State University)
• Email: uzum@shsu.edu

Dr. Lorena Valmori (2016)

• Dissertation title: Anxiety in interaction-driven L2 learning
• Dissertation committee: Susan Gass (Chair), Peter De Costa, Debra Hardison, Paula Winke

Dr. Benjamin White (2010)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Saint Michael’s College
• Dissertation title: In Search of Systematicity: A Conceptual Framework for the English Article System
• Dissertation committee: Debra Hardison (Chair), Susan Gass, Charlene Polio, Xiaoshi Li, Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan)
• Email: bwhite3@smcvt.edu

Dr. Dominik Wolff (2015)

• Current position: Associate Professor, West Chester University
• Dissertation title: All in the same boat? – Native and non-native English speaking teachers’ emerging selves in a U.S. MATESOL program
• Dissertation committee: Paula Winke (chair), Peter De Costa, Susan Gass, Shawn Loewen
• Email: dwolff@wcupa.edu

Dr. Hyung-Jo Yoon (2017)

• Current position: Associate Professor, California State University
• Dissertation title: Investigating the interactions among genre, task complexity, and proficiency in L2 writing: A comprehensive text analysis and study of learner perceptions
• Dissertation committee: Charlene Polio (chair), Paula Winke, Shawn Loewen, Aline Godfroid
• Email: hyungjo.yoon@csun.edu

Dr. Irina Zaykovskaya (2019)

• Current position:  Lecturer, University of Minnesota
• Dissertation title: Remarkable U.S. English LIKE on a University Campus: Non-Native Usage, Judgments, and Attitudes Dissertation
• Dissertation committee: Suzanne Wagner (Co-Chair), Susan Gass (Co-Chair), Peter De Costa, Patti Spinner
• Email: irzaykov@umn.edu

Dr. Xiaowan Zhang (2021)

• Current position: Test development Manager, MetaMetrics
• Dissertation title: Time to proficiency in young English learners and factors that affect the time
• Dissertation Committee: Paula Winke (chair), Shawn Loewen, Koen Van Gorp, Katharine Strunk
• Email: xzhang@lexile.com