Lee Her
April 7, 2021
Hello! I am Lee Her, a current student at Michigan State University’s second language studies program. Before joining MSU, I received my masters in TESOL from San Jose State University…
Magdalyne Akiding
March 31, 2021
My name is Magdalyne Oguti Akiding, currently a doctoral candidate in the Second Language Studies (SLS) program at MSU. I was born and raised in Kenya where I studied up…
Mashael Algana
March 29, 2021
My name is Mashael Algana. I am from Saudi Arabia. Currently, I am enrolled in the Second Language Studies Ph.D. program at Michigan State University. I received my BA in…
Bronson Hui
November 20, 2020
The Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program likes to spotlight the current work of people in the Program and what brought them to that line of work. Today we feature SLS…
Xiaowan Zhang
November 20, 2020
The Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program likes to spotlight the current work of people in the Program and what brought them to that line of work. Today we feature SLS…
Dmitrii (Dima) Pastushenkov
February 6, 2020
Hello everyone,My name is Dmitrii (Dima) Pastushenkov. I am a PhD Candidate in the Second Language Studies Program at Michigan State University. I hold a bachelor’s degree in intercultural communication…
Matt Kessler
January 31, 2020
Hello! My name is Matt Kessler, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Second Language Studies (SLS) program at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to joining MSU, I received…
Kathy MinHye Kim
May 10, 2019
I am a pedagogy-focused psycholinguist. I have a strong desire to apply second language acquisition (SLA) research (informed by cognitive psychology) to pedagogy. Looking back, my research focus has developed…
Wendy Li
April 19, 2019
My name is Wendy Li. I received my B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Jiangxi Normal University, China, in 2010. After graduation, I worked as an English…
Xuehong (Stella) He
February 1, 2019
Hi! My name is Xuehong He, and I go by Stella. I am a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin. I completed my B.A. in English (Translation and Interpreting) at…