Second Language Studies Ph.D. student Xiaowan Zhang expanded upon her research surrounding language test impacts as an intern at the Michigan English Assessment in Ann Arbor this past summer. While…
Now more than ever, people who want to learn a new language are turning to their mobile devices for help as mobile-assisted language learning applications have become increasingly available. These…
This summer, Caitlin Cornell, a Ph.D. student in the Second Language Studies (SLS) Program, is gaining valuable insight into the State of Michigan’s Department of Education (MDE). As a shadow…
The Second Language Studies (SLS) doctoral program in the College of Arts & Letters has won the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Program Community Award presented by Michigan State University's Graduate School. The award is…
Paula Winke, Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies Program, has been named Co-Editor of the journal Language Testing, effective January 1, 2019. This marks the fourth major editorship position to…
Professor Shawn Loewen has been appointed Interim Director of Second Language Studies, a program designed to provide students a firm foundation in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), applied…
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…
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…
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…
My name is Jieun (Irene) Ahn, and I am a PhD candidate in the Second Language Studies (SLS) Program at Michigan State University. I was awarded a full research assistantship…