Lorena Valmori
July 1, 2016
My experiences as a lifelong language learner and a foreign language teacher fostered my interest in pursuing a PhD in Second Language Studies, which I completed in summer 2016. I…
Yeon Heo
May 11, 2016
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…
De Costa Presented with Emerging Scholar Award
April 24, 2016
Peter De Costa, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, has earned the 2016 Emerging Scholar Award of the Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group…
Laura Ballard
April 16, 2016
My interest in languages all started when I worked alongside a group of Spanish international students at a summer camp. I was intrigued by the challenge of communicating with second language…
Ina Choi
March 16, 2016
I joined the Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program in fall 2012 after earning an MA in Foreign and Second Language Education at the Ohio State University. I was awarded a…
Koen Van Gorp
January 17, 2016
From a young age, I wanted to become a teacher. A history teacher at first, but in my last year of high school I switched to Germanic Philology, which basically…
PhD Candidate Researches Motivational Aspects of Second Language Learning
December 24, 2015
The fifth of nine children, who grew up in the city of Khorramabad in mountainous western Iran, Mostafa Papi already had significant learning, teaching, and academic experience in Iran when…
Roman Chepyshko
December 16, 2015
My interests in Second Language Acquisition have been evolving throughout the years. I received my initial educational training from Chernivtsi Pedagogical College and Chernivtsi National University, Department of Pedagogy in…
Megan Smith
September 16, 2015
My interest in second language acquisition has its roots in my experiences studying and working in Japan. In particular, I wondered why some of my non-Japanese friends and colleagues seemed…
Chin-His Lin
August 16, 2015
I am an applied linguistic who is interested in the intersection of language learning and technology. I received a B.A. in Chinese Language and M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a…