Faculty in AL & SLS

 

CORE FACULTY

 

Stefanie Borst, Assistant Professor of German and Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Second Language Reading, Technology in Language Teaching, Language for Business Purposes

Idoia Elola, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies (Ph.D., University of Iowa). Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Writing

Andrew Farley, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Second Language Processing and Production, Lexical Representation and Access

Greta Gorsuch, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies. (Ed.D., Temple University Japan). Second Language Testing, Curriculum Design

Dale Griffee, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies (Ed.D., Temple University Japan). Evaluation and Research Design

Joseph Price, Assistant Professor of French and Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies (Ph.D., Indiana University). Sociolinguistics, Languages in Contact, Bilingualism, Second Language Instruction

Bill VanPatten, Professor of Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies and Graduate Advisor (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin). Second Language Input and Sentence Processing, Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition, Nature of the Developing System, Second Language Instruction

 

 

AFFILIATE FACULTY

 

Katsura Aoyama, Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Science (Ph.D. University of Hawai’i). First and Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Bilingualism

James Dembowski, Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Science (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin – Madison).  Acoustic Phonetics, Articulatory Phonetics, Speech Physiology, Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders

Colleen Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of English and Linguistics (Ph.D. University of Arizona). Phonology and Syntax, English Dialects and Accents

Mary Jane Hurst, Professor of English and Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Maryland). Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics

Min-Joo Kim, Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts). Semantics and Syntax (and their interface), Language Acquisition

Sung-su Kim, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison). Philosophy of Mind/Psychology, Philosophy of Science

Paul C. Miller, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction (Ph.D., Purdue University). Multicultural Education, Second language Acquisition, L2 Instruction  (fall 2008)

Arturo Olivárez, Jr., Professor of Educational Psychology (Ph.D., A & M University). Univariate and Multivariate Statistics, Educational and Psychological Measurement

Robert Price, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Distance Education, Web-Based Instruction, Technology Planning and Management, Educational Multimedia Design & Development

Frederick Suppe, Professor and Chair of CMLL (Ph.D., University of Michigan). Curriculum and Technology, Study-Abroad, Program Administration

Roman Taraban, Professor of Psychology (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon). Language Learning, Category Induction, Connectionist Modeling, Reading Comprehension

Jeffrey P. Williams, Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Sociolinguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Pidgin and Creole Languages

 

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