05/09/2026
Huge congrats to our amazing grads!! 💙💛
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Pursue a diverse range of issues in preparation for your career as a researcher, teacher trainer, or leader in fields related to teaching and learning second languages, including: corpus linguistics speech perception and production computer-assisted language learning (CALL) language planning and policy language testing and program evaluation second language acquisition literac
05/09/2026
Huge congrats to our amazing grads!! 💙💛
We have another Ph.D. in the house! Sungeun Choi has successfully defended her dissertation titled “Comparing L2 Interactional Competence and Learner Communication Experience: Human Interlocutors versus Embodied AI Chatbots”. Huge congrats, Dr. Choi!
04/07/2026
Huge congrats to Mark Sullivan who successfully defended his dissertation titled “L2 Writing Instructors' Discourse-level Written Feedback: Teachers' Practices and Perceptions”. Congrats, Dr. Sullivan!
03/31/2026
Yağmur successfully defending her dissertation titled “Evaluating the humanlikeness of AI-generated texts through register alignment and functional appropriateness.” Huge congrats, Dr. Demir! 🎓