Alumni

SLA PhD Graduates in Reverse Chronological Order (Name, Dissertation, Current Position/Residence)
2020
Yi Wei Attentional Processing and Incidentlal Learning of Semantically Transparent and Opaque Compounds Through Reading: An Eye-Tracking Study. Beijing, China.
Ekaterina Solovyeva Cross-Linguistic Differences in the Learning of Inflectional Morphology: Effects of Target Language Paradigm Complexity. Philadelphia, PA.
Hyojin Jeong The Effects of Training for Automaticity on Multiword Recognition. Washington, DC.
2019
Stephen O'Connell Comprehension of Conversational Implicature: Examining Evidence of its Separability as a Listening Subskill. University of Wisconsin, WIDA Consortium.
2018
Eric Pelzl, Investigation of Second Language Lexical Representation and Processing of Tones. Post-Doctoral Studies: Pennsylvania State University.
Alia Lancaster, Lexical Competition in Native and Non-Native Auditory Word Recognition. DIT, University of Maryland.
Assma Al-Thowani, Speech Modification to Non-Native Speakers and Content Dilution: Implications for English as a Medium of Instruction. King Saud University.
2017
Megan Masters, Pathways to Proficiency: Examining the Coherence of Initial Acquisition Patterns within the Language Difficulty Categorization Framework. DIT, University of Maryland.
Man Li, Temporal Distribution of Practice and Individual Differences in the Automatization of L2 Mandarin Word Production. George Mason University
Jeansue Mueller An Examination of the Influence of Age on L2 Acquisition of English on Sound-Symbolic Patterns. U.S. Department of Defense.
2016
Iina Stojanovska, The Role of Rules, Examples, and Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Declarative and Procedural Second Language Knowledge. Macedonia
Payman Vafee, The Relative Significance of Syntactic Knowledge and Vocabulary Knowledge on Second Language Listening Comprehension. Columbia Teachers College NY
Susan Benson, Explicit Written Corrective Feedback and Language Aptitude in SLA: Implications for Improvement in Linguistic Accuracy. St. Petersburg College FL.
2015
Sunyoung Ahn, Automatic Activation of Semantic Processing During Second Language Processing. Boston MA.
Suzanne Freynik, Comparing Second Language Learners’ Sensitivity to Arabic Derivational and Inflectional Morphology at the Lexical and Sentence Levels., Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC
Tom Wagener, The Influences of Aptitude, Learning Context, and Language Difficulty Categorization on Foreign Language Proficiency. United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Yuichi Suzuki, Using New Measures of Implicit L2 Knowledge to Study the Interface of Explicit and Implicit Knowledge, Kanagawa University, Japan
2014
Anna Lukianchenko/Chrabaszcz, From Sound to Meaning: Quantifying Contextual Cffects in Resolution of L2 Phonolexical Ambiguity. Post-Doctoral Studies: University of Pittsburgh.
Goretti Prieto Botana, The Role of Task-Essentialness and Explicit Information in Processing Instruction, University of Southern California
2013
Natalia Romanova, Investigations of Mechanisms Underlying Lexical Access in Second Language Processing of Gender and Number Agreement, George Washington University
2012
Charles Mueller, Comparison of an Integrative Inductive Approach, Presentation-and Practice Approach, and Two Hybrid Approaches to Instruction of English Prepositions, Fuji Women’s University, Sapporo, Japan
Jihye Moon, Maturational and Non-maturational Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition, George Mason University
Joel Koeth, Mix and Switch Effects in Bilingual Language Processing.U.S. Department of Defense
Katie Nielson, Planning and Working Memory as Predictors of Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity, Voxy Inc.
Svetlana Cook, Phonological Form in L2 Lexical Access: Friend or Foe? National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
2011
David Ellis, Item Analysis Methods and their Impications for ILTA Guidelines for Practices: A Comparison of Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory Models on the Outcomes of a High Stakes Entrance Examination. Takoma Park, MD
2009
Karen Vatz, Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French, University of Vermont
SLA MA Graduates
2020
Eun Kyung Lee University of Maryland PhD in Linguistics Program
Yana Carver U.S. Department of Defense
Natalie Sullivan Houston, TX
Liuan Yang Kansas, Chinese Instructor
Yaxin Zhang St. Vincent Pallotti High School, Laurel, Maryland
2019
Matt Coss, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Rachel Chang Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland
Yoko Eshita Richmond, Va. Japanese Instructor
2018
Lili Zhang Kazakstan, Chinese Instructor
Bradford Salen Georgetown University PhD in Applied Linguistics Program
Ryo Maie Michigan State University PhD in Second Language Studies Program
Katie Abadie U.S. Department of Defense
2017
Yingzhao Chen Michigan State University PhD in Second Language Studies Program
Lindsay Cabrera University of Maryland, Smith School of Business.
Helman Tanya U.S. Department of Defense
2016
Halime Yilmaz National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Hsin-Yi Lien University of Illinois PhD in East Asian Studies Program
Jennifer Freeland Toledo, OH TESOL
2015
Jessica Young Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Natalie Koval Michigan State University PhD in Second Language Studies Program