Alumni
SLA PhD Graduates in Reverse Chronological Order (Name, Dissertation, Current Position)
2016
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.
Iina Stojanovska, The Role of Rules, Examples, and Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Declarative and Procedural Second Language Knowledge. University of Maryland
2015
Yuichi Suzuki, Using New Measures of Implicit L2 Knowledge to Study the Interface of Explicit and Implicit Knowledge, Kanagawa University, Japan
Suzanne Freynik, Comparing Second Language Learners’ Sensitivity to Arabic Derivational and Inflectional Morphology at the Lexical and Sentence Levels., Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC
Sunyoung Ahn, Automatic Activation of Semantic Processing During Second Language Processing Harvard University
Tom Wagener, The Influences of Aptitude, Learning Context, and Language Difficulty Categorization on Foreign Language Proficiency. United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
2014
Goretti Prieto Botana, The Role of Task-Essentialness and Explicit Information in Processing Instruction, University of Southern California
Anna Lukianchenko/Chrabaszcz, From Sound to Meaning: Quantifying Contextual Cffects in Resolution of L2 Phonolexical Ambiguity. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
2013
Natalia Romanova, Investigations of Mechanisms Underlying Lexical Access in Second Language Processing of Gender and Number Agreement, George Washington University
2012
Katie Nielson, Planning and Working Memory as Predictors of Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity, Voxy Inc.
Gisela Granena, Age Differences and Cognitive Aptitudes for Implicit and Explicit Learning in Ultimate L2 Attainment, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Jihye Moon, Maturational and Non-maturational Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition, George Mason University
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
Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, Looking into Bilingualism Through the Heritage Speaker Mind, Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC
Joel Koeth, Mix and Switch Effects in Bilingual Language Processing.U.S. Department of Defense
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 National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
2009
Karen Vatz, Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French, University of Vermont
SLA MA Graduates
2015
Natalie Koval Michigan State University PhD in Second Language Studies Program
Hsin-Yi Lien University of Illinois PhD in East Asian Studies Program
Jessica Young Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Halime Yilmaz National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Jennifer Freeland Toledo, OH TESOL
