Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Department of Applied Linquistics

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Department of Applied Linguistics Faculty

Gabriela Appel
Gabriela Appel
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Delaware
Research Interests: L2 reading, L2 vocabulary, teaching methodology
E-Mail: gxa at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://calper.la.psu.edu/people.php?page=41
Suresh Canagarajah
Suresh Canagarajah
Degree, Institution: Ph. D., Applied Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Bilingualism, academic literacy, classroom ethnography, World Englishes, rhetoric/composition
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E-Mail: asc16 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/asc16/
Meredith Doran
Meredith Doran
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Romance Linguistics, Cornell University
Research Interests: French sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, pragmatics and second language learning
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E-Mail: mcd15 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mcd15/
Paula Golombek
Paula Golombek
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Speech Communication, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Using narrative inquiry to as a method and research tool in teachers' professional development; understanding teachers' development through sociocultural theory; examining "non-native" teachers' identity and pronunciation; examining how pre-service teachers appropriate mediational tools in teacher education programs.
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E-Mail: pxg2 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/pxg2/
Joan Kelly Hall
Joan Kelly Hall
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., University at Albany
Research Interests: Interactional foundations of language learning, classroom discourse, language socialization, social identities and language use
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E-Mail: jkh11 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jkh11/
Karen E. Johnson
Karen E. Johnson
Degree, Institution: Ph.D. English Education, Syracuse University
Research Interests: Teacher learning in L2 teacher education, the knowledge-base of L2 teacher education, and the dynamics of communication in L2 classrooms
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E-Mail: kej1 at psu.edu
Celeste Kinginger
Celeste Kinginger
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Language learning in study abroad, narrative study, second language identities
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E-Mail: cxk37 at psu.edu
James P. Lantolf
James P. Lantolf
Degree, Institution: Ph.D. Lingusitics, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Cultural historial activity theory (CHAT), second language learning and teaching
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E-Mail: JPL7 at psu.edu
Xiaofei Lu
Xiaofei Lu
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Research Interests: Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL).
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E-Mail: xxl13 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13
Sinfree Makoni
Sinfree Bullock Makoni
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh University
Research Interests: Language and health, popular culture (musics and radio), urban vernaculars, language planning, police communication, philosphy of language in African History. coloured identities
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E-Mail: sbm12 at psu.edu
Sandra J. Savignon
Sandra J. Savignon
Degree, Institution: PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Second language acquisition, communicative language teaching
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E-Mail: sjsavignon at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/sjs25/
Robert W. Schrauf
Robert W. Schrauf
Degree, Institution: PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: bilingualism, cognitive aging and language, applied linguistics and health sciences
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E-Mail: rws23 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/rws23
Susan G. Strauss
Susan G. Strauss
Degree, Institution: Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, UCLA
Research Interests: Language and culture, language and cognition, East Asian languages and culture, Persian language and culture, pragmatics
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E-Mail: sgs9 at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://cas.la.psu.edu/faculty/strauss.htm
Steven L. Thorne
Steven L. Thorne
Degree, Institution: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Second language acquisition, sociocultural and activity theory, new media literacies, technology and second language education
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E-Mail: sthorne at psu.edu
Personal web page: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/