People Type: Faculty

Biography Research Interests: Second language acquisition–L2 writing instruction, L2 teacher development, literacy-based approaches to L2 instruction Find out more about Heather Willis Allen by viewing this faculty profile page.  

Biography Research Interests: I was a Russian language teacher (but I am a native speaker of Korean) before I went to the University of Iowa to study Second Language Acquisition. My research focuses on learnability problems within the framework of generative linguistics, or the theory of Universal Grammar. I am interested in how expressions of …

Biography Research Interests: Karen Evans-Romaine is second author, together with Richard Robin and Galina Shatalina, George Washington University, of Golosa, a two-volume introductory Russian textbook, now in its 5th edition (Pearson, 2011/2013); she is also co-editor, together with first editor Tatiana Smorodinskaya and Helena Goscilo, of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2007). Her interests include language pedagogy, particularly …

Biography Research Interests: Naomi Geyer’s research interests include pragmatics in Japanese language, discursive approaches to politeness phenomena, pragmatic developments in learner language, classroom discourse and language teacher education. Her book “Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese” was published by Continuum. Find out more about Naomi Geyer by viewing this faculty profile page and the video profile …

Biography Courses: Foreign Language Teacher Psychology   Find out more about Julia Goetze by viewing this faculty profile page and the video profile below.

Biography Research Interests: Korean Language and Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Korean language textbook development, Instructional technology in Korean language learning & teaching Find out more about Byung-jin Lim by viewing this faculty profile page and the video profile below.

Biography Research Interests: Early childhood education, writing studies, translingualism, transnationalism, justice-driven teacher education, qualitative research methodologies   Courses: C&I 975: Writing for Social Change C&I 726: Qualitative Methods of Studying Children and Contexts   Find out more about Emily Machado by viewing this faculty profile page  and her video profile below.

Biography Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, second language acquisition and technology, curriculum design, teaching assistant training, and mindfulness meditation in instructed SLA   Find out more about Will Morgan by viewing this faculty profile page.  

Biography Research Interests: Professor Mori’s research interests center on the application of the methodological framework of “conversation analysis” to the study of talk-in-interaction involving first and second language speakers of Japanese. She is the recipient of the 2003 ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education and the author of Negotiating Agreement and …

Biography Research Interests: Dianna Murphy is director of the Language Institute and co-director of the Russian Flagship Program. Her current research is on U.S. undergraduate student perceptions of the value of proficiency in languages other than English, on who does(n’t) participate in world language education at the postsecondary level in the United States, and on the …