Iowa State University

Congratulations to Noëmie Sollier, Abdulrahman Alharthi, April Tan, Gulbahar Beckett, Jeanne Beck, Agata Guskaroska, and Zoë Zawadzki for their presentation at Eurocall titled "A ground-breaking PBLL application for teaching, learning, and assessment with success"!

Congratulations to Dr. Gary Ockey and Reza Neiriz for the publication of their article "Evaluating technology-mediated second language oral communication assessment delivery models" in the journal Assessment in Education (special issue). Here is the link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/epri/CTSFVFMMBRF8WAQINW8R/full

Congratulations, Ivana!

Congratulations to ALT's Agata Guskaroska for the recent publication of her article "The role of face masks on speech intelligibility for native and nonnative speakers of English: Graduate students’ experiences" in the Journal of Academic Language and Learning! https://journal.aall.org.au/index.php/jall/article/view/739

Congratulations to TESL/AL’s Cheick Diagne for successfully defending his thesis!

Here are the research group meeting times and dates for this semester!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Shamini Shetye, who has successfully defended her excellent master’s thesis, Analysis of three-word lexical bundles in the argumentative essays of learners at various levels of language development! Committee members: Bethany Gray, Elena Cotos, and Jo Mackiewicz.

Congratulations to Dr. Gulbahar Beckett for presenting at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress this week! Her presentation was titled "Critical Applied Linguistics and Critical CALL: Social Media Analysis." Great work, Dr. Beckett!

Congratulations to Jeanne Beck, Gulbahar Beckett, Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi, Ali Garib, Agata Guskaroska, Noëmie Sollier, Junghun Yang, and Zoë Zawadzki for their recent presentation at Eurocall titled "Maximizing technology use in project-based learning: Looking back and moving forward"!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Huffman!

Congratulations, Dr. Gray!

Congratulations to former visiting scholar Wei Zhang and ALT's Dr. John Levis for the publication of their article "The Southwestern Mandarin /n/-/l/ Merger: Effects on Production in Standard Mandarin and English" in Frontiers in Communication! https://www.frontiersin.org//10.3389/fcomm.2021.639390/full