Agata Guskaroska, PhD. Student in Applied Linguistics & Technology, has won two grants. This May, she won the International Student Grant (Delta Kappa Gamma Society International) to aid outstanding international women with excellent scholarship who plan to return to their homeland and work in some field of education. This grant is given by Upsilon State … Continue reading Agata Guskaroska wins two awards
Carol A. Chapelle, Distinguished Professor, Applied Linguistics and Technology, was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, for the 2020-2021 academic year. She plans to engage with colleagues at Carleton on projects in technology-mediated language learning in order to help develop a book manuscript. The book will be a second … Continue reading Carol A. Chapelle awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair
K. L. Cook, Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of ISU’s MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment, recently published three books in three different genres (essays, stories, and poems) in a rare triple-publication event. Marrying Kind, a collection of linked stories examining the people, places, and vocations we wed ourselves to, is Cook’s fourth book … Continue reading K.L. Cook’s Publishing Trifecta
These events show that the Department of English’s expertise is sought after to deliver training on how to use technology in the classroom. Webinar The U.S. Dept. of State asked Volker Hegelheimer to do the webinar Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom in part to highlight the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) we … Continue reading Department Innovations in Using Technology in the Classroom
Emily Dux Speltz won the 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award for her project “The Effect of Automated Fluency Feedback on Product and Process Measures.” This project explores the potential of a computer-assisted intervention for written language production that directly encourages fluent outputting of text. It is the first study to systematically investigate automated, real-time, process-focused … Continue reading Emily Dux Speltz — 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner
Emily Riley-Smith won the 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award for her project “Research on Historic Arcade Street” In the small city of Shiso in Hyogo, Japan, there is an old shopping street that one neighborhood decorates for major festivals such as the Wisteria Festival and the Winter Lights Festival, drawing tourists and locals alike. During her … Continue reading Emily Riley-Smith — 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner
Samantha Cosgrove won the 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner for her project “Hurricane Florence and disaster preparedness: Investigating risk through the intersections of technical communication and user experience.” Using interdisciplinary theories from technical communication and user experience, this project is a two-part research study exploring communication between the government and public during Hurricane Florence … Continue reading Samantha Cosgrove — 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner
Andrea Flinn, PhD student in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program, was recently awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Meknes, Morocco. Because world events will prevent international travel this summer, she will instead be studying stateside at Middlebury College, where she’s earning her Master’s in Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. … Continue reading Andrea Flinn was recently awarded a Critical Language Scholarship
Roz Hirch won the 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner for her project “What are Students Thinking?: Development of a Diagnostic English Grammar Test for Use in an ESL Classroom” At a time when everyone seems to be developing speaking and writing tests, what place is there for a grammar test? While considerable attention in recent … Continue reading Roz Hirch — 2020 Departmental Research Grant Award Winner
The Brown Bag Colloquium will be on this Friday, March 13th, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM in Ross Hall, Rm. 212. The presenters this week will be Dr. Chapelle and Dr. Ockey. They will be providing presentations for Language Assessment Research Conference (LARC 2020) on March 25th. Attached are PDFs with each abstract. Please come … Continue reading Brown Bag Colloquium