Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop open-source code to create a self-recording mobile app, which will be critical for researchers who work with spoken data.
MSU Assistant Professor of Russian Shannon Donnally Quinn works with University of Wisconsin-Madison to save Russian language and cultural learning materials, the award-winning Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series (RAILS) project.
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The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to recognize the faculty members who recently were promoted to full professor, associate professor, or associate professor-fixed term. These faculty were honored during special ceremonies at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in October and November.
Although specific to African languages, Magdalyne “Maggie” Oguti Akiding’s approach to second language instruction could be adapted to teach most any foreign language and is raising the bar for African…
Ayşen Tuzcu, a Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies program, has won the Richard Pemberton Prize awarded by the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), which recognizes the best research paper…
Dylan Burton, a third year Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies Program, received the 2021 Best Student Paper Award by the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) for his…
Melissa Elliot, who earned a Ph.D. in German Studies from Michigan State University, recently was awarded the Women in German Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, Forgotten Notes: Narrative Film Music…
Yingzhao Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in MSU’s Second Language Studies (SLS) and Cognitive Science programs, is one of only six doctoral students from across the country to receive a $5,000 Duolingo Research Grant.
Started in 2017 by Assistant Professor of Linguistics Karthik Durvasula and then-MSU undergraduate student Bethany Dickerson, the Bias in Linguistics project has grown into a multi-university research effort intent on raising awareness of the various forms of bias that affect professional advancement at academic institutions.
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Dr. Koen van Gorp, an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Second Language Studies and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) programs, has been invited to give a…