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Kim Becker began the PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology in Fall 2015. Her research interests include corpus linguistics and disciplinary academic writing. She earned an MA TESOL at Northern Arizona University and afterward taught ESL for nearly ten years. Kim has presented her work in conferences such as AACL, SLRF, CALICO, TESOL, AAAL, and TSLL. At ISU, she has taught ISUComm Foundation Courses, as well as a Global Online Course and MOOC, Using Technology in the English Language Classroom. She is currently working as a communication consultant at the Center for Communication Excellence in the Graduate College. |
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Idée Edalatishams is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. Her primary research is in spoken corpus linguistics, pronunciation, and multilingual speakers’ oral communication. She worked as a communication consultant at the Writing Center for two years and as an English Writing and Speaking Consultant at the Center for Communication Excellence for three years. She also taught first-year composition and graduate and undergraduate ESL courses focused on speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. She now works at George Mason University as a Faculty ESL Specialist at the Writing Center. |
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Liberato Silva dos Santos is an English and Portuguese language instructor, language assessment specialist, and academic writing and speaking consultant. He is an English and Portuguese lecturer at Instituto Federal de Goias, Brazil, and a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program at Iowa State University, USA. His research interests include language assessment and testing, assessment literacy, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and written and oral academic communication. |
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Kristin Terrill is a PhD student at Iowa State University who worked as a one-on-one English speaking consultant for three years. She is interested in English for Academic Purposes and L2 socialization in academic disciplinary culture. Her dissertation research focuses on teaching and learning academic communication for international graduate students. |