Authors & Contributors
Authors
Agata Guskaroska
Dr. Agata Guskaroska holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University (ISU). She has taught EFL/ESL, composition, and online courses, including a MOOC on technology in language teaching. She is the author of the book Teaching Pronunciation with Confidence, the assistant editor of Exploring AI in Applied Linguistics, and co-editor of the 12th PSLLT Proceedings. Currently, Agata is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at ISU, working on the development and institutional implementation of a new English Language Proficiency Advisory Program. Her research focuses on computer-assisted language learning, pronunciation teaching, and technology acceptance.
Erik Goodale
Dr. Erik Goodale has his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University. He has worked as an English Speaking Consultant and Interpersonal Communication Consultant at the Center for Communication Excellence for over five years, holding individual consultations, facilitating peer speaking practice groups, and developing and presenting workshops on presentations and professional communication. He has also taught English speaking courses for international teaching assistants for two years. His research interests include pronunciation, speaking consultations, and oral communication.
Timothy Kochem
Dr. Tim Kochem received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University, and now he works as a Lecturer in the English Department there. He has presented his work at applied linguistics, general education, and distance education conferences, such as CALICO, AAAL, AILA, the Asian Conference on Education (ACE), and the World Conference on e-Learning (e-Learn). He has published his work in journals such as the TESOL Quarterly, Language Assessment Quarterly, and CALICO, and co-authored the open-access book, Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English. He was also a recipient of The International Research Foundation (TIRF) Dissertation Grant, which he used to develop a massive open online course, English Pronunciation Pedagogy. Today, the course has enrolled over 2,200 language professionals from 67 countries.
Monica Ghosh
Dr. Monica G. Ghosh, formerly Monica Richards, received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University, where her research focused on predicting the differential intelligibility and comprehensibility effects of L2 English word stress errors for L1 and L2 listeners. As postdoc, she helped set up the English Speaking Consultation program of Iowa State University’s Center for Communication Excellence and authored its “English Speaking Consultant Training Manual.” She currently serves as lecturer for the ESL Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has taught multiple international teaching assistant (ITA) courses, leads the program’s “ITA/Pronunciation Rubrics & Objectives Committee,” and regularly contributes to the ITA curriculum.
Lily Compton
Dr. Lily Compton is the Assistant Director for Programming at the Iowa State University’s Center for Communication Excellence, Graduate College. She developed and taught oral communication courses focusing on English for Teaching Purposes. Additionally, she oversees the institutional test, the Oral English Certification Test (OECT), and language support for international teaching assistants (ITAs). She supervises the instructors of the English for Teaching Purposes courses. She also develops programming for other oral communicative skills for all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars including interpersonal, academic, and professional communication, and training curriculum for English Speaking and Interpersonal Communication consultants.
Elena Cotos
Dr. Elena Cotos is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at Iowa State University. She also holds appointments as the Director of the Center for Communication Excellence and the Associate Dean for Professional Development in the Graduate College. Her research in the field of Language for Specific Purposes bridges corpus-based analysis of academic discourse, genre-based automated evaluation of scientific writing, and computer-assisted language learning. She has led design, research, and evaluation projects focused on intelligent writing technology. Her most recent projects include the design and worldwide delivery of massive open online courses related to writing pedagogy, which are sponsored by the US Department of State.
Authorship Contribution
Agata Guskaroska led this project, wrote Chapters 1 and 2, updated Chapter 3 from the first edition with new activities and an improved layout, and managed the revision process based on peer review feedback. Erik Goodale contributed to writing and developing content and activities throughout all three chapters. He was involved in reviewing and editing content both in the early stages and during peer review. Tim Kochem, who led the first edition of this book, wrote most of Chapter 3’s content and created many of its activities. His foundational work and project leadership in the first edition were instrumental to the project’s development. Monica Ghosh provided a comprehensive peer review for Chapters 1 and 2, providing valuable feedback and suggesting new activities that were added to Chapter 2. She also contributed significant content that shaped the first edition of this book. Lily Compton provided valuable guidance from the project’s initial conceptualization and grant proposal development, through its completion, while overseeing project management and resources to ensure the book’s successful development. Elena Cotos provided valuable guidance from the project’s initial planning and grant proposal development, through its completion, while overseeing project management and resources to ensure the book’s successful development. All authors actively offered feedback and collectively supported the development of the entire book. Their collaborative efforts were essential to the book’s development and refinement.
Contributors
Denise Vrchota
Dr. Denise Vrchota is a Teaching Professor Emerita in the Communication Studies Program at Iowa State University. Over her 45-year career as a faculty member, she taught classes in communication theory, relationship building, nonverbal communication, and public speaking, among others. Her research examined disciplinary communication traditions. In her retirement, she enjoys working with graduate students, delivering seminars in interpersonal communication and public speaking topics.
Kimberly Becker
Dr. Kimberly Becker is the Co-Founder and COO of Moxie AI for Researchers and is the Doctoral Writing Consultant at Midland University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University (2022) and an M.A. in TESOL from Northern Arizona University (2004). Her most recent research focuses on disciplinary academic writing and the use of ethical AI. It has been published in the following journals: Register Studies, The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, and The Qualitative Report.
Idée Edalatishams
Dr. Idée Edalatishams is the Faculty ESOL Specialist at George Mason University Writing Center and earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University. Her research interests include spoken corpus linguistics, pronunciation, and multilingual speakers’ academic communication. She has presented her work at conferences such as AACL, PSLLT, IWCA, and TSLL. During her time at Iowa State, she worked as a communication consultant at the Writing Center, an English Writing and Speaking Consultant at the Center for Communication Excellence, and an instructor for ISUComm Foundation and ESL courses for graduate and undergraduate students.
Liberato Silva dos Santos
Liberato Silva dos Santos is a language assessment specialist and an English and Portuguese lecturer at Instituto Federal de Goiás – IFG, Brazil. He is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University, USA, where he investigates rater judgements of non-native speaker English pronunciation in a paired-discussion task. His research interests include language assessment and testing, pronunciation assessment, oral and written academic communication, language assessment literacy, and teacher education. He has presented his work in conferences such as LTRC, LARC, TSLL, CALICO, TESOL International Convention, BRAZ-TESOL International Conference, New Directions, and SEMAPLE.
Kristin Terrill
Dr. Kristin Terrill is a Senior Specialist for Graduate Scholarly Activities 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. She has presented her work in conferences, such as AAAL, BALEAP, AACL, TSLL, USETDA, OWCA, and TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo. Her research interests include communication as a performance of linguistic and technical knowledge that both reveals social past and impacts social present and future.
