ALSLA Program Core Faculty
Khaled Al Masaeed
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Second Language Acquisition
Research interests: Multilingual and multidialectal translanguaging, L2 pragmatics, L2 development in domestic & study abroad programs
Uju Anya
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition
Research interests: Identity and investment in SLA, race & Black experiences in SLA, critical discourse studies, Blackness in multilingualism, translanguaging pedagogy in world languages, critical race pedagogy for world language teaching
Katharine Burns
Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Hispanic Studies
Research interests: Bilingual and heritage speaker identities, language policy and planning, Spanish in the United States: how it's used and taught
Sébastien Dubreil
Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Technology-Enhanced Learning
Research interests: L2 pedagogy leveraging linguistic landscape studies, social pedagogies, maker culture; game-based learning; AR/VR/XR
Sanghee Kang
Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition, English as a Second Language and Korean Studies
Research interests: task-based language learning, digital multimodal composition, techonology-oriented second language acquisition
Rémi A. van Compernolle
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and French and Francophone Studies
Research interests: Pragmatics & sociolinguistics, concept-based instruction & dynamic assessment, multimodal interaction analysis (speech + gesture/nonverbal behavior), cultural-historical psychology/sociocultural theory in L2 research
Seth Wiener
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies
Research interests: L2 speech perception and production, word learning and processing, open science