Current Students

Farah is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second language acquisition (SLA). Her research interests include interactional feedback, noticing, naturalistic L2 development, computer-mediated communication (CMC), and technology-assisted language teaching and learning. Farah's dissertation focuses on the effects of interactional feedback on L2 development in CMC environments.

Email: fsa2108@tc.columbia.edu

Sue Min Park is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second language acquisition. Her research interests include computer-mediated language learning and language motivation. She has taught English as a foreign language at different institutions in South Korea for 4 years. She received her M.A. in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has an internship experience at Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a program coordinator at the English learning department. She also holds Teacher’s License in English certificated by the Ministry of Education in South Korea. She is currently teaching Korean in LaGuardia Community College as an adjunct lecturer.  

Email: smp2212@tc.columbia.edu

Peter is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second language acquisition. His research interests are language motivation and language aptitude in SLA. Peter has taught English education and English as a second language in both public and private institutions to students of secondary and post-secondary levels. He is currently a teaching fellow at the Community Language Program (CLP) at Teachers College. 

Email: pk2505@tc.columbia.edu

Wai Man Adrienne Lew is an Ed. D. candidate in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in Second Language Acquisition. Her research interests include L2 input and input distribution, interlanguage fossilization, the acquisition of L2 tense-aspect, as well as Complex Dynamic Systems Theory. Adrienne is currently finishing her dissertation titled "Input Robustness: An In-Depth Study of ESL/EFL Textbooks."

Email: wml2102@tc.columbia.edu

Haimei Sun is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second language acquisition. Her research interests center on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and learning in general, task complexity and input-based tasks in particular. 

Apart from pursuing her doctoral studies, she has the privilege to work for the certificate program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) at Teachers College, which offers her a great opportunity to serve those interested in cutting-edge Chinese teaching pedagogy, helping them fulfill their professional dreams.

Email: hs2700@tc.columbia.edu 

Shan An is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, she taught high school students in private institutions in China and international students studying in the US. She earned her Master’s degree in TESOL in Moray House of Education, University of Edinburgh. Her primary research interests lie in Second Language Acquisition, including Cross-linguistic influence, the Thinking for speaking hypothesis, and Task-based Language teaching.

Shan also works for the Center for international foreign language teacher education (CIFLTE), by supporting the TCSOL program where she previously received a certificate for teaching Chinese.

Paige is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to joining the program, she received a M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Linguistics with High Distinction from The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. During her post-secondary studies, Paige developed a keen interest in cross-linguistic acoustic phonetics, non-native listeners' moment-by-moment use of coarticulatory information as it unfolds in real time, the interaction between speech perception and production of bi/multilinguals, the mechanisms that bi/multilingual listeners use to process sound variants and the extent to which the social evaluations of phonetic variation by multilinguals including L2/Ln learners parallel those by monolingual speakers, as well as native and non-native segmental and suprasegmental acquisition. In a separate line of study, her work has also touched upon socially applied aspects of SLA with a special focus on examining how language policy can foster coercive linguistic inequalities perpetuated against non-dominant languages and cultures.