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Meet the Faculty

CONTINUING FACULTY CONTACT RESEARCH AREAS
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Professor and Chair
bardovi@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 305
(812) 855-9877
Second language acquisition, second language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems, interlanguage pragmatics.
Isabelle Darcy
Assistant Professor
idarcy@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 301
(812) 855-0033
Second language phonology and processing, acquisition of phonology, accent, speech perception, word recognition.
Laurent Dekydtspotter
Associate Professor
ldekydts@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 853
(812) 855-2221
(Development of) interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences. Sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing.
Doreen Ewert
Associate Professor
dewert@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 304
(812)855-2680
Interlanguage development, language teacher development, and theory-driven language curriculum and program design; Director, English Language Instruction (ELI)
Bill Johnston
Associate Professor
billj@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 303
(812) 855-4968
Second language pedagogy, language teacher education and teacher identity, classroom discourse analysis, moral dimensions of teaching
Philip S. LeSourd
Associate Professor
plesourd@indiana.edu
Student Bldg. 336
(812) 855-4649
Morphological and syntactic theory, comparative Algonquian linguistics, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Rex A. Sprouse
Professor
rsprouse@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 661
(812) 855-3248
Second language acquisition, structure and history of the languages of Western Europe (Germanic, Romance, Celtic), syntactic theory, language contact
David Stringer
Assistant Professor
ds6@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 310
(812) 855-5992
First and second language acquisition; L2 syntax and morphology; lexical and conceptual semantics
ADJUNCT FACULTY CONTACT RESEARCH AREAS
Kenneth J. deJong
Adjunct Associate Professor
kdejong@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 404
(812) 856-1307
Prosodic systems in Natural Human Communication, Second Language Production & Perception, Speaking/Listening and Variation across Individuals, Phonetic Facts as Historical Pressures.
César Félix-Brasdefer
Adjunct Assistant Professor
cfelixbr@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 858
(812) 855-9551
Cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, conversation analysis, instruction of pragmatics.
Kimberly L. Geeslin
Adjunct Associate Professor
kgeeslin@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 853
(812) 855-9877
Second Language Acquisition (issues in the acquisition of Spanish by English-speakers). The intersection of sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (language variation and change).
LECTURERS CONTACT RESEARCH AREAS
Linda Abe
Lecturer
abels@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 312
(812) 855-4974
Second Language learning and teaching; Language Coordinator, English Language Improvement Program (ELIP)
Sunyoung Shin
Lecturer
shin36@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 314
(812) 855-8479
Second/foreign language assessment, language testing for academic purposes, computer/web-based language testing, standard setting, and heritage language learning and teaching.
EMERITI FACULTY CONTACT RESEARCH AREAS
Harry Gradman
Professor; Emeritus Chair
gradman@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 313
(812) 855-3302
TESOL, language testing, second language acquisition, English linguistics.
Beverly Hartford
Emerita Professor
hartford@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall 304
(812) 855-2680
Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, discourse pragmatics, world Englishes.