2022-2023 GSC Newsletter Sub-Committee
Leila Gholami
Leila Gholami is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics and applied linguistics in the Department of English at Arizona State University, Arizona, USA. Her research interests primarily lie in the areas of Instructed Second Language Acquisition, form-focused instruction of formulaic language, and teacher cognition. She has published in the journals of The Modern Language Journal, Language Awareness, Language Teaching Research (twice), System, Foreign Language Annals, and Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Email: Lgholami@asu.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s2VVo8UAAAAJ&hl=en
Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/3140906/leila-gholami/
Jieun Kim
Jieun Kim is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She taught English at a middle school and a high school in Korea and received her MA from Seoul National University. Her research interests include language testing, second language reading, and second language instruction. She is currently working on multiple projects related to remote proctoring, test preparation, listening anxiety, L2 unaccusativity, and a diagnosis of Korean speaking abilities. She hopes to contribute towards making language testing more valid, just, and fair. She can be reached at jieun247@hawaii.edu.
Edwin Dartey
Edwin Dartey is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. He has taught academic communication and English composition courses at high school and university levels in Ghana and the United States. His research interests include language policy and planning, language and literacy education in multilingual contexts, critical pedagogies in TESOL, southern and decolonial epistemologies. Edwin hopes to contribute to scholarship in socio-and applied linguistics by focusing on alternative epistemologies in southern and post-colonial contexts. He can be reached at ead5744@psu.edu.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, I had the opportunity to serve on the GSC steering committee and as one of the co-editors for the GSC Newsletter. Working on the newsletter allowed me to be a part of the community of emerging scholars in applied linguistics. I was able to read the work of our peers and think about next directions for research. I appreciated learning about the perspectives of fellow graduate students, and I enjoyed working with authors to share their voices. This position also focused on communicating the work of other GSC sub-committees, including webinars and events embracing diversity in AAAL. I’m proud of the work we do as a community of scholars, teachers, and advocates!
-Nicole King