2024-2025 Social Media Sub-Committee

​Michol Miller is a doctoral student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has over ten years of experience teaching English as a second language and academic writing both domestically in the US and internationally in Brazil and China. Her primary research interests include critical curriculum and materials development and teacher training for indigenous language revitalization, follow by secondary interests in task-based language teaching, critical pedagogy and cognitive usage-based approaches to second language acquisition. Motivated by her own personal journey of language reclamation as part of the Hawaiian diaspora, her research focuses on exploring ways that research in second language acquisition can be leveraged to support the language revitalization efforts of language communities around the world.

​Mukib Khan is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Applied Linguistics Program within the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. His research interests focus on second language writing and technology, multimodality, digital genres, and the use of visualization to enhance communication. Currently, he is investigating the role of Graphical Abstracts (GAs) in improving scholarly communication. Originally from Bangladesh, Mukib has experience as a university-level language teacher. He also serves as one of the Assistant Directors of the International Composition Program (ICP) in his department. As a researcher, Mukib aims to explore diverse modes of communication integrated into digital platforms for academic purposes. He is particularly interested in incorporating more visuals into composition and scholarly communication to foster more equitable learning environments. As a member of the GSC social media sub-committee, Mukib's goal is to leverage various digital platforms to enhance scholarly communication. You can find details about him here: https://mukibkhan.my.canva.site/.

​Rika Nakano is a doctoral student in the Multilingual Language Education (MLE) program at Ohio State University. Her research interests encompass teacher education, testing and assessment, and curriculum development in language programs. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she worked as a Japanese language instructor at Emory University in Georgia. Currently, she serves as a graduate teaching assistant, teaching Japanese. As a member of the GSC social media sub-committee, her goal is to facilitate easy access and scholarly communication for those interested in applied linguistics.

​Minjin Kim is a doctoral candidate of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, second language speaking and writing development, computer-assisted language learning, English for Academic Purposes, natural language processing, and methodology. Prior to her arrival at Penn State, she taught English as a foreign language to K-12 students in South Korea. In Penn State, she taught the courses at IECP, ESL15 (Academic Writing), ESL116G (Research Article Writing), and co-taught APLNG578 (Computational and Statistical Methods for Corpus Analysis) and APLNG588 (Technology-mediated Language Learning). Her current research focuses on the development of various linguistic features in L2 learners’ production corpora over time, the effective use of technology to assist L2 learners, as well as the enhancement of corpus analysis and genre analysis methodology, among other topics.