Meet the Faculty | Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Meet the Faculty

CONTINUING FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Professor	bardovi@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 709 (812) 855-9877	Second language acquisition, second language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems, interlanguage pragmatics.
Isabelle Darcy Associate Professor	idarcy@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 718 (812) 855-0033	Second language phonology and processing, acquisition of phonology, accent, speech perception, word recognition.
Laurent Dekydtspotter Professor and Chair	ldekydts@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 730 (812) 855-2221	(Development of) interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences. Sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing.
Philip S. LeSourd Associate Professor	plesourd@indiana.edu Student Bldg. 336 (812) 855-4649	Morphological and syntactic theory, comparative Algonquian linguistics, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy.
Sun-Young Shin Assistant Professor	shin36@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 716 (812) 855-8479	L2 assessment, English for academic purposes, Language program evaluation, Web-based language teaching and testing, Statistical analyses for language study, and Heritage language teaching and learning.
Rex A. Sprouse Professor	rsprouse@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 710 (812) 855-3248	Second language acquisition, structure and history of the languages of Western Europe (Germanic, Romance, Celtic), syntactic theory, language contact.
David Stringer Associate Professor	ds6@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 717 (812) 855-5992	First and second language acquisition; lexical semantics, syntax, and morphology; multilingualism; World Englishes; biocultural diversity
Yucel Yilmaz Assistant Professor	yyilmaz@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 715 (812) 855-4968	Second language instruction, negative feedback, computer-mediated communication and instruction, task-based language teaching, individual differences in second language acquisition, explicit and implicit learning processes.
Debra Friedman Assistant Professor	debfried@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 731 (812) 855-2680	Second and multilingual language socialization, second language pedagogy, social, political, and ideological aspects of second language education, heritage language education, qualitative research methods.
ADJUNCT FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Kenneth J. deJong Adjunct 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 Associate 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.
Öner Özçelik Adjunct Assistant Professor	oozcelik@indiana.edu Memorial Hall W001A 812-855-4867	Second language acquisition (with emphasis on Turkish, Turkish and Turkic languages, phonology and phonetics (with an emphasis on prosody), prosody-syntax interface, phonology-morphology interface
Kimberly L. Geeslin Adjunct Associate Professor	kgeeslin@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 853 (812) 856-5470	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 Senior Lecturer	abels@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 312 (812) 855-4974	Second Language learning and teaching; Language Coordinator, English Language Improvement Program (ELIP).
Megan H. Connolly Visiting Lecturer	mmhansen@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 315 (812) 855-7951	Visiting lecturer in ESL.
Jeff Holliday Postdoctoral Fellow	jjhollid@indiana.edu Memorial Hall M03 (812) 855-0032	L1 and L2 acquisition of phonological contrasts; Korean.
EMERITI FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
In Memorium Harry Gradman Professor; Emeritus Chair
Beverly Hartford Emerita Professor	hartford@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 304 (812) 855-2680	Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, discourse pragmatics, world Englishes.
Dick Bier Professor, Emeritus	bier@indiana.edu 315 Memorial Hall (812) 855-7951	TESOL/Applied Linguistics