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Ghinwa Alameen holds an MA degree in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State, and a graduate diploma in Linguistics from Damascus University. Ghinwa has taught EFL classes in Syria, and linguistics classes at Baath University, Syria. Her research interests include CALL, multimedia listening and speaking, pronunciation, and material design. Ghinwa has presented in TSLL and MIDTESOL, and published in TESL-EJ. She is currently teaching non-native writing classes and developing a website to teach 
Nawaf Alsallami holds an MA degree in TESOL from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and a bachelor degree in TEFL from Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia. Nawaf has taught beginner and intermediate EFL classes to elementary-level and college-level students in Saudi Arabia. His research interests include development of CALL materials and integration of CALL into EFL classes. 
Adolfo A. Carrillo Cabello holds an MA in TESL from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has taught Spanish beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in MSU, Mankato, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Iowa State University. His research interests include cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, and materials design in CALL. Adolfo has served as reviewer for two intermediate Spanish textbooks for Vista Higher Learning and for their online program for beginning Spanish as well. 
Yoo-Ree Chung holds an MATESL degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and another M.A. degree in linguistics from Yonsei University, South Korea. She has taught ESL courses in reading, listening, and writing at Iowa State and has experience in teaching English to children in South Korea. She has been a research/graduate assistant for the English Placement Test (EPT) at ISU since 2006 and worked as a summer intern at Educational Testing Service in June-July 2010. Yoo Ree served as a coordinator of the Fifth Annual TSLL Conference in 2007, was an editor of the 2007 TSLL conference proceedings, presented at CALICO, TSLL/MwALT, AAAL, and LTRC conferences, and co-authored research articles published in Language Testing. Her research interests include language assessment, second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning and testing. She is currently interested in assessing productive grammatical ability in academic ESL writing.
Ahmet Dursun holds an M.A in TESL and is currently a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University where he also teaches academic writing classes to non-native speakers. He is also the coordinator of the online programs of EFINST International Language Schools located in Istanbul, Turkey where he designs materials for the program at different levels and gives both online and face-to-face teacher training workshops to improve teachers' online teaching skills. His research interests focus on distance learning, CALL use in material development and assessment, innovative pedagogical contexts and learners' collaboration in CALL context. Previously, he has taught EFL classes including writing, reading, listening and speaking at variety of levels in Turkey and ESL academic writing classes at Minnesota State University. 
Richmond Dzekoe is a Catholic priest who holds a Master's degree in TESL/Applied Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon; a post-graduates diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana; and a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Sociology and Study of Religion. He also has a certificate in Philosophy and Theology from St. Peter's Major Seminary, Ghana. Richmond has taught English in Ghana and ESL classes at Iowa State University. He has also taught grammar, listening and speaking in the Intensive English and Orientation Program (IEOP) at Iowa State. Currently, he teaches first-year composition. His research interests include CALL and materials design, multimedia and L2 writing, corpus linguistics, and the integration of technology into the language classroom. 
Hui-Hsien Feng, originally from Taiwan, is a doctoral student in ALT program at Iowa State University. She holds an MA in TESOL at Ohio State University. Her research interests include computer-assisted language teaching and learning, second language academic writing, and the use of corpura in second language writing skill development. 
Jesse Gleason is going into her fourth year as a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University, where she teaches Spanish for the World Languages Department. She holds a BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan, an MA in Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has over 13 years of L2 teaching experience. So far, she has published in journals such as Studies for Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) and the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL) and presented at conferences in North America, Europe, and Australia. Her current research interests include systemic functional approaches to discourse, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and language assessment. Her dissertation views multiple ethnographic case studies through a systemic functional lens in order to understand the social practices that go on within Spanish traditional and hybrid courses.
Sarah Huffman is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Technology. She holds an M.A. in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State. She has taught EFL in Slovakia and Mexico and ESL at universities in Virginia and Iowa. Her research interests include online academic writing instruction, uses for open source software in second language and systemic functional linguistic approaches to language development. Sarah has presented and ACTFL and PSLLT and will present at CALICO this May. She has developed online course materials for an ESL reading course at ISU and currently works as a research assistant for the Research Writing Tutor project and as editor for the Technology for Second Language Learning 2010 conference proceedings. 
Hee Sung (Grace) Jun holds an MA in TESL from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she taught ESL academic writing to international undergraduate students. She is currently teaching first-year composition at Iowa State. Her research interests are language testing and second language writing. 
Ivon Katz holds an MA degree in Linguistics from Ohio University and a BA degree in Language and Literature from Bard College. He has taught ESL courses in South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States. He has presented papers at KOTESOL, ThaiTESOL, CamTESOL, CALICO, and the International TESOL conference, and has been an invited speaker at universities in South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. His research interests include corpus linguistics, CALL and intercultural pragmatics, computer technology in developing countries, and the use of open-source applications for Internet-based distance education.
Joo-Young Lee received BA and MA degrees in English Language Education from Seoul National University in South Korea and is now studying here at Iowa State University as a Fulbright scholar. Her research interest includes corpus linguistics, second language assessment, academic writing, CALL, conversation analysis, and classroom discourse. She is currently working on the Criterion research project with the professor and colleagues in the department. 
Hye Won Lee holds an M.A. degree in TEFL from the International Graduate School of English, Korea. She has taught EFL to children and trained public school English teachers in Korea. She has taught first-year composition and is currently teaching ESL writing for undergraduate students at Iowa State. Her research interests are language testing and second language speaking. She is especially interested in the validity of young learner assessment.
Kimberly LeVelle received her MA TESOL degree from Portland State University and is currently a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. She has experience teaching ESL classes (including listening, reading and writing) as well as first and second year composition courses. In addition to language teaching, Kimberly has taught Introduction to Linguistics at Grinnell College and developed materials for the Online TESL Certificate. She has presented at MidTESOL, Technology for Second Language Learning, CALICO and AAAL. She has published with CALICO Journal and is the co-editor of the Pronunciation for Second Language Learning and Teaching Proceedings. Kimberly is particularly interested in teaching L2 writing, teacher training, language pedagogy, and online course development.
Jinrong Li is a doctoral student in the program of Applied Linguistics & Technology. Her research focuses on the development and assessment of L2 writing, computer-mediated communication and L2 acquisition, L2 learning in hybrid and online environment, and quantitative research methods. At Iowa State University, she mainly teaches ESL writing courses, and has been involved in the development and implementation of an online ESL writing course. Before coming to ISU, she received her M.A. degree in Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University, where she taught ESL writing, listening, reading and speaking courses, and co-edited practice test books for CET 4 & 6. 
Zhi Li is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics and Technology (ALT). He holds an MA degree from Hunan University, China. Before joining ALT, Iowa State University, he worked as an English lecturer at Hunan University of Arts and Science, China and an English test item writer for some high-stake English tests in China. Currently, He teaches ESL writing courses to international students at Iowa State and works on a number of research projects, including class-room based research on Criterion and mobile apps for ESL learning. His research interests are language assessment and technology, computer-assisted language learning, and mobile-assisted language learning. 
Edna Lima holds an MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University and a BA in languages (English and Portuguese) from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. A teaching assistant at ISU, she teaches First-Year Composition to undergraduate students and ESL courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. Edna has taught English as a Foreign/Second Language for over 16 years at a variety of language institutes, programs, and at the Federal University of Viçosa. She has also taught ESL at the Alabama Language Institute in Gadsden, Alabama. Currently, Edna is working on a project to develop an intelligibility test and an online pronunciation tutor for international teaching assistants (ITAs). Her research interests include CALL, material design, language testing, and technology applied to language learning and teaching, especially to pronunciation instruction.
Stephanie Link received her M.A. in TESOL from Winona State University and Tamkang University in Taiwan and is a student in the Ph.D. program for Applied Linguistics and Technology. She has taught ESL listening, reading, writing, and speaking courses, and EFL academic writing and cross-cultural communication. Currently, she is a research assistant for the evolving software Research Writing Tutor for native and nonnative students’ academic writing. In addition, Stephanie is active in developing hybrid materials for nonnative writing courses at ISU and exploring research in the use of automated writing evaluation software. Her research interests are teacher education, L2 writing, and multimedia material development.
Hong Ma received her M.A in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University, where she taught undergraduates intermediate level Chinese. In fall 2010, she taught English 101C at Iowa State University and she is currently teaching Chinese 102 and 202 with the Department of World Languages and Cultures. Her research interest includes English testing, CALL and multimedia technologies in language testing.
Alyson McClair received her MA in TESL from Northern Arizona University (2011) and her BA in Japanese and BA in Linguistics from University of California, Santa Barbara (2009). Alyson’s research interests are varied and include CALL materials development, virtual learning environments, L2 motivation and learner identity, automatic assessments, iCALL, corpus linguistics, and advanced statistical analysis. She has presented on a select few of these interests at state (AZ-TESOL), regional (MwALT), and national (AACL; TESOL) conferences. 
Shannon McCrocklin is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State. She holds an MA in TESL from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she developed an interest in pronunciation instruction and in pronunciation related research. She has taught English pronunciation to international faculty, undergraduate and graduate students at Iowa State and the University of Illinois, as well as beginner pronunciation at the Intensive English Institute of the University of Illinois. Her research interests are pronunciation and CAPT. She has presented at CALICO and PSLLT. 
Moonyoung Park holds an MA degree in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and another MA degree in English Interpretation and Translation from the Keimyung University in Korea. He has certificates in teaching English and Korean, and has taught EFL courses in secondary schools in Korean and Ubon Ratchathani University in Thailand. He is currently teaching ENGL 99 listening and reading courses. His research interests are Computer/Mobile-Assisted Language Learning, Task-Based Language Teaching, performance assessment, and language program development and evaluation.
Jim Ranalli has an MA in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham (UK) as well as the Cambridge CELTA and DTEFLA. He has worked variously as a teacher, teacher trainer, program coordinator and curriculum consultant in Namibia, Korea, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the U.S. While completing his doctoral studies, he works in ISU's Intensive English and Orientation Program as coordinator of the Language Learning Center and administrator of the IEOP e-Learning site. His research focuses on applications of technology for enhancing students' vocabulary learning skills. Jim has published in Computer Assisted Language Learning, CALICO Journal, CALL-EJ On-Line, and TESL-EJ, and has presented at numerous conferences.
Monica G. Richards received her MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University, where she has taught pronunciation, speaking and teaching to international teaching assistants as well as listening/speaking, reading, writing and grammar to students in the Intensive English and Orientation Program. She has also taught a variety of English courses at Xiamen Educational College in Xiamen, China, and has led teacher-training workshops in Sumatra, Indonesia. Her primary research interests lay in second language vocabulary acquisition, especially as it intersects with corpus linguistics and CALL, and materials design.
Victor D. O. Santos holds a B.A in Linguistics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and an M.A. in Language and Communication Technologies/Computational Linguistics from the University of Saarland (Germany) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He also holds an ICELT Certificate in English Language Teaching from the University of Cambridge. He has taught English for more than 6 years in Brazil. At the moment, Victor is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University (USA). His main academic interests are Language Learning and Language Testing. Some of his personal interests are music, reading, traveling, stand-up comedy, learning languages and understanding how the world functions.
Aysel Saricaoglu received her B.A. degree in English Language Teaching from Mersin University, Turkey. She holds an MA degree in TEFL from Hacettepe University, Turkey. She worked as an EFL instructor and taught Reading and Writing to college level of students for three years. She also taught two English for Specific Purposes classes which were English for Tourism and Hotel Management and English for Secretaries. She has some experience in ESOL examinations both as a proctor and an administrator. She has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her PhD degree in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. Her research interests include computer-assisted language learning and writing. 
Karina Silva holds an MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Ohio University. She has taught EFL classes in Brazil and first-year composition classes at ISU. Her research interests include CALL, materials design and teacher education. Karina has co-authored a book for elementary school children in Brazil and presented at several conferences in the country. 
Ruslan Suvorov holds a Master's degree in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University (ISU) and two Specialist's degrees from universities in Ukraine. He has taught EFL and ESL courses in Ukraine and the U.S. As a doctoral student at ISU, Ruslan has taught English courses and worked as an instructional technology coordinator for the ISUComm Moodle. He is currently working as an administrative assistant on the Research Writing Tutor (RWT) Project. Ruslan has presented at different conferences and published in TESL-EJ and CALICO Journal. His research interests include language testing, computer-assisted language learning, instructional design, and the use of instructional technologies. 
Shu Ju Diana Tai holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a PhD student at ALT & CIT programs, TA of CI201-Digital Learning in PK-6 Classroom, teaching an ESL class, and taking part in the TPACK research team. She has taught English and Chinese as a foreign language at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan for 6 years. Her research interests include CALL, teacher education in CALL, integration of emerging technology, including multimedia, web 2.0, and open source applications in language classroom, and computer assisted language testing.
Xuan Teng holds an MA in in Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University and is now a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. He has taught first-year Mandarin Chinese courses in Arizona State University and a variety of ESL classes at Iowa State University. His research interests include language testing, computer-mediated communication, the development of oral proficiency, and the use of computer technology for academic writing. 
Erik Voss is currently a PhD student in applied linguistics and technology at Iowa State University and holds a master's degree in Teaching Swedish as a Second Language from Uppsala University in Sweden and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Erik works as assessment coordinator for the Intensive English and Orientation Program (IEOP) at ISU. In addition to work on campus, Erik has participated as an instructor for a summer English language program in China for 3 years and conference chair for the Chinese and American teachers' conference and workshop for two years. Erik is currently the webmaster for the International Language Testing Association (ILTA), secretary of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) and is on the graduate student organizing committee for the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2011. His research interests include CALL, multimedia for language learning and testing, and language testing and technology.
Ngan Hoa Vu received an MA's degree in Applied Linguistics (CALL) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has taught English, and English for Specific Purposes at Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy, Vietnam. Her research investigates issues at the intersection of computer technology and applied linguistics. Her research interests include second/ foreign language (L2) learning, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and language testing. Currently, she is is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University.
Jing Xu holds an M.A. in ESL from the University of Toledo. He has taught a variety of ESL courses both in China and the U.S. and currently works as a teaching and research assistant at ISU's SPEAK/TEACH Program. Jing's research interests focus on computer-assisted language learning and language testing, particularly second language (L2) speaking assessment. His ongoing dissertation develops measurements of the collocation usage in spontaneous L2 speech and examines the relationship between L2 speakers' collocational competency and their speaking proficiency. 
Hyejin Yang holds an MA in TESL from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she taught ESL academic writing to international undergraduate students and intermediate Korean classes to the non-native speakers of Koreans. She also holds a TESOL certificate from Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea and has various experiences in teaching children and university students in South Korea. She is currently teaching ESL writing classes to both undergraduate and graduate students at Iowa State University. Her research interests include language assessment and computer-assisted language learning. She is particularly interested in developing contents for language assessment and online language teaching materials. 
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