Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL at GSU

09/11/2026

Congratulations to ALESL Ph.D. alumna Dr. Mehrnoush Karimi and her colleagues on their new publication in System titled "Manipulating task order by cognitive task complexity: Associations with feedback-seeking behavior and L2 writing quality"!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0346251X2600179X?dgcid=author

09/10/2026

We are happy to share that Applied Linguistics & ESL Ph.D. student Dianah Kitiabi won the "Best Student Presentation Award" at the 18th Annual Kenya Scholars and Studies Association (KESSA) Conference held in Orlando, FL!

Congratulations, Dianah!

09/09/2026

Congratulations to AL PhD student Anton Vegel, who has just published a new research article in the journal Applied Corpus Linguistics! The article is entitled “Lexical proficiency and automated proficiency detection: Assessing the utility of frequency, context, and semantics” and available for free download for the next 50 days!

09/09/2026

Double congratulations to AL PhD student Dayoung Joo and co-authors, including Dr. YouJin Kim, who have just published TWO new articles— one on collaborative reading with AI vs peers, in Teaching and Teacher Education; the other on the influence of input modality and listening anxiety on young learners’ second language listening comprehension, in Language Teaching for Young Learners! 👏🏻👏🏻

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X26002210

https://benjamins.com/catalog/ltyl.ofa

09/09/2026

Congratulations to AL PhD student Heejoon Choi and Dr. YouJin Kim, who just published a new co-authored article about digital multimodal composing (DMC) and its learning outcomes in Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching! 👏🏻

Integrated reading-to-write tasks have been widely used to enhance second language (L2) learners’ writing skills and benefit other areas of L2 learning, such as reading and vocabulary. Although these benefits of integrated tasks have been widely investigated in traditional text-based monomodal wri...

09/08/2026

On Friday (9/4), Ph.D. students in the Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL met with Drs. Scott Crossley (former ALESL faculty), Cindy Berger, and Stephen Skalicky (ALESL Ph.D. alumni) to discuss the academic job market and success in the Ph.D. program! We appreciate their visit and valuable insight into navigating grad school and beyond!

09/02/2026

Congratulations to AL PhD student Alex Duah and Dr. Dylan Burton on their new publication on “Language Assessment” in AL Forum, the newsletter of the TESOL Applied Linguistics Interest Section! Check it out at the link below!

The Applied Linguistics Interest Section (ALIS) promotes research in all areas of language use, particularly research that contributes to our understanding of language learning and teaching. This Interest Section aims to promulgate knowledge derived from such research among its members, among the br...

08/21/2026

A big, warm welcome to our new MA and PhD students! It was great to meet you all at the new student orientation this morning, and we look forward to having you join the AL family and working with you over the coming semesters! 

08/13/2026

We are thrilled to see Ph.D. Student Sak Lee featured in the GSU News Hub! Sak was awarded the prestigious Young Students Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes his innovative research in language assessment for young learners. Congratulations, Sak!
https://news.gsu.edu/2026/08/11/georgia-state-ph-d-student-awarded-prestigious-ets-fellowship/

The 12-month fellowship will support Sak Lee's research on language assessment for young learners.