Department of Linguistics
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Student Spotlight
Grad Student Spotlight: Eda Yildirimer
My main research focus centers on the professional development and identity (re)construction of language teachers working with multilingual and multicultural learners. Drawing on my own experiences as a Global South educator navigating Global North institutions, I am interested in how teachers make use of their identities and emotions as resources to make sense of their positioning, navigate tensions and dominant ideologies, and sustain their growth. Upon graduation, I aim to pursue a PhD and continue research that advances equity-oriented education while remaining engaged in teaching,...
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Faculty Spotlight
Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Dunn
For me, the advantage of computational methods is precision and scale: First, we can describe language with a level of detail that no human could keep in their memory. Second, we can observe this precision at a scale that allows us to see how language functions as a complex system.
My particular focus is the interaction between how language emerges within individuals and how it varies across populations. I’m working on a joint model of these two problems that can be tested at scale in realistic computational simulations.