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LAE Podcast Hosts Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke

February 10, 2020

Episode two of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke in her Wells Hall office about foreign and second language testing, which is Winke's primary area of research. Winke, who is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, investigates the content and construct validity…

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Professor to Research Language Assessment as a Fulbright Scholar

September 18, 2019

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Paula Winke, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, to be a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Germany for the 2020 summer semester (April through July) at the University of Leipzig. "This is an exciting and unique…

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Winke Named Co-Editor of ‘Language Testing’ Journal

September 25, 2018

Paula Winke, Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies Program, has been named Co-Editor of the journal Language Testing, effective January 1, 2019. This marks the fourth major editorship position to which faculty in MSU’s Second Language Studies Program recently have been named. “This is a true honor and a great responsibility for me within the field of foreign and second language assessment,”…

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Leading Second Language Proficiency Research

February 13, 2017

Researchers in MSU’s College of Arts & Letters are finishing up a large-scale study, never done before in terms of scope, that will give an overall picture of language proficiency in higher education. Locally, the team is providing important information to language programs in the College. Nationally and internationally, they are describing language proficiency development within the context of higher…

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PhD Candidate Mostafa Papi Researches Motivational Aspects of Second Language Learning

December 15, 2015

December 15, 2015 The fifth of nine children, who grew up in the city of Khorramabad in mountainous western Iran, Mostafa Papi already had significant learning, teaching, and academic experience in Iran when he applied and was accepted as a doctoral candidate in the Second Language Studies (SLS) Program at Michigan State University. In Iran, Mostafa received a BA in…