Doctoral Students

Saeid Atoofi

*M.A., CSULB, Research in Psychology, B.A. UCLA, Psychology

Research interest:          The emergence of language in the child and in the species.

Language, unique to humans, is a semiotic vehicle that allows us to make meaning and do things in the world. Current explanations for the evolution of language in humans are unsatisfactory at best. A thorough and multi-disciplinary integration study of brain, child development, culture, computer simulation, and evolutionary perspective of language is needed to provide a comprehensive understanding of language and its origin.

Netta Avineri

BA in Anthropology from UCLA (minor in French): 2001 entered the MA program in 2005 research interests: discourse analysis, conversation analysis, insitutional talk, ethnography of communication, language and identity

Claire Chik

Hsin-Fu Chiu

*M.A.    Department of Applied Linguistics & TESL, UCLA

*B.A.     Department of English, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Republic of China.                

Research Interest: Conversation/Discourse Analysis, Ethnography of Communication, Language Socialization

My current research focuses on the orderliness of children’s language socialization processes, especially with regard to their regular schooling sessions in Taiwan, from the conversation-analytic and ethnographic perspectives. It attempts to offer insights to both our colleagues in academia and the instructors of the increasingly popular Mandarin-immersion classes in the United States, the insights into the patterns of human’s embodied multi-modal participation-in-interaction.

Brian G. Ellis

Timothy Farnsworth

Yoshiko Fukuyasu

Jeffrey S. Good

Inmaculada Maria Garcia Sanchez

B.A. in English (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain); Certificate in TESOL (California State University, Sacramento); M.A. in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction (Boise State University; C.Phil. in Applied Linguistics (University of California, Los Angeles)

Research Interests: Language Socialization in Multilingual/Multicultural Communities, Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse Analysis, Inmigrant Children Development, and Educational Issues Affecting Language and Culture Minority Students.

Emre Guvendir

Laila Hualpa

Laila Hualpa came to UCLA in 2005 after teaching EFL/ESL in Argentina and in Chicago. She holds a BA in English Language and Linguistics from Argentina, and an MA in Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Her main areas of interest are everyday interaction, and political and media discourse. Within these last two areas, she studies political speeches, advertising in political campaigns, and news interviews between journalists and public figures.

Amy Hubbard

*University of California, Los Angeles, *Doctoral student, Applied Linguistics and TESL; Pre-doctoral Trainee, Center for Culture, Brain and Development.

*The Pennsylvania State University*, M.A., Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL).

*Washington and Lee University*, B.A., East Asian Studies.

With co-mentors John H. Schumann in Applied Linguistics and Mirella Dapretto in Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, I am undertaking a program of research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate neural areas underlying the integration of auditory and visual cues during speech perception. In particular, I am examining how the brain integrates beat gesture and speech during face-to-face communication in native English-speaking adults, children, and children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). With collaborator Daniel E.

Callan at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) in Kyoto, I am currently examining how Japanese-English bilinguals of different proficiency levels integrate visual and auditory cues during English speech perception. By studying how the brain processes language and speech, I hope that my work will contribute to theories of how the brain acquires and processes first and second languages, language teaching practices, and speech therapy techniques for a variety of language and communication disorders (such as those characterizing ASD).

Yasuhiro Imao

Armine Javadyan

Anna D. Joaquin

Anna Dina L. Joaquin came to UCLA after teaching EFL/ESL for several years. She holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a Master's from UCLA in Applied Linguistics and TESL. She began her doctoral studies here at UCLA in 2005. Her primary interests include the neurobiological underpinnings of interaction, as well as Conversation Analysis.

Rita Kahn

Jeanne Katzma

Hye Ri 'Stephanie' Kim

Stephanie's research interests include Conversation Analysis of ordinary conversations and institutional talk, prosody in conversation, interaction and grammar, and second/foreign language teaching and learning. She received her BA in English Applied Linguistics and English Language & Literature from Kyung Hee University (Korea) and MA in Applied Linguistics and TESL from UCLA.

So Yeon Kim

Chris Koenig

Satomi Kuroshima

Jin Hee Lee

Ni Eng Lim

Hsin-Min Liu

Zsuzsa Londe

Lauren Mason

Andrea Wong Mates

Lisa Mikesell

Hoky Min

Innhwa Park

Jae-Eun Park

Yujong Park

BA, MA : Seoul National University, English Education department.

Research interests: Conversation analysis, non-native discourse, quoted speech

Elisa Pigeron

Annalise Shin

Youngsoon So

Yoshiko Tomiyama

I-Ni Tsai

Patricia Turner

Viviana Unda

Huan Wang