People


James P. Lantolf
LRC Co-director
jpl7@psu.edu
Karen E. Johnson
LRC Co-Director
kej1@psu.edu
Gabriela Appel
Associate Director
gxa9@psu.edu
Arlo J. Bensinger
Technology Coordinator
ajb102@psu.edu
Vickie Lucas
Staff Assistant
vnl2@psu.edu

Project Directors:

Victoria Hasko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Professor Hasko is Co-director of the project on "Figurative Language, Conceptual Fluency, and L2 Proficiency".

Celeste Kinginger is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Kinginger directed the project Language Development in Study Abroad in previous CALPER cycles and is currently Co-director of the Language Socialization in Homestay project.
Xiaofei Lu is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Lu is Co-director of the Learner Corpus project and the Graphic Online Language Diagnostic.
Michael McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Professor McCarthy directed the Learner Corpus project and is project consultant for Graphic Online Language Diagnostic.
Junko Mori is Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Mori directed the project on "Learning through Listening towards Advanced Japanese".
Matthew Poehner is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Poehner is director of the "Dynamic Assessment" project.
Susan G. Strauss is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Strauss directs the CALPER Korean project.
Dali Tan is the Director of Landon-in-China, a summer study abroad program for secondary school students. She is the Co-director of CALPER's project on Language Socialization in Homestay.
Hongyin Tao is Professor of Chinese language and linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Professor Tao directs the project on Video Materials for Chinese Listening Comprehension.
Xuehua Xiang is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is director of a project that will develop modules for blended learning environments for teachers of Chinese . Professor Xiang joined CALPER in 2010.

Graduate Assistants:

Haiyang Ai
Larysa Bobrova
Edie Furniss
Jiyun Kim
Xian Zhang

Previous CALPER Funding Cycles:

Carolina Amador Moreno
Julie A. Belz
Dorothy H. Evensen
Jane Evison
Joan Kelly Hall
Ofra Inbar
Aneta Pavlenko
Jonathon Reinhardt
Elana Shohamy
Steven L. Thorne
Nina Vyatkina