Members

David Balmaceda M. is a former Fulbright scholar and currently an Applied Linguistics doctoral candidate, with a graduate certificate in Higher Education in the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and a MA in Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures in Spanish from Southern Illinois University. His research interests include Spanish language acquisition, socio-psychological factors in second language enrollment at the undergraduate level—particularly, beliefs, attitudes, and gender—retention in undergraduate language programs, and university language program development.

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Professor Cindy Brantmeier (PhD Indiana University) is the principal investigator in the Language Research Laboratory. Her edited and co-edited book and volumes include Revisiting the MLA Report on Reconfiguring Foreign Language Programs: The Role of Reading (Co-edited with D. Pulido, 2010), Crossing Languages and Research Methods: Analyses of Adult Foreign Language Reading (Ed., 2009), Reading in languages other than English (Co-edited with K. Koda, 2009), and Adult foreign language reading: Theory, research and implications (Ed., 2004). Her work has appeared in journals such as The Modern Language Journal, System, Foreign Language Annals, Reading in a Foreign Language, among others. She has given invited presentations of her research in Argentina, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Republic of Georgia, The Netherlands, Oxford (UK), and at universities in the USA.

Haley Dolosic is the Program Manager of English Language Programs in University College at Washington University in St. Louis.  Her dissertation is: Dolosic, H. (2018). Intersecting Variables of Second and Foreign Language Reading: Self-assessment and Comprehension with Adolescents and Adults Across Languages (Doctoral dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis). She defended her dissertation in Fall 2018 and graduated in Spring 2019.

Publications

• Dolosic, H., Brantmeier, C., Strube, M., & Hogrebe M. (2016). Living Language: Self-Assessment, Oral Production, and Domestic Immersion. Foreign Language Annals, 49 (2), 302-316.

Articles in Progress

• Dolosic. H., Fang, W.C., Brantmeier, C., Strube, M. & Gao, N. Preparing Chinese Scholars for Life Abroad: Listening, Speaking, and Self-Assessment.
• Brantmeier, C., Dolosic, H. & Balmaceda, D. Relationships Among Gender, L2 Vocabulary Knowledge, L2 Grammar Knowledge, and L2 Reading Performance.

Dolosic Conference Presentations

• Dolosic, H. & Brantmeier, C. (2017) Relationships Among Gender, L2 Vocabulary Knowledge, L2 Grammar Knowledge, and L2 Reading Performance. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Chicago, IL. 6 July 2017.
• Dolosic, H., Brantmeier, C., Strube, M., & Hogrebe M. (2016). An Examination of Informal Immersion Contexts with Adolescents: Self-Esteem, Self-Consciousness, Self-Assessment, & Oral Production. American Association for Applied Linguistics. Orlando, FL. 12 April 2016.
• Dolosic, H., Fang, W.C., Brantmeier, C., & Strube, M (2016). Individuals in the Chinese EFL Classroom: The Relationships between Self-Assessment, Affect, Speaking, and Listening. Second Language Research Forum. New York, NY. 22 September 2016.

Dr. Yanming Gao is currently Associate Professor and Vice Dean of School of Overseas Education, Northeast Normal University, China. She is involved in an intensive training program of the Center of Ministry of Education for Studying Overseas (founded and administered by China’s Scholarship Council) offered to the pre-departure visiting scholars to English speaking countries. Her research centers on Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy. She is particularly interested in English teaching and learning strategies, especially in reading and listening. In 2012, Dr. Gao was a visiting scholar in the Language Research Lab with Dr. Cindy Brantmeier at Washington University. Together they will be conducting experiments that examine metacognitive strategies and foreign language learning in China.

Dr. Jun and Dr. Brantmeier collaborated with research during his residency at WashU. Fall 2010-Fall 2011, and they continue collaborations at a distance.

Yanjie Li (Phoebe) is a PhD student in the Department of Education with a concentration in Applied Linguistics at Washington University in Saint Louis. She holds a Master of TESL (Teaching English As a Second Language) from Webster University, and a Bachelor of English Language from Qingdao Agricultural University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, L2 reading, L2 writing, L2 assessments, cognitive psychology and Psycho-linguistics. She is currently investigating the effects of working memory on L2 reading.

Huan Liu is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics in Education, Department of Education, Washington University. Huan holds a Master of Education in TESOL and World Language Education from the University of Georgia, and a Bachelor of Arts in Translation Studies from Xi’an International Studies University in China. Her research interests include L2 literacy development, self-assessment of L2 reading and writing abilities, impacts of nonlinguistic variables on second langauge acquisition, and foreign language pedagogy.

Articles in Progress

• Liu, H., & Brantmeier, C. “I know English”: Self-assessment of reading and writing abilities among adolescent Chinese learners of English.
• Liu, H., Brantmeier, C. & Strube, M. EFL Test Preparation in China: The Relationship between Reading Comprehension and Descriptive and Persuasive Writing.
• Liu, H., Brantmeier, C. & Strube, M. Effects of inserted adjuncts on L2 reading comprehension of domain-specific texts with intermediate English language learners.

Conference Presentations

• Liu, H. & Brantmeier, C. (upcoming, July, 2018). (upcoming, July, 2018). Self-Assessment (SA) of Foreign Language (FL) Literacy Abilities among Adolescent Chinese Learners of English. Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Liu, H., Brantmier, C., & Fang, W. C. (July, 2017). The relationship between gender, self-assessment of writing, and subsequent writing performance. Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Liu, H., & Brantmeier, C. (March, 2017). Explaining variance in foreign language (FL) reading with adolescent Chinese readers: FL writing, self-assessment, topic familiarity, morphological awareness and gender. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon, U.S.
• Liu, H., Brantmeier, C., & Strube, M. (September, 2016). Reading-writing connections, levels of instruction and self-assessment with adult EFL learners in China. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, U.S.

Dr. Yu and Dr. Brantmeier collaborated with research during his residency at WashU. Fall 2009-Fall 2010. Dr. Yu and Dr. Brantmeier have published investigations that examine variables involved in foreign language reading in China, including text adjuncts and self-assessment.