HI, I’M KRIS.
“Love Languaging” Linguist
Investigating Multilingualism in Romantic Relationships
Ph.D. Candidate of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Instructor & Program Coordinator of Research-based Undergraduate Linguistics Experience (RULE)
Lecturer of the Graduate Professionalization Seminar for the Master of Science in Curriculum & Instruction within the College of Education at Purdue University.
Teacher of language (& more!)—online 💻, in the U.S. 🇺🇸, and abroad 🇯🇵🇪🇸.
Researcher of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), intercultural discourse analysis, L2 learning, L2 pragmatics, L2 anxiety, online learning, (intercultural) apologies, and multilingual communication within romantic relationships.
Former President of the Georgetown Linguistics Student Association (2022-2024).
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FOLLOW MY DISSERTATION RESEARCH
AS FEATURED ON…
AS FEATURED ON @GULingMasters, the official Instagram for the Linguistics Department @GeorgetownUniversity | Happy "Love Languages" Day! 💕
AS FEATURED ON the HAPA英会話「eikaiwa」Premium Course Podcast！Episode: "How to Learn English," recorded in October 2020 and available from October through December 2020.
AS FEATURED ON Hapa 英会話「eikaiwa」！• Hapa English Conversation with Jun Senesac on: ネイティブ英語講師の談話「日本人特有の英表現」Discourse of Native English Instructors:" English Expressions Peculiar to Japanese People" • 160K+ views • Streamed live on June 26, 2020.
Last Friday, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! 🎉💕📲 This post contains 6 BIG UPDATES, including the defense, next steps, an award nomination, and more. The video of my 19-minute, captioned Dissertation Defense presentation is included inside!