HI, I’M KRIS.
“Love Language” Linguist
Investigating Multilingualism in Romantic Relationships
Ph.D. Candidate of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Teaching Assistant of LING 5281: Research Methods at Georgetown University.
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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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.
I'm thrilled to announce that my paper presentation has been accepted for the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2025 Conference in Denver, CO, as part of the Invited Colloquium, "Investment in language learning and teaching: The negotiation of identity, capital, and ideology," organized by Conveners Professor Ron Darvin and Professor Bonny Norton! 🎉