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I am a professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, where I direct the MA Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics. I am also a core faculty member in the Second Language Studies Program. My main area of research is second language (L2) writing. I am particularly interested in the various research methods and measures used in studying L2 writing as well as the interface between the fields of L2 writing and second language acquisition. More recently, I have been working on analyses of published research articles.
I am the past co-editor of TESOL Quarterly with my colleague, Peter De Costa, and a consulting editor for Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. I am the past associate editor of the Modern Language Journal and have been a member-at-large for the American Association for Applied Linguistics.
I have been a visiting instructor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto and Teachers College, Columbia University. I have taught ESL at MSU, UCLA, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Graduate School in Beijing, and Philadelphia Community College.
I have absolutely no hobbies, but when I am not working, you can find me cooking, watching movies, reading novels, exercising, walking, or biking. I am obsessed with bike trails and hope to cross more off my bucket list. (Check out Ohio for some darn good trails.) I will travel anywhere and have to been to 48 states. If you are from Hawaii or Alabama, I’d love an invitation to give a talk there.
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Charlene Polio
polio@msu.edu
Michigan State University
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