Professor Shawn Loewen
Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Second Language Studies
Michigan State University, USA
Shawn Loewen is Professor in Second Language Studies (SLS), TESOL, and Applied Linguistics at Michigan State University. He currently serves as the director of the SLS doctoral program. His research interests include the researcher-practitioner relationship, instructed second language acquisition, classroom interaction, and mobile-assisted language learning. His publications include a 2024 co-authored textbook entitled, A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning (with Sato). The third edition of his book, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition, will appear in early 2025. He has two additional co-authored books, Key Concepts in Second Language Acquisition (with Reinders, 2009), and An A-Z of Applied Linguistics Research Methods (with Plonsky, 2016). His co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (with Sato) appeared in 2017. He has also published numerous articles in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, ELT Journal, and Language Teaching Research. He is the associate editor of The Modern Language Journal.
Professor Anne Pomerantz
Educational Linguistics Division
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Anne Pomerantz is an applied linguist, language instructor, and teacher educator. She is an expert in the teaching and learning of new languages in classroom and community contexts. At Penn GSE, Dr. Pomerantz directs the Ed.D. specialization in Educational Linguistics and teaches courses on language pedagogy, intercultural communication, and discourse analysis. She works closely with the Penn Language Center to support the dynamic and diverse education community on the Penn campus, including co-convening the annual Penn Language Educators Symposium. Skilled in community-engaged teaching, Dr. Pomerantz mentors university students who work as language educators and ethnographers in immigrant-serving organizations and has developed several academically based service-learning courses.