Graduate Students

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	Pedro Castro Jr (he/him) Email: pedro.castro@csulb.edu Website: Pedro J. Castro, M.A.Ed. Languages: English and Spanish Interest Areas: Educational Technology and Teaching English as a Second Language
	Chuhui Cen (She/Her) Email:Chuhui.Cen01@student.csulb.edu Website: linkedin.com Languages: Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin native), English (Advanced), German (Intermediate) Interest Areas: Language and Culture (Major), Chinese Language, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (Undergraduate major), Language Comparison, Intercultural communication
	Foster Jaelynn Van Deventer Email: foster.lackie@gmail.com Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese Interest Areas: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Language and Culture, Etymology, Historical Linguistics, Phonology
	Esra Eldem (she/her) Email: Esra.Eldem-SA@csulb.edu Website: linkedin.com/in/esra-eldem Languages: Turkish (native), English (proficient), German (intermediate) Interest Areas: Psycholinguistics, Morphological and Syntactic Processing, First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Attrition, Heritage Speakers
	Kirsten Hernandez (she/her/ella) Email: Kirsten.hernandez@student.csulb.edu Website: kirstenhernandez.com Languages: English, American Sign Language Interest Areas: Signed language linguistics, language policy, late first language acquisition
	Langdon Holmes (he/him) Email: Langdon.Holmes@student.csulb.edu Website: langdonholmes.info Languages: English, Spanish (proficient), French (intermediate) Interest Areas: Formulaic Language, Learner Feedback, Dynamic Assessment, Lexical Decision Tasks, Corpus Methods, and Chilean Spanish
	Cyrus Lai (he/him) Email: cyrusjlai@ucla.edu Website: linkedin.com/in/clai/ Languages: English (native), Cantonese (proficient), Mandarin (proficient), Japanese (intermediate) Interest Areas: Bilingualism, Language Variation, Optimality Theory, Translation, Teaching English as a Second Language
	Andriana (Andie) Niederecker (she/they) Email: andie.niederecker-SA@csulb.edu Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriana-niederecker-79a95068/ Languages: English (native), Spanish (advanced), Arabic (beginner) Interest Areas: Language Documentation & Description, Semantics/Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Discourse Analysis, Interdisciplinary Applications
	Max Payne (He/Him/His) Email: Max.Payne01@student.csulb.edu Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian, Irish, Mandarin Chinese Interest Areas: Second language acquisition and instruction, Indo-European linguistics
	Cassandra (Cassie) Pham (she/her) Email: cassandra.pham01@student.csulb.edu Languages: Vietnamese, English, Chinese Mandarin Interest Areas: Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Technology, Productivity, Arts
	Juan Rosas (he/him) Email: Juan.Rosas@student.csulb.edu Website: @Juan_LunaDD Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian Interest Areas: Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Race, Mexican-American communities, Brazil
	Mara Smith Email: msmithtesol@gmail.com Languages: English, Spanish (intermediate) Interest Areas: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
	Michael Valentekovic Email: Michael.Valentekovic01@student.csulb.edu Website: linkedin.com/in/michael-valentekovic Languages: Russian, Croatian, French, German, Spanish Interest Areas: Computational Linguistics, Language and Music, Phonology, Phonetics, Language Processing