Suzanne Freynik

Dr. Suzanne Freynik earned her PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015. She has an MA in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina, and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Arabic from Florida State University. She has previously taught academic writing and culture courses in American University’s English Language and Training Academy, served as a language program evaluation consultant for the Middle East Institute, worked as a research analyst at the Foreign Service Institute’s School of Language Studies, and collaborated with research teams on technology-mediated language learning projects at University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Study of Language. Her research interests include the effects of proficiency and typological distance on second language sentence processing, task-based language teaching in distance- and blended-learning contexts, and leveraging technology to promote interaction in the language classroom.