Romy Ghanem Author

Romy Ghanem is Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, second language pronunciation, applied phonology, World Englishes and language structure.

Okim Kang is Associate Professor, TESL and Applied Linguistics, and Director of the Applied Linguistics Lab at Northern Arizona University. Her research specialties are L2 pronunciation, oral proficiency assessment, language attitudes and speech perception and production.

Maria Kostromitina is a PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include the intersection of second language pragmatics and phonology, World Englishes in the assessment contexts, and corpus linguistics.