LSA Students

	Major:	Applied Linguistics
	Interests:	creole languages, optimality theory & its interaction with behaviorism
	About me:	from New Orleans, speak some German, Spanish
Lou Coyne	Email:	sansjune@yahoo.com
	Major:	TESOL
	Interests:	Sign language, TESOL
Linka G. Crosby	Email:	linkacrosby@hotmail.com
	Major:	Applied Linguistics
	Interests:	Artic/circumpolar languages, language typology, historical linguistics, phonology, phonetics
Andy Edelen	Email:	ling.geek@yahoo.com
	Major:	TESOL
	Interests:	1) Teaching strategies of English pronunciation to students whose first language is not English 2) Konglish (Korean + English) => why Konglish exists
	About me:	Interests: playing basketball, watching movies
Heewon Park	Email:	bakijjang@hotmail.com
	Major:	Applied Linguistics
	Interests:	computational linguistics, Japanese language & linguistics, syntax, phonology, creoles
Charese Smiley	Email:	csmiley@siu.edu
	Major:	Applied Linguistics/ English (Irish Studies)
	Interests:	Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics of Gaelic languages
	About me:	love to read (things other than textbooks!) 2 children - "I am the 'queen' of my all-male household!" It's good to be the "queen"! Married for 5 years to a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my educational goals (luckily!)
Kamden Summers	Email:	ksummers@siu.edu
	Major:	Applied Linguistics
	Interests:	Second Language Acquisition
	About me:	I love driving motorcycles! I am from Okinawa, Japan.
Hideko Teruya	Email:	hideko@siu.edu