Who We Are
Our teaching staff includes full-time faculty and administrators, affiliated faculty, and graduate student instructors. All of our staff have graduate level training in linguistics, TESOL, and/or speech-language pathology. We look forward to working with you.
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English Language Programs Full-Time Staff
Julia Moore, PhD
Senior Director, English Language Programs
Phone: 847-491-5776Email: jmm@northwestern.eduAutumn D. Bryant is a Speech-Language Pathologist in English Language Programs who specializes in helping multilingual students communicate more clearly and confidently in English. She especially enjoys working with students on pronunciation, listening, and the speech differences that can make communication challenging across languages. Autumn leads ELP’s LING 482 individual instruction program, trains graduate course instructors in LING 489: Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching, and oversees development of web tools like Attune®, ELP’s auditory discrimination software, and Hear-A-Glyph©, a language imaging display. She is also able to support English language learners who may have an existing or undiagnosed speech or language disorder. She holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as an MS in Health Communication from Northwestern University. Outside of work, Autumn enjoys learning Italian and watching Marvel movies. Courses: Linguistics 482, Linguistics 489, ELP Foundations (TGS 509).
Mark Temenak is a Speech-Language Pathologist in English Language Programs. He has a BA in History and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a BS in Speech Language Pathology and Deaf Education from Utah State University, and a MS in Speech Language Pathology from Northwestern University. In addition to his experience as a linguist and ESL/EFL instructor in the USA and abroad, his SLP experience spans many different environments supporting individuals with various communication needs. Mark especially enjoys working with multilingual/cultural students and learning more about language/cultural differences through pronunciation, vocabulary, and pragmatics. Mark provides English language support through individual instruction in Linguistics 482 and can diagnose communication disorders and support individuals with communication disorders. Courses: Ling 482Tami Wysocki is a Language Pedagogy Specialist in The Graduate School and an Instructor in English Language Programs. Her areas of interest include articulatory and acoustic phonetics with a focus on the sounds of the world’s languages, the Georgian language, using improv with second/other language learners, and use of AI in language learning. Among the courses she teaches are Pronunciation, Academic Presentations, Improv for English Communication, and Integrated Academic Skills. Courses: Linguistics 380, Linguistics 482, Linguistics 480, ELP Foundations (TGS 509). English Language Programs Affiliated Instructors
Anna is an affiliate instructor in English Language Programs with a master's degree in linguistics from Northwestern University. She oversees our Supported Online Speech and Language Training courses (LING 483), and is an instructor for LING 482 and our Instruction and Practice small groups. Her recent research areas of interest are rhythm and intonation in speech perception and production as well as interactions between language and music. While working towards her bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon she completed the Second Language Acquisition Teaching (SLAT) certification and was a tutor and conversation partner for two years at the University’s American English Institute. She enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and rock climbing, playing piano, and acquiring as many plants as possible.Dorina is a speech, language, and hearing scientist and data analyst specializing in quantitative and computational projects. She has technical expertise in statistical modeling, data visualization and application building and domain expertise in cognitive psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, acoustics and hearing science. Her research interests revolve around understanding and modelling speech processing in realistic environments, degraded by various sources pertinent to the environment, talker and listener. She has been teaching in English Language Programs since Fall 2022.Emma is a PhD Candidate in the Linguistics Department. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego and grew up speaking both English and Japanese. As a sociophonetician, she is interested in how variation in speech sounds conveys social meaning and how speakers convey social identities through language variation. Her dissertation investigates how minority community members relate to local identity and produce local dialect features through Chicago Japanese Americans’ production of Chicago accent features. In her free time, Emma enjoys knitting, sewing, hiking, and visiting Chicago-area cafes.Graduate Student Interns
Jiyoon is a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University, with bachelor's degrees in Linguistics and Psychology. Her research examines reading and language development and disorders, with a focus on improving assessment and screening tools for language and reading difficulties. Jiyoon is a native speaker of Korean and also speaks intermediate German.
