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Angela George is a Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics at the SLLLC.

George investigates how second language and heritage language learners of Spanish develop sociolinguistic competence across online, classroom, and study-abroad contexts, drawing on sociolinguistics, phonology/phonetics, and pragmatics. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and one co-edited book titled Online Language Teaching in Diverse Contexts. For more information on her research, view her profile.

Neha Bhatia

Neha Bhatia speaks fluent Punjabi, and can read, speak and write in Hindi, English and French. Neha received a B.A. degree in English literature from University of Delhi M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in French and Francophone Studies as well as an M.A. from Université de Perpignan. She is currently examining Indo-European film production culture through a Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Charles Tepperman (Communication, Media and Film) and Dr. Devika Vijayan (School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures).

Dušan Nikolic

Dušan Nikolić completed a BA and MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Niš. He is currently completing a PhD in Linguistics under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Winters. Dušan's academic and research areas are Phonetics and Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, and Sociolinguistics. His PhD project is structured around the perception of prosody. The goal of his project is to explore whether the perception of prosodic elements can be efficiently modelled to emulate listeners' behaviour when processing prosodic constituents.