Research Interests
Dr. Ala Simonchyk's research interests focus on second language speech processing, experimental phonetics, listening comprehension, and pronunciation instruction. In her dissertation, funded by the Neatrour-Edgerton Dissertation Fellowship and REEI/Mellon Endowment Student Grant-in-Aid of Research, Dr. Simonchyk investigated how the phonological domains of perception, production, lexical encoding, and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies. Her dissertation research has been featured in the journal Language and Speech.
Biography
Dr. Ala Simonchyk obtained her B.A. in Modern Languages from Minsk State Linguistic University (2003), M.A. in TESOL from St. Cloud State University (2010), and her dual Ph.D. in Second Language Studies and Slavic Linguistics from Indiana University (2017).
Dr. Simonchyk has been teaching languages, English and Russian, since 2002. She has been a certified ACTFL OPI rater of Russian since 2013. At the University of Mississippi, Dr. Simonchyk has taught in the Russian program and linguistics courses to graduate and undergraduate students.
Courses Taught
- LIN 200 Introduction to Linguistic Science
- LIN 303 Phonology
- LIN 306 Semantics and Pragmatics
- LIN 399 Psycholinguistics
- LIN 572 Cultural Dimension of Language Education/SLA
- LIN 600 Fundamentals of Applied Linguistics
- LIN 651 Instructed SLA
- LIN 670 Psycholinguistic Research in SLA
- RUSS 111 Intensive Elementary Russian
- RUSS 211 Intensive Elementary Russian
- RUSS 301 Conversation and Composition I
- RUSS 302 Conversation and Composition II
Education
B.A. Modern Languages, Indiana University-Bloomington (2003)
M.A. Slavic Languages, Indiana University-Bloomington (2012)
Ph.D. Slavic Languages, Indiana University-Bloomington (2017)