Education

National University of Singapore ('24-present)

PhD Candidate, English Language and Linguistics

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Science

    • Department of English Linguistics and Theatre Studies

    • Bilingualism and Language Processing Lab

    • Supervisor: Dr. Aine Ito

    • Research Interests: English orthography, English graphophonemics, English reading acquisition, English phonics and reading instruction, bilingualism, corpus linguistics

  • Modules included: Phonetics and Phonology, Advanced Psycholinguistics

University of Massachusetts Boston ('21-'24)

MA Applied Linguistics, English Foreign Language Instruction Concentration (GPA 4.0)

  • Modules included: Theories and Principles of Language Teaching, Methods and Materials in Foreign Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics and Phonemics, Usage-based Linguistic Analysis, Sociolinguistics

  • Field Experience Project: Researched the graphophonemic gaps in Kindergarten-Fifth Grade students at The Adelson School

  • Master Thesis: Frequency Distribution of Graphemic-phonemic
    Correspondences of Vowels in English Children's Literature

    • Thesis Advisors:

      • Dr. Charles Meyer, Thesis Chair

      • Dr. George Mikros, Thesis Committee Member

Goucher College ('07-'11)

BA Business Management magna cum laude

Mount Saint Charles Academy ('01-'07)

High School Diploma National Honor Society

Research experience


National University of Singapore (Jan. '25 - present)

Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies,
Bilingualism and Language Processing Lab

  • Designing stimuli and administering eye-tracking tests for an experiment studying the intersection between working memory and language prediction

University of Maryland, College Park (Jun. '23 - Aug. '23)

Hearing and Speech Sciences Department,
Language Development and Perception Lab

  • Designed preferential looking experiment on LookIt to study linguistic masking in two-year-olds

Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology,

Neural Tuning of Reading

  • Attained Level II MRI safety certification from Maryland Neuroimaging Center

  • Assisted in MRI scans of participants reading lists of real and pseudowords

  • Invigilated Woodcock and CTOPP assessments to participants

Employment

The Adelson School (Jul. '21 - Jul '24)

Lower School Educational Specialist

  • Alongside Director of Academics, invigilated San Diego Quick and Core Phonics Assessments, to inform phonics intervention and curriculum development

  • Developed Third Grade phonics/spelling intervention resulting in 10% increase in learner performance on Scholastic Development Word Knowledge Inventory

  • Founded Lower School Public Speaking Club

  • Founded two Lower School phonics clubs (Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten); utilized modified U.K. National Curriculum Letters and Sounds

Challenger School (Apr. '15 - Jun. '21)

Elementary Teacher

  • Kindergarten classes (50/50 split of L1 and L2 learners)

    • National Iowa Assessments: 90th percentile (2015 - 2019), 98th percentile (2018-2019)

  • As a reading literacy coach, guided first graders with reading delays to advance from 430L to 610L; guided late enrollment preschoolers to advance from limited graphophonemic awareness to Scholastic reading level B

  • Assisted Desert Hills Campus in opening a new elementary wing

Quantum College (Oct. '19 - Nov. '19)

ESL Teacher

  • In one-to-one lessons, trained recent Chinese immigrants (ages 3-6) in interactional speaking for admissions interviews at private Vancouver elementary schools

  • Developed intensive phonics course proposal for young, Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking L2 learners (ages 4-6)

Apollo English (Jun. '18 - Aug. '18)

Summer Academy EFL Instructor

Assisted Director of Studies in opening new Tan Mai campus; invigilated placement exams for approximately 200 learners and assigned them to leveled classes determined by age and language competency

Qualifications

  • Cambridge DELTA (2020)

    • Module 1: Pass with Distinction

    • Module 2: Pass with Merit

  • Cambridge CELTA (2017)

    • Pass A

Professional associations

  • American Association for Applied Linguistics

  • Linguistic Society of America

  • International Literacy Association

  • Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics

Awards

  • Eagle Scout (2006), Boy Scouts of America