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Steven

Ross

Professor

Discourse Analyses Of Oral Proficiency Interviews, Language Attrition, Growth Modeling

Units: 

Second Language Acquisition, CASL

Degree(s): 

PhD, Second Language Acquisition, University of Hawai'i Manoa

Contact: 

sross@umd.edu

301-405-4246

3215 Jimenez Hall

Role(s): 

Alumni

About: 

Over 25 years, Steven Ross taught research methodology and language assessment courses in Japan, Australia, Mexico, and the USA. Areas of recent research include discourse analyses of oral proficiency interviews, the influence of metalinguistic knowledge on proficiency growth, language attrition, and modeling proficiency growth over time. Prof. Ross served on the editorial boards of the TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly and served as an associate editor of Language Learning from 2011 to 2016. His research articles have appeared in the JALT Journal, System, RELC Journal, IRAL, Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication, TESOL Quarterly, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Prospect, Language Learning, Language Testing, The International Journal of Testing, The Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics and Modern Language Journal, as well as in a number of edited books on second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and language testing