2025 TALGS Keynote Speaker

Dr. Ekaterina Sudina

Ekaterina Sudina (Ph.D., Northern Arizona University) is Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, College Park. At the core of her research is the exploration of individual differences in second language acquisition from two perspectives: applied psychometrics and methodological synthesis/meta-analysis. Her work has been published in several prominent journals (e.g., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly) as well as edited volumes. She is strongly committed to research ethics and open science practices. In addition to her prior appointment at East Carolina University, she has taught English, French, and Russian in the US and abroad.