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Suzanne Carla Franks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Illinois University. Her research focuses on applied linguistics, particularly in the areas of second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, and language teaching methods. She is particularly interested in how phonetics and phonology inform the teaching of language pronunciation. Her work involves analyzing the interface between linguistics and language pedagogy, emphasizing the relationship between fluency and measurable phenomena such as speech rate, pausing, and word boundary features. Dr. Franks holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Georgia (2014) and an MA in TESL from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1991).
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