Congratulations Annika Wallander for being named a recipient of the highly selective Mango Languages Dissertation Award. These awards fund cutting-edge dissertation projects at the intersection of second language acquisition and educational technology. The selection committee’s rationale for why Annika’s study stood out amongst a strong pool of applicants beautifully summarizes its merits:

Our selection committee read your dissertation proposal on visual pronunciation feedback for Spanish with great interest, and we were impressed by the rigor of the study and its implications for second language learning in technology-mediated environments. We were especially impressed to see a dissertation built around a working pronunciation-feedback app of your own design. It’s wonderful to see a practical, learner-facing tool emerge from dissertation research.

Well done and well deserved, Annika!