Cindy Kilpatrick

Hi all - I hope you are ready for an informative and hopefully fun semester! To get us started, let's make sure that we know one another. I'm Cindy, the professor, and I'm now starting my 2nd semester at UT Arlington. I've been an ESL/EFL teacher for many years, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea; in Dallas, Texas (at Brookhaven Community College), in El Paso, Texas (at UT El Paso and at El Paso Community College), and in San Diego, California (for graduate students at UCSD). I love teaching English, and I hope that you (grow to) love it too!

I did my PhD at the University of California, San Diego, completing my dissertation there last summer. My research focused on the logical problem of learning a subset in L2 phonotactics, and dealt with Spanish speakers learning new final consonant patterns in English, and English speakers learning new glide-vowel sequences in Spanish. This research continues to lead into new projects, and I'm also in the process of writing up parts of my dissertation for publication.

Even though I just moved from California, I'm a Texas girl at heart. I grew up in Mesquite, over on the other side of Dallas, and my parents and sisters still live in the metroplex. So this area has been home for me for about as long as I can remember. You'll probably hear my Texas accent peaking through quite regularly, if you haven't already.

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