From the Editors
December 2025 AAALetter
Table of Contents
- AAAL 2025 Membership at a Glance | Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Shuyi Yang, Ava Becker & Elizabeth Lee
- The AAALetter Editorial Team | Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Shuyi Yang, Ava Becker & Elizabeth Lee
AAAL 2025 Membership at a Glance
Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Iowa State University; Shuyi Yang, Johns Hopkins University; Ava Becker, University of Alberta; and Elizabeth Lee, Hankyong National University
AAALetter Editorial Team, AAAL Online Education and Outreach Committee (OEOC)
We hope you enjoy this issue’s infographic, featuring membership data from 2025. You can also download a PDF copy of the infographic to zoom in further.
The AAALetter Editorial Team
Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Iowa State University; Shuyi Yang, Johns Hopkins University; Ava Becker, University of Alberta; and Elizabeth Lee, Hankyong National University
AAALetter Editorial Team, AAAL Online Education and Outreach Committee (OEOC)
Shuyi Yang, Ava Becker, Elizabeth Lee
Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Editor and Subcommittee Chair
Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer is an assistant professor in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program at Iowa State University. Dr. Sonsaat-Hegelheimer’s research interests include L2 pronunciation instruction, materials evaluation and development, and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). She is the co-editor of Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and practice (Wiley Blackwell) with John M. Levis and Tracey M. Derwing. This is Dr. Sonsaat-Hegelheimer’s first issue as the Editor of the AAALetter, and she has served on the newsletter editorial team since March 2022.
Shuyi Yang, Assistant Editor
Shuyi Yang is a lecturer of Chinese at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Yang holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include Chinese as a second language reading, second language reading and writing assessment, Chinese as a second language vocabulary acquisition, and Chinese as a second language pragmatics. She has publications in System, Foreign Language Annals, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Reading in a Foreign Language and has served as a reviewer for Language Learning, Language Testing, Foreign Language Annals, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Reading in a Foreign Language, and Language Assessment Quarterly: An International Journal and is currently an editorial board member for Reading in a Foreign Language. Dr. Yang joined the AAALetter editorial team in April 2023.
Ava Becker, Assistant Editor
Ava Becker is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. Becker holds a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia. In her current projects, she is examining the intersections of plurilingualism, sound as research method, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Her work has appeared in edited volumes and in journals such as Applied Linguistics Review and the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, and the Journal of Language, Identity & Education, where she currently serves on the Editorial Board. Dr. Becker joined the AAALetter editorial team in August 2024.
Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Editor
Elizabeth Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Hankyong National University, South Korea. Dr. Lee holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University, and her research interests include second language writing, language assessment, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and using NLP tools to examine these areas. Her works have appeared in Assessing Writing, Teaching English (South Korea), and the Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. Dr. Lee joined the AAALetter editorial team in November 2025.