Lucy Pickering, Assistant Professor, joined the department in 2005. Previously, she taught in the applied linguistics programs at the University of Alabama and Georgetown University. Originally from the UK, she has also taught ESL/EFL in England, Hungary and the United States where she worked extensively with international teaching assistants. She received her PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Florida in 1999. Dr. Pickering's research program focuses on the computer-based analysis of prosodic systems including instrumental analysis of suprasegmental features such as stress and intonation. She is interested in exploring the pedagogical applications of speech analysis to ESL pedagogy and second language development; for example, the investigation of how learners develop competence in relation to prosody and how this can affect the co-operative achievement of comprehensibility between discourse participants. She is on the editorial board for TESOL Quarterly and her work has been published in TESOL Quarterly, System, World Englishes, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages and ELT journal among others.