Education

Ph.D. Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language, Iowa State University

B.A. German/Political Science/History, Duke University

Shannon Sauro is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She is a core faculty member for the M.A. program in Teaching English as a Second Language and the Ph.D. program in Culture, Literacy and Language. She teaches courses in second language acquisition (SLA), computer-assisted language learning (CALL), advanced second language literacy, linguistics for educators, and sheltered instruction for K-6 educators.

Her areas of research include computer-mediated corrective feedback, task-based language teaching in online environments, and L2 performance in text-chat and spoken discourse.