Her current research interests include second and foreign language assessment and task-based language teaching and testing. She is the immediate past President of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) and is currently a member of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners, a standing committee of the TOEFL Board. She co-directs the Second Language Studies Eye-tracking Lab and is co-directing (with Susan Gass) an 800K grant from the Department of Defense on language proficiency testing at Michigan State University. She is the 2012 recipient of the "TESOL Award for Distinguished Research" and a 2008 recipient (with Senta Goertler) of the CALICO Journal's "Outstanding Article Award." div class="subsection"> November 1