We’re very glad to announce Crow researcher Dr. Ge Lan has successfully defended his dissertation, Noun Phrase Complexity, Academic Level, and First Language Background in Academic Writing. Dr. Lan’s committee was chaired by April Ginther and included Elaine Francis and Crowbirds Shelley Staples and Bradley Dilger.
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[…] Ge Lan, PhD, English (Second Language Studies), Purdue […]
[…] While completing his PhD in second language studies at Purdue University, Dr. Lan played a key role in the development of Crow’s corpus, working on corpus cleaning and processing for Purdue’s data. Now, Dr. Ge Lan is building his own corpus using discipline-specific student writing from City University of Hong Kong. With already 1,000 student-consent forms signed, Ge is excited to begin the data collection and cleaning process. […]