India Plough

ploughi@msu.edu

FacultySecond Language Studies

Biography

Dr. India Plough is Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH). She also serves as director of the Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum Program and teaches in the Language and Culture Pathway of the RCAH. Her research interests include second language teaching, learning, and assessment as well as test development and validation. Using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, she investigates the role of interactional competence and nonverbal behavior in defining the second language speaking construct.