Janalyn A. Miklas
Janalyn A. Miklas
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition
Janalyn Miklas is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics. She is a graduate teaching assistant for linguistic courses. In 2024, she received a Critical Language Scholarship through the U.S. Department of State to complete a full-immersion language learning program in Ankara, Türkiye. She has taught English to speakers of other languages in South Korea and Thailand. She is also an accomplished musician.
Selected Publications
Miklas, J.A. & Kelley, M.C. (2024). Closure duration vs. f0 perturbation as a cue to underlying stops for the American English intervocalic flap. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 54(060005), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001972.
Courses Taught
LING 100 - Human Language
LING 306 - Introduction to Linguistics
LING 331 - Phonetics
LING 521 - Applied Linguistics: TESOL Pedagogy
Education
2022 - M.A. English with a concentration in Linguistics, George Mason University
2020 - B.A. (summa cum laude) Interdisciplinary Studies: TESL and Global Studies, Linguistics, Liberty University
Recent Presentations
Miklas, J.A. & Kelley, M.C. (2025, May). A pilot corpus acoustic analysis on the alveolar tap in Turkish. The 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. https://doi.org/10.13021/MARS/14869.
Miklas, J.A. & Kelley, M.C. (2024, May). Closure duration vs. f0 perturbation as a cue to underlying stops for the American English intervocalic flap. The 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. https://doi.org/10.13021/MARS/14870.
Miklas, J.A. (2024, Feb.). Perfectly Puzzling: Using a mnemonic to teach the present perfect to adult ELLs. TESL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
Miklas, J.A. & Edalatishams, I. (2022, Oct.). Understanding Multilingual Writer's Self-Perceptions of Identity to Inform Writing Center Practices. International Writing Centers Association conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Edalatishams, I., Miklas, J.A., & Bryant, K. (2022, April). Fostering Multilingual Writers’ Identity in the Writing Center: A Study of the ESL Opt-In Program. Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Miklas, J.A. & Nguyen, C.M. (2020, Sept.). Oral Language Development in an Isolating Digital World. International Virtual Conference on Language and Literature Empowering the Future of ELT, Language Center of State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia.
Miklas, J.A. (2020, Jan.). Don’t Forget “S”: A Comparative Study of English and Thai. Network for Undergraduate Research in Virgina conference, Hampton Sydney College, Hampton Sydney, Virginia.
Miklas, J.A. (2018, March). Definitely Distinct or Specifically Similar: A Case Study of Turkish and English. Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia.