CV
PhD Student
Department of Linguistics
University of California Davis
255 Kerr Hall, One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
antdiaz@ucdavis.edu
Education
PhD in Linguistics
2026 (expected)
University of California, Davis
M.A. in Linguistics
2020-2024
University of California, Davis
M.S. in Education (TESOL)
2011-2013
California State University Fullerton
B.A. in Japanese
2009-2011
California State University Fullerton
Publications in refereed journals
2024 (in press) “DECOR: Improving Coherence in L2 English Writing with a Novel Benchmark for Coherence Detection, Reasoning, and Rewriting.” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.19650 Association of Computational Linguistics 1(1): 1-10. (with Z. Zhang, Z. Chen, Q. Wu, Q. Kun, E. Voss, & Y. Zhou)
Presentations
2023 “Japanese Learners’ Perception of Stress Contrasts in English Word-class Pairs.” 49th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. (with M. Campos)
2022 “Phonetics Applied: An acoustic analysis of Japanese L2 English.” 48th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. Fukuoka, Japan.
2022 “Phonological Clustering; A different approach to L2 vocabulary instruction.” The 2022 JALT PanSIG Conference. Nagano, Japan.
2020 “Lexical Connections and their Implications for Vocabulary Acquisition.” 11th Annual JALT Oita Language Learning Symposium. Oita, Japan.
2019 “Incorporating an External Online Test into a University Language Program.” 45th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. Nagoya, Japan. (with S. Pattison, T. Eto, P. Johnston, K. Jones, M. Larking, & M. Philips)
2019 “Adding Pronunciation Instruction to the Classroom.” The 2019 JALT PanSIG Conference. Nishinomiya, Japan.
2019 “Towards Improving Japanese EFL Learners’ Pronunciation: The impact of teaching suprasegmentals on intelligibility.” The Asia Pacific Language Journal Symposium. Beppu, Japan.
Teaching Experience
2024 Associate Instructor in Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Davis.
2020-2021 & 2023-2024 Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis.
2021-2023 English Lecturer, School of International Liberal Arts, Miyazaki International University, Miyazaki, Japan.
2015-2020 English Lecturer, Center for Language Education, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan.
2014-2015 Assistant Language Teacher, JET Programme, Sasebo Board of Education, Sasebo, Japan.
2013 ESL Instructor, UCLA Extension Intensive English Program, Los Angeles, CA
2011-2014 ESL Instructor, ESL Institute LA, Torrance, CA
Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships
2024 College of Letters and Science Dean’s Summer Fellowship, The University of California, Davis
2023 Michales Student Living Scholarship, The Michaels Organization
2023 Selected Paper for 2022 JALT National Conference, The Japan Association for Language Teaching