Professor Jane Zuengler

Jane Zuengler
Professor of English
6103 Helen C. White
600 North Park Street
Madison, WI, 53706
Office: (608) 263-3808
Fax: (608) 263-3709
zuengler@wisc.edu

Welcome to my website. I’m a Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I conduct research and teach courses in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition to PhD, MA, and undergraduate students. My particular research interest is in interactions in which some or all of the participants are not native speakers of English. This interest has led me toward research on classroom discourse, considerations of variation in World Englishes, and more generally, of critical perspectives on language use. Before I completed my doctorate, I was an EFL and ESL teacher—-in Germany, Kenya, and New York City. I think that growing up in a small town (population 396) in which everyone knew and/or was related to each other spurred my desire to travel, experience different cultures, and be endlessly fascinated with how people learn and use additional languages.