In her first year in the PhD program, Irene recently attended SLRF (Second Language Research Forum) and gave a presentation on "Does collaborative writing enhance individual writing? An empirical study of Spanish L2ers". Her co-presenter was Carla Consolini, PhD student at the University of Oregon.
Irene was also part of a presentation with a research group from Ohio University, with Dr. Hiroyuki Oshita, An Nguyen, Carla Consolini, & Nasir Alqahtani. Their presentation was titled "Semantico-syntactic variations in transitive predicates expressing locational change: Implications for native grammar and L2 research".