Gail Riley

Foreign Language Pedagogy Project Leader
Department of Language and Foreign Studies

• Professor Riley joined LFS in July 1997 as Coordinator of Foreign Language Pedagogy. She received her PhD in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with special certification in second language acquisition and teacher education. Recipient of the Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for doctoral dissertation research in Foreign Language Education from the American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages and the Modern Language Journal, her research focuses on second language reading development and assessment, and content-based language learning. She has published articles in scholarly journals such as the Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Language Testing.

• Degrees

  PhD, University of Illinois