I`m Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Purdue University in lovely Fort Wayne. I only recently discovered the world of Stack Exchange. I`ll be hanging out in the English Language & Usage and English Language Learners communities and helping where I can! Explaining the English language and its grammar to people I`ve never talked to before and who may have no experience with terminology from linguistics or grammar (or who use different terminology than I do) will, I hope, help me become better at what I do in the classroom with my students. Another reason I`m here is that I`m interested in how English Language Learners are using this site, how useful they find it (or don`t find it), and what other outside-school resources they use. ©