Year Admitted: 2024
Bio
Wali Ullah is a master’s student in Applied English Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently teaches English 100 and previously served as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) at UW-Madison. He has also worked as an English lecturer at Kohat University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. His academic interests center on how second language learners process and acquire morphological and syntactic structures, particularly in relation to cross-linguistic influence. He is currently working on research that explores the use of English prepositions by L1 Urdu speakers. He is passionate about connecting linguistic theory with classroom practice to improve English language learning and teaching in multilingual settings.
Research Interests
Second language acquisition, Cross-linguistic influence and transfer, Applied linguistics and language pedagogy