Dr. Amanda Huensch is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of World Languages at the University of South Florida, where she teaches courses in second language acquisition, pronunciation pedagogy, and applied linguistics. Her research examines second language speech development in and outside of the classroom, including the relationship between perception and production, pronunciation attitudes of classroom foreign language learners, and fluency development during study abroad. Her most recent work has been published in the Journal of Phonetics, the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, and Applied Psycholinguistics. She received her PhD in Linguistics and Second Language Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.