Contact Information
2109 LCLB
Office Hours
Fall 2025: TBA
Research Areas
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Program Advisor for French SLATE
Director French Around The Corner (Cercle Francophone)
Co-Director Center of Excellence
Research Interests
- Foreign language education
- Second Language Acquisition
- Computer- and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
- Publicly Engaged Research in SLATE
- Language maintenance and revitalization
- Language justice and (in)security
- Mixed methods for research in SLATE
- Process-oriented research in SLATE
- Complex Dynamic System Theory for research in SLATE
- Oral development in instructional settings and study abroad
- Phonetics and phonology of French
- L2 critical thinking
Research Description
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Education
- Ph.D. Foreign Language and ESL Education - The University of Iowa
- M.A. Foreign Language and ESL Education - The University of Iowa
- M.A. Rhetorics of Arts - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France)
Grants
- $6,000 - LAS Inclusive Excellence (2025). French Around The Corner
- $1,500 – Villa Albertine Foundation (2025). Francophone Film Festival.
- $900 – Spurlock Museum (2025). Francophone Film Festival.
- $10,000 – Villa Albertine Foundation (2025). French in Higher Education: Cercle Francophone & French in the Community.
- $500 – Title VI Faculty Professional Development Award – EU Center (UIUC) (2024).
- $12,000 – Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Grant – LAS (UIUC) (2023).
- $16,532 – LAS COVID-19 Revitalization Fellowship – LAS (UIUC) (2023).
- $1,500 – Intercultural Competence Grant – SLCL (UIUC) (2022).
- $14,000 – Humanities Teaching Release Time Program – Campus Research Board (UIUC) (2020).
- $2,000 – ACTFL Research Priorities Initiative (2019). Smartphones’ Impact on Proficiency and Intercultural Competence in Study Abroad.
Courses Taught
- FR 101: Elementary French I
- FR 102: Elementary French II
- FR 103: Intermediate French I
- FR 104: Intermediate French II
- FR 205: French in Conversation
- FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop
- FR213: French Phonetics and Pronunciation
- FR 215: French In the Community
- FR 313: Worldwide Spoken French
- FR 314: Advanced Grammar and Composition
- FR 337: Contemporary France
- FR 390: Undergraduate Independent Study in French
- FR 485: French for the Profession
- FR 588: Oral Skills in SLATE Research
- FR588: Mixed Methods for SLATE Research
- FR591: Graduate Independent Study in French
- FR599: Dissertation in French SLATE
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, French and Italian
External Links
Recent Publications
- Mroz, A. (2025). Process research screen capture. 2nd edition. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. 2nd edition. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1450.pub2
- Mroz, A., & Gorham, J. (2024). From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Story of an Ordinarily Extraordinary Generation Z L2 Student Abroad. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 36(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v36i1.855
- Mroz, A. (2024). Do Students Carry Their Home in Their Pocket? Influence and Impact of Smartphone Usage on the Attachment or Detachment from Family and Friends During Study Abroad. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 9(1), 100-126. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sar.22018.mro
- Mroz, A., & Gorham, J. (2023). Generation Z Goes Abroad: A Mosaic Approach to L2 Program Evaluation. Second Language Research & Practice, 4(1), 67-87. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/69879
- Mroz, A., & Thrasher, T. (2022). Proficiency Development and Smartphone Usage in Study Abroad: Microgenetic Longitudinal Case Studies of French Learners. Foreign Language Annals, 55(2), 455-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12619
- Mroz, A., & Thrasher, T. (2022). Unfolding of COVID-19 Crisis in a Study-Abroad Program: Voicers of Stakeholders Involved in the Evacuation. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(2), 27-55. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i2.568
- Mroz, A. (2022). Integrating Mobile-Based Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT) to Advance Proficiency and Intelligibility in French. In S. McCrocklin (Ed.), Technological Resources for Second Language Pronunciation Learning and Teaching: Research-based Approaches (pp. 147-169). Lexington.
- Mroz, A. (2020). Aiming for Advanced intelligibility and proficiency using mobile ASR. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 6(1), 12-38. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.18030.mro
- Meritan, C., & Mroz, A. (2019). Impact of self-reflection and awareness-raising on novice French learners’ pronunciation. Foreign Language Annals, 52(4), 798-821. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12429
- Mroz, A. (2018). Seeing how people hear you: French learners experiencing intelligibility through automatic speech recognition. Foreign Language Annals, 51(3), 617-637. https:/doi.org/10.1111/flan.12348
- Mroz, A., & Duval, M. (2018). Parfaire sa prononciation française par le théâtre : la liaison, le « e » caduc et l’intonation sur le devant de la scène. French Review, 91(4), 146-163. https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2018.0244
- Mroz, A. (2015). The development of second language critical thinking in a virtual language learning environment: A process-oriented mixed-method study. CALICO 32(3), 528-553. https:/doi.org/10.1558/cj.v32i3.26386
- Mroz, A. (2014). 21st Century Virtual Language Learning Environments (VLLEs). Language & Linguistics Compass, 8(8), 330-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12089
- Mroz, A. (2012). Négociation et co-construction du sens en FLE lors d’une immersion dans un Environnement Virtuel d’Apprentissage (EVA) : Quid des compétences critiques et technologiques des apprenants en langue étrangère ? The Canadian Modern Language Review, 69(4), 359-392. https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.1275