Melanie C. González, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor of ESL and Literacy in both the Secondary and Higher Education Department and the English Department at Salem State University. She is also the Coordinator of Graduate TESOL Programs. Professor González earned her Ph.D. in TESOL from the University of Central Florida. She has taught in a variety of English as a Second Language-related (ESL) contexts including a university-based intensive English program, English for academic purposes composition courses, community English classes, and middle school ESL prior to joining the Salem State University community. Her research interests center on second language vocabulary acquisition, second language composition, and corpus linguistics.