Dr. Monica G. Ghosh, formerly Monica Richards, received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University, where her research focused on predicting the differential intelligibility and comprehensibility effects of L2 English word stress errors for L1 and L2 listeners. As postdoc, she helped set up the English Speaking Consultation program at Iowa State University’s Center for Communication Excellence and authored its "English Speaking Consultant Training Manual.” She currently serves as lecturer for the ESL Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has taught multiple international teaching assistant (ITA) courses, leads the program’s ITA/Pronunciation Rubrics & Objectives Committee, and regularly contributes to the ITA curriculum. Monica has also taught and made curriculum contributions to the Illinois ESL Program's undergraduate writing, graduate business writing, and graduate academic writing courses.