…Dana is an English Education major who is performing research with Professor Susan Wood on the writing skills of students who are learning English as a second language.

Dana Loy

2005-06 Alpha Delta Kappa Women in Education Award

A senior from Western High School in Davie, Florida, Dana is an English Education major who is performing research with Professor Susan Wood on the writing skills of students who are learning English as a second language. Dana is studying the various methods for assessing the progress of these students in writing, and the effects of each of these methods on how quickly students progress with their writing skills. Her goal is to identify those methods that encourage the most rapid improvement. Dana’s research will be presented in an Honors Thesis entitled An Investigation in Second Language Acquisition.

Dana is the recipient of the 2005-2006 Alpha Delta Kappa Women in Education Award.   In addition to her academic work, she currently serves as a telecounselor at the FSU Office of Admissions. She has also volunteered with the America Reads! program and has served as a Mock Interview Mentor at the FSU Career Center.