I direct the Foreign and Second Language Education program area, which includes graduate and undergraduate programs in foreign language and ESL education for certification and for preparation of teachers and curriculum coordinators internationally. I am on the editorial board of the Modern Language Journal. My research areas include sociocultural approaches to strategies-based language learning, models for professional teacher development and teacher resistance to change, and family language maintenance in the diaspora.

Ph.D. Foreign & Second Language Education, 1987, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

M.A. German Language, Literature & Linguistics, 1979,  University of Pittsburgh

TESOL Certification, 1975, Applied Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania Secondary Teaching License, 1974.

B.A.  German Studies; Linguistics Minor (Magna Cum Laude), 1973, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

• Nyikos, M., Daraswang, P, Singhasiri, W, Kotuta, N. Writing task revisions: Thai EFL students learning styles and strategies
• Nyikos, M., Editor for manuscripts and working papers from the 2009 conference, Toward a Research Based Approach to International Teacher Education. Authors include Ken Zeichner, Claire Kramsch, and Walter Parker among others.
• Nyikos, M. Fan, M. Y. (2007). A review of research on vocabulary learning strategies: Focus on learners voice and language proficiency. In A. Cohen and E. Macaro (Eds.), Language learner strategies: 30 years of research and practice (pp.251-273). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Nyikos, M. (2008). Gender in language learning. In Carol Griffiths (Ed.), Lessons from good language learners: Insights for teachers and learners (pp.73-82). Cambridge University Press.

• Invited to lead closing synthesizing discussion for the conference.
• Building and Maintaining a Community-based Language Outreach Program
• Interlangauge: Spaces for questioning bilingual acquisition processes
• Intercultural Engagements in Teaching for Global Citizenship
• Multilayered Interactive Teacher Reflection: Peeling the Onion of Awareness.
• Making Connections, Building Bridges: Early Language Learning of LCTLS in Community Settings
• More Than Metacognition in Pedagogy and Research
• Enhancing Language Learning Through Learner Autonomy in a Global Society: Strategic Approacheshttp://www.squ.edu.om/lanconference/tabid/10862/language/en-US/Default.aspx
• New Role For Less Commonly Taught Languages: Community Advocacy
• Early Learning of Critical Languages, Less Commoly Taught Languages: Issues and Vision for Curricular Change
• Organized bringing the NNELL annual conference to Indiana University School of Education wtih 3 keynote speakers and a childrens Language Camp Around the World. Partnerd with the Center for the Study of Global Change to sponsor this conference.
• Internationalizing Teacher Education Programs: Setting the Research Agenda

• Innovative Pedagogies Initiative: Creative Paradigms for Teaching
• Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund
• StarTalking: Bridges to Children and Community

• Named editor of INTESOL Journal