She received her Ph.D in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa and has graduate degrees in English as a Second Language and Spanish Linguistics. For her dissertation, she investigated how students in a flipped course constructed meaning from their out-of-class resources and explored their strategy use and learning paths. This led to the development of a training model for effective learning in flipped Spanish language courses. Jen is interested in TA training, the role of metacognition in language teaching and learning, and technology enhanced language learning.