Ayşen Tuzcu is a second-year PhD student in the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University. She obtained her BA from the Foreign Language Education Department at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. After completing her BA, she received her MA from the English Language Education program at the same university. She knows Turkish, English and Spanish. When she was an undergraduate student, she studied in Zaragoza University in Zaragoza, Spain as an exchange student for six months and had a chance to improve her Spanish. Before being a PhD student at MSU, she was an English instructor at a public university in Istanbul. Currently, she is interested doing research in second language vocabulary learning and teaching.