EDUCATION

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Ph. D. in Spanish Applied Linguistics, July 1997

Dissertation title: "Attention to form and meaning in second language acquisition:  Object clitic pronouns in Spanish" Director: Cristina Sanz

University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
M.A. TEFL/ Second Language Acquisition, Summer 1990

Thesis title: "The use of communication strategies by learners of Spanish as a foreign language" Director: Greta Little

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
Llicenciat, English Philology, June 1988
Diploma of Pedagogical Aptitude, June 1988
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Florida, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures  (Fall 1997 to present)
Assistant professor of Spanish, Director of the first-year Spanish program

Graduate courses:
          Spanish Second Language Acquisition   
          Introduction to Graduate Studies in Hispanic Linguistics
          Research Design, Methods, and Statistics in Applied Linguistics
          Input and Interaction in Second Language Acquisition
          Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism
          Romance Language Teaching Methods
          Supervised Teaching
          Current issues in Second Language Acquisition
          Formal Instruction and the Acquisition of Spanish

Undergraduate courses:

Spanish Second Language Acquisition
Applied Linguistics: the Acquisition of Spanish
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism
Structure of Spanish
Accelerated Introduction to Spanish

Introductory Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Advanced Spanish
Intensive Advanced Spanish
Advanced Spanish for School of Foreign  Service
Advanced Expository Writing
Advanced Topics for Oral Proficiency

 Introductory Catalan

University of South Carolina, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (Fall 1988 to Spring 1990)
Instructor, Spanish

Introductory Spanish
Advanced Conversation
Spanish Tutoring Center

Auxiliary Instructor, Spanish

 Intermediate Spanish
 Advanced Conversation (Masters in International Business Studies Program)

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed articles

“The emergence of the imperfect in Spanish as a foreign language: The association between imperfective morphology and state verbs.” (2005). International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 43, 163-192

“The analysis of oral self-correction as a window into the development of past time reference in Spanish.” (2003). Foreign Language Annals, 36, 233-242.

“Concurrent and retrospective verbal reports as tools to better understand the role of attention in second language tasks.” (2003) International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 13, 201-221.

“Modality and the expression of tense and aspect by beginning learners of Spanish.” (2003). In Kempchinsky, P., & C.E. Pineros (eds.) Theory, Practice, and Acquisition: Papers from the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese (313-331). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

“Aspectual distinctions in Spanish as a Foreign Language: The early stages of oral production.” (2002).  International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 40, 179-210.

“Preterit and imperfect in Spanish: The early stages of development.” (2000). In Leow, R.P., & C. Sanz (eds.) Spanish Applied Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 1999 Conference on the L1 & L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese (1-19). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
   

Edited volumes

Camps, J. & C. Wiltshire (eds.) (2001). Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition. Selected Papers from the 30th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, FL. February 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wiltshire, C. & J. Camps (eds.) (2002). Romance Phonology and Variation. Selected Papers from the 30th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, FL. February 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
 

Book review

Heidi Byrnes (ed.) (1998). Learning Foreign and Second Languages. New York: Modern   Language Association. South Atlantic Review. 65, 1 (2000): 168-171.
 

Teaching materials

“Jóvenes salvados de la droga.” in Spanish-TV Magazine, Video Teaching Guide.  Program 602, Nov.-Dec. (1996). pp. 33-39. (with Ronald Leow).
 

Conference Presentations

“Tense-aspect morphology in Spanish as a foreign language: The case of state verbs.” 6th Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 16, 2003.

“Modality and the expression of tense and aspect by beginning learners of Spanish.” 5th Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Iowa City, Iowa, October 19, 2002.

“Think-aloud protocols as a tool to understanding pronominal reference.” Conference on Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition, Chicago, Illinois, February 22, 2002

“The analysis of oral self-correction as a window into the development of past time reference.” 4th Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, October 12, 2001.

“Aspectual distinctions in Spanish: The early stages of oral production.” 4th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana, November 19, 2000.

“Learning Catalan: The role of previous knowledge.” 3rd Annual Conference on the Less Commonly Taught Languages, Washington, DC., May 7, 2000.

“Preterit and imperfect in Spanish: The early stages of development.” 1999 Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Washington, DC., October 9, 1999.

“Attitudes toward codeswitching in the university environment.” XVII National Conference on Spanish in the United States, Coral Gables, Florida. March 12,  1999.

“Processing form and meaning in the input:  Object clitic pronouns in Spanish.” Second Language Research Forum, Honolulu, Hawai'i. October 16, 1998.

“Influència entre llengües: el paper del castellà en l'aprenentatge del català per part d'una aprenent de llengua anglesa.”  9th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, Barcelona.  May 27, 1998.

“The Role of Knowledge of a Second Language in the Acquisition of a Third Language.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics Spring conference in Lafayette, Louisiana. March 27, 1998.

“The clitic en in Catalan.”  Fifth Catalan Symposium, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November, 1994.

“Teaching Catalan in the USA.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 1992.
 
 

Seminar presentations

“The Catalan language: Past struggles, present challenges, and future hopes.” University of Florida. March 17, 2004

“Stages of development in the acquisition of preterit and imperfect in Spanish: Methodological choices and their effect on the analysis.” University of Florida Program in Linguistics Seminar Series.  November 20, 2003.

“Research design in second language acquisition: Issues regarding the analysis of learner production.” University of Florida, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Entre Nous  seminar.  February 18, 2003.

“A brief description of Catalan: A language born and raised between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean.”  University of Florida, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bordeaux: Resituating the Periphery.  A Colloquium on the Languages and Literatures of the Pyrenees. April 20, 2001.

“Processing form and meaning in the input: Pronominal reference in Spanish as a foreign language.” University of South Carolina Linguistics Program Colloquium Series. Columbia, SC. March 2, 2001.

“Why would I want to learn Catalan?  The future of a less-commonly taught language in the U.S.”  University of Florida, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Entre Nous seminar.  March 22, 1999.

“Processing input in Spanish as a foreign language: In search of pronominal reference.” University of Florida Program in Linguistics Seminar Series.  February 11, 1999.

“Attention to form and meaning in the foreign language classroom.” Marion County Foreign Language Teachers’ in-service Workshop, Vanguard High School, Ocala. February 17, 1998.

“Attention to form and meaning: Clitics in Spanish” with José Yánez del Pozo. Spanish Department Graduate Student Organization Seminar Series, Georgetown  University, April 30, 1996.
 
 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Co-organizer of the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Organizer of a  Parasession on Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition. University of  Florida, Gainesville, February 24-27, 2000.

Reviewer for the selected proceedings of the 2003 Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition
of Spanish and Portuguese, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cascadilla Press.

Reviewer for the selected proceedings of the 1999 Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition
of Spanish and Portuguese, Washington, DC., Cascadilla Press.
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
North American Catalan Society (NACS)
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)
 

LANGUAGES

Catalan, native speaker; Spanish, native speaker; English, fluent; German, intermediate level proficiency; French, good reading skills;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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