About MeI am an Assistant Professor of Spanish at North Carolina State University. My primary research interest is language variation and change, and I work on first, additional, and heritage languages. I take a usage-based approach to my research, with the assumption that the cognitive mechanisms and abilities that are involved in first language acquisition and use are the same as those that are at play for additional and heritage languages. In all my research, I seek to describe, explain, and track changes in patterns of variation in order to approach a better understanding of the role of variation in the acquisition and mental architecture of language.
I also have had a wide range of teaching experiences. I have taught all levels of Spanish language courses as well as several upper level undergraduate and graduate linguistics and culture courses, including Spanish Syntax and Morphology, History of the Spanish Language, Grammaticalization, Foreign Language Teaching Methods, Second Language Acquisition, Individual Differences in SLA, Project-Based Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., and Language Variation and Change. In all my teaching, I connect the course material to my students' experiences and create opportunities for my students to conduct real linguistic analysis and research in and outside of class. I am also a huge proponent of High Quality Project-Based Learning and incorporate this pedagogical approach into my courses frequently. Click below for: My NCSU Faculty Webpage My ORCID ID Webpage |
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North Carolina State University Department of World Languages and Cultures Withers 407 Raleigh, NC 27695 |