Pedagogical Presentations
Spanish Map Tasks:
Practicing Pronunciation of Difficult Orthographic Sequences
Here are the teaching materials from my PSLLT 2022 teaching tip:
Map Tasks Lesson Plan
PowerPoint Slides for Map Tasks
100-level materials for students
100-level map key
300-level materials for students
300-level map key
Map Tasks Lesson Plan
PowerPoint Slides for Map Tasks
100-level materials for students
100-level map key
300-level materials for students
300-level map key
IPA Battleship:
Practice with Phonetic Symbols
Check out the teaching materials I presented at the Ignite session at CASPSLaP 2018!:
IPA Battleship: Practice with phonetic symbols and their descriptions (lesson plan and PowerPoint)
More teaching materials are available at the Ignite 2018 website
IPA Battleship: Practice with phonetic symbols and their descriptions (lesson plan and PowerPoint)
More teaching materials are available at the Ignite 2018 website
High Variability Phonetic Training in the Classroom
My colleagues Silvina Bongiovanni (Michigan State University), Alisha Reaves (Towson University), Ryan Lidster (Marshall University), Chisato Kojima (Illinois Wesleyan University), Jamie Root (New York University), and I have created short online perception training sessions for Spanish, French, and Japanese based on principles of high variability phonetic training. We are currently in the process of making a free website that teachers can incorporate into their courses. If you're interested in beta testing our future HVPT website, sign up here!
Teaching Experience
Linguistics and Pedagogy
I have designed and taught an Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics course, a Spanish phonetics/pronunciation course, and a graduate teaching methods course. Go to my "Resources & Links" page to see some resources for teaching Spanish phonology and regional variation, and check out the presentation at the top of the page for an example of an activity I've made for the Hispanic Linguistics class.
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Spanish as a Second Language
I've taught a variety of Spanish language courses, from beginner to advanced level. As a specialist in second language acquisition and Hispanic Linguistics, I consistently aim to apply my knowledge of research on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to the classroom. Here are the courses I've taught:
University of North Carolina Wilmington
English as a Second Language
My experience as an ESL instructor includes teaching in an intensive immersion program and in an English language improvement program for university students. I've designed courses within a content-based curriculum in reading and writing as well as speaking and listening. I've also taught more specialized courses in English pronunciation, "phonics" (a class on pronunciation and sound-spelling correspondences for lower-level learners), and extensive reading (a class designed to boast learners' reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge through the extensive reading of easy books for their level). See below for my list of courses taught:
Intensive English Program
Courses in this program range from Level 1 (lowest proficiency) to Level 7 (ready for academic coursework in a university)
This program is for students registered as regular university students
I have designed and taught an Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics course, a Spanish phonetics/pronunciation course, and a graduate teaching methods course. Go to my "Resources & Links" page to see some resources for teaching Spanish phonology and regional variation, and check out the presentation at the top of the page for an example of an activity I've made for the Hispanic Linguistics class.
University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Current Research and Practices in Teaching Spanish
- Phonetics
- Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Spanish as a Second Language
I've taught a variety of Spanish language courses, from beginner to advanced level. As a specialist in second language acquisition and Hispanic Linguistics, I consistently aim to apply my knowledge of research on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to the classroom. Here are the courses I've taught:
University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Introductory Spanish I
- Intermediate Spanish I
- Second-Year Spanish II
- Spanish Grammar in Context
- Elementary Spanish II
- Second-Year Spanish I
English as a Second Language
My experience as an ESL instructor includes teaching in an intensive immersion program and in an English language improvement program for university students. I've designed courses within a content-based curriculum in reading and writing as well as speaking and listening. I've also taught more specialized courses in English pronunciation, "phonics" (a class on pronunciation and sound-spelling correspondences for lower-level learners), and extensive reading (a class designed to boast learners' reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge through the extensive reading of easy books for their level). See below for my list of courses taught:
Intensive English Program
Courses in this program range from Level 1 (lowest proficiency) to Level 7 (ready for academic coursework in a university)
- Phonics Level 2
- Extensive Reading Level 4
- Reading & Writing Level 4
- Reading & Writing Level 6
- Reading & Writing Level 3
- Communication Level 1
- Communication Level 3
- Communication Level 4
This program is for students registered as regular university students
- Pronunciation