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Presentation at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

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Anna Alsina presented her work on juridical language in the United States Lecturer Anna Alsina presented her research work on Plain Legal Language at the “Rebus Sic Stantibus I Jornada UIC Lenguaje jurídico” at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona. … Continue reading

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Video Contest

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SPA 102 Global Citizenship and Social Commitment Project By Adriana Merino (course coordinator) SPA 102 students engaged in a semester-long project called Social Commitment as Social Change Agents. The aim of the project was to explore relevant real-world issues within the Spanish-speaking … Continue reading

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Princeton at NEALLT

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Building a video corpus and developing authentic oral input activities to support language learners This year’s conference for the Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) was held at UPenn in Philadelphia and Princeton Spanish & Portuguese Lecturers Catalina Méndez … Continue reading

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Presentation at NEMLA

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Developing Intercultural Pragmatic Competence in Elementary-level Spanish learners. Lecturers Adriana Merino and Andie Faber recently presented their work at the 50th NorthEast Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, D.C. Their talk, “Developing Intercultural Pragmatic Competence in Elementary L2 Students through … Continue reading

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Encuentro Práctico Barcelona

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Lecturers attend conference on new trends in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language Last December, our lecturers Anna Alsina and Paloma Moscardó attended the XXVII “Encuentro Práctico Barcelona” organized by International House and Difusión. This is a prestigious conference for … Continue reading

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Plain legal Spanish

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Endeavours towards a plain legal language: The case of Spanish in context By Anna Alsina Naudi Implementing plain legal language is a project for those who are trying to build trust in legal systems all over the world. This paper … Continue reading

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Second language teaching and global citizenship

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Educating global citizens while promoting diversity, inclusion, and social justice By Adriana Merino, Paloma Moscardó-Valles, and Sylvia Zetterstrand Merino, Moscardó and Zetterstrand presented at the 100th Annual American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) conference, in Salamanca, Spain, during the week of June … Continue reading

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Language ideologies

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Language ideologies: Verdad e incorrección política By Nadia Cervantes Lecturer Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn published the article “Verdad e incorrección política en el discurso trumpista” in the Dossier on “Trump y Glotopolítica” of the “LLJournal” of The CUNY Graduate Center.    

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Ideologías lingüísticas

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“Félix Restrepo y el hispanismo pro-franquista colombiano: una lectura glotopolítica” By Nadia Cervantes Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn presented a paper in the 4th International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and North America (April 11-13, 2018). This work is part of … Continue reading

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Presentation at the SS22

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Catalina Méndez Vallejo presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand. By Nadia Cervantes Catalina’s talk, titled “Surveying dialectal variation in Spanish: The case of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure”, discussed empirical work on the FS structure (e.g. “Nevó … Continue reading

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