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Voces de Princeton

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By Jovana Zujevic Dr. Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Associate Director of the Spanish Language Program, along with Ben Johnston, Senior Educational Technologist, has created Voces de Princeton, a digital repository of interviews and casual conversations with members of the Spanish-speaking community at … 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 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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Documentary Screening

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Special documentary screening: “The Eyes of the Journey” By Catalina Méndez Vallejo On April 5th, there was a special screening of the film “The Eyes of the Journey”/”Los Ojos del Camino”. The screening was co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish … Continue reading

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Reaching out to the Princeton Community

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Students in SPA 211 engage in two community-outreach projects and reflect on social aspects of language use By Catalina Méndez Vallejo This semester, the students in SPA 211 (Varieties of Spanish) engaged in two community-outreach projects. For the first project, … Continue reading

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Aprendo

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Aprendo: An alternative to language textbooks By Catalina Méndez Vallejo Commercial textbooks constitute the most common teaching resource in the U.S., and represent a highly competitive industry.  Their omnipresence has become a key factor in determining how language courses are … Continue reading

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Lingüística en Contexto

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Lingüística en Contexto: An educational project that impacts the community By Catalina Méndez Vallejo During the spring semester, students in SPA 211 (Varieties of Spanish) design and produce an educational video about a specific topic related to linguistic variation in … Continue reading

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