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Anna Alsina presenting at AELFE-LSPPC 2023 in Zaragoza

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The day after the presentation at AATSP in Salamanca, Anna Alsina Naudi presented at the International Conference of the AELFE-LSPPC (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos- Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association) 2023 in Zaragoza. The presentation entitled Word Combinations in … Continue reading

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Medical Spanish Videos: Shooting!

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Last week took place a special shooting at the Broadcast studio in Lewis Library. Paloma Moscardó was “directing” a group of volunteers from around campus in some “mock medical interviews”. The actors were given a script to play the role … Continue reading

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Meriño’s Research Presentation: Enhancing Multilingual Communication through Intercultural Oral Interactions

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One of our lecturers, Adriana Merino, presented her research at the Annual International Conference of the Chilean Linguistics Society (SOCHIL 2023). Merino’s presentation focused on the topic of intercultural oral interactions and their role in promoting effective multilingual and multicultural … Continue reading

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Anna Alsina publishes in prestigious LSP Journal

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A Task-Based Road Map to Teaching Business Spanish with Word Combinations We are delighted to announce the publication of the article by Anna Alsina Naudi in the 23rd issue of the Global Business Languages Journal. This is a research-informed pedagogical … Continue reading

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WORKSHOP: Accommodating Justice: How to make justice more accessible to diverse vulnerable populations in the US and Latin America

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Anna Alsina Naudi (Princeton University) and Nicolás Espejo Yáksic (Research Center for Constitutional Studies of the Supreme Court of Mexico) organized a full-day workshop sponsored by SPIA, Princeton Center for Human Values, the Humanities Council and the Spanish & Portuguese … Continue reading

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Colombian Photographer exhibit and class visits

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Jeison Riascos, aka el Murcy, is a Colombian photographer whose work is on display at the Lower Hyphen in East Pyne. His photographs focus on the region and people of El Chocó, a lush area of western Colombia with beaches … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Adriana Merino on recent book chapter publication!

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Lecturer Adriana Merino contributed a chapter to the book Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction, just published (March 1, 2023) by De Gruyter Mouton. Edited by the founder of Intercultural Pragmatics, Istvan Kecskes, is the Volume 26 in the series … Continue reading

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Lecturers Moscardó Vallés and Holgado Lage at International Grammar Conference in Valencia, Spain

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On January 26th Anais Holgado Lage and Paloma Moscardó Vallés presented their work at the IV International Conference on Teaching Grammar in Valencia, Spain. They discussed how to integrate grammar in courses that are content-based: in particular, Anais explain the … Continue reading

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SOLPHE 2022 – Promoting Learning through Formative Assessment and Feedback

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Adriana Merino presented at the Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education, co-hosted by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign & Ohio University (October 8, 2022). Her paper, titled “Promoting Learning through Formative Assessment and Feedback”, was the product of her … Continue reading

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Merino and Méndez Vallejo at the 2022 PLL Conference. Creating pedagogical materials using spoken corpora to develop socio-pragmatic competence

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In September 2022, Adriana Merino and Catalina Méndez Vallejo presented a paper at the Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, organized by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the Center for Applied Second … Continue reading

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