Presentations

Invited speaker

  • Bringing Spanishes into the language classroom through corpus-based pedagogic material (with A. Merino). PCLS Lunch Talk Series. Princeton, NJ.: 2022
  • La variación morfosintáctica en el español de Colombia. Ciclo de conferencias: El español hablado en Colombia. Grupo de investigaciones Glotta - Universidad Industrial de Santander: December 2020. 
  • Voces de la periferia: retos y propuestas para enseñar una lengua local en los Estados Unidos, (with A. Faber, N. Cervantes, A. Holgado & P. Moscardó). El futuro de la enseñanza del español en Estados Unidos (Instituto Cervantes). New York, NY: December 2017.
  • Estatus dialectal y estructura sintáctica del “Ser Focalizador”. Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas (Hispanistentag). Heidelberg, Germany: March 2015.
  • Variación sintáctica y focalización: el caso del “Ser Focalizador”. Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL). João Pessoa, Brazil: July 2014.
  • Focus inside: evidence from the Spanish FS construction. Tuesday Seminar Series. Department of Linguistics. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, at Manoa; January 2011.
  • “Ser” focalizador en el español colombiano.  Invited lecture to introduce the “XXVI Congreso Nacional de Lingüística, Literatura y Semiótica”. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia; July 2010.

 

Peer-reviewed participation

Más allá de la sintaxis: aproximaciones multidisciplinarias en torno al Ser Focalizador. I Simposio Internacional sobre Variación Gramatical y Construcción del Significado. San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain. 2022.

Owning the Curriculum (with A. Bruzos-Moro and M. Bono). Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education. Virtual presentation. 2022.

Creating pedagogical materials using spoken corpora to develop socio-pragmatic competence (with A. Merino). Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference. Virtual presentation. 2022.

Celebrating language and its varieties: Bringing Spanishes into the classroom (with A. Merino). AATSP. San Juan: Puerto Rico. 2022.

Facilitating autonomous language learning and developing critical skills using an innovative Spanish learning platform (with A. Merino and A. Holgado-Lage). Owning the L2 Curriculum - CLTL Symposium. Virtual conference. 2021.

A syntactic-prosodic analysis of Focalizing ‘ser’ (with T. Flores). Acoustical Society of America, 179th Meeting. Virtual conference. 2021.

Exploring Issues of Sociolinguistic Variation in the Language Classroom. The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. San Diego, CA. 2019.

Surveying dialectal variation in Spanish: The case of the Focalizing Ser structure. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. Auckland, New Zealand. 2018.

Engaging Critical Thinking in the Elementary and Intermediate L2 Classroom Using an Online Platform, (with A. Faber, A. Holgado Lage, A. Merino & L. A. Spino-Seijas). 49th Annual NeMLA Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. 2018.

Syntactic variation of focus marking: The case of the Focalizing Ser in Colombia. XXI Deutscher Hispanistentag. Munich, Germany. 2017.

Aprendo: An alternative to traditional language textbooks, (with A. Merino, L. A. Spino-Seijas & S. Zetterstrand). ACTFL Convention. Nashville, TN. 2017.

“Face, politeness and linguistic evolution in Colombian Spanish”. 3rd International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. Bloomington, IN. 2016.

“TP-internal focus and dialectal variation: The case of the Focalizing Ser”. 8thInternational Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS8). San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2015.

“Focus on the dialects: The syntactic variation of focus marking in Caribbean Spanish”. Poster presentation with Manuel Delicado Cantero and Maria Carmen Parafita Couto. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Ottawa, Canada. 2013.

“Inside Spanish TPs”. XXVIII Biennial Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, LA. 2012.

 “Quiubo marica”: The new trendy form of address in Colombian Spanish.  Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Bloomington, IN. 2010.

TP-internal focus: The case of the focalizing ser (‘to be’) construction in Colombian Spanish.  38th Michigan Linguistics Society (MLS). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. October 2008.