Expertise

Interests:

  • Second language leaning and teaching
  • Sociocultural theory
  • Assessment
  • Hispanic sociolinguistics

She has conducted research on sociocultural approaches to classroom interaction and dynamic assessment, on health discourse, and Spanish sociolinguistics, particularly in the area of language contact.


Expertise:

  • Bilingual
  • Education
  • Linguistics
Past Affiliations
Communities
European Studies, Language Studies, Chicano/a Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994
MA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1992
Licenciatura, Universidad de Oviedo
Keywords
language acquisition and development sociolinguistics applied linguistics
Languages
Spanish