CURRICULUM
VITA
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/x/mxy159/
Email: mxy159@psu.edu
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State College, PA 16801 |
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Penn State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Ph. D. in
Spanish Applied Linguistics (expected Spring 2005).
Coursework
and research in Sociocultural
Theory, SLA, Methods, Spanish concept-based grammar, Spanish discourse,
language-based literature instruction, literacy, and technology for foreign
language teaching.
Dissertation: On Literature and the Secret Art of (Im)possible Worlds: Teaching/
Learning Literature through Language. This dissertation analyzes the
theoretical and practical aspects of language-based literature instruction as
an alternative to the traditional bifurcation between language and literature
courses in most Foreign Language programs in the US and other parts of the
world.
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Chair: |
Dr. James
P. Lantolf |
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Committee: |
Dr. John
Lipski |
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Dr. Aníbal González Pérez Dr. Steven L. Thorne Dr. Ronald
Carter |
University
of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
M.A. in Foreign
Languages (Spanish) and Pedagogy (May, 2000).
Coursework in Pedagogy of Foreign Languages,
General Linguistics, Assessment, Peninsular and Latin-American Literature, and
ESL.
Universidad
de Granada, Granada, Spain
M.A. (Licenciatura)
in English Philology
(June, 1998).
Coursework in General Linguistics, Pedagogy,
Pragmatics, Phonology and Phonetics, History of the English language, English
Grammar, American and English literatures, Spanish language, Spanish and
European literature, and Philosophy.
M.A. (Licenciatura)
in Translation and Interpretation of Foreign Languages, (September, 1996).
Major in translation of English, French
and Spanish, specialized in the direct and inverse translation of documents in
the fields of legal correspondence, commerce, business and tourism;
constitutional, international and court law; medicine, general nutrition, and
nutrition for athletic performance.
B.A. (Diplomatura)
in Translation and Interpretation of Foreign Languages (June, 1994).
Coursework in Linguistics applied to
translation; simultaneous and consecutive interpretation; contrastive grammar
of English and Spanish; introduction to constitutional, international, and
court law, and law systems in various countries; civilization and cultures of
English-speaking countries; Spanish language and literature, history of the
Spanish language; research methods for translators, and computer science.
CAP: Certificación de Aptitud
Pedagógica [Teaching Certification for teaching in schools in Spain]. November
1997 through March 1998.
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
Participated
in CALPER Workshop on “Concept-based Approach to Grammar Teaching”. Penn State
University (June 21-22, 2004)
Participated
in 2002 Summer Institute of Linguistics in “Language and Identity in Foreign
Language Learning”, “Autobiographies of Language Learners”, and “Critical
Pedagogies, Identity, and Language Learning”. Penn State University.
Participated
in Audiovisuals in ELT (1994), Course in Spanish Verses and Stanzas (1996),
Machine Translation programs in English and Spanish (1996), Universidad de
Granada, Granada, Spain.
RESEARCH
ACTIVITIES
Publication: Lantolf, J. P. & M. C. Yáñez-Prieto. (2003).
“Talking yourself into Spanish: The role of private speech in second language
learning”. Hispania 86: 98-110.
Participant in a
CALPER Project on Project-Based Learning and Foreign Language Education
co-directed by Gabriela Appel, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, and Karen Johnson.
October 2004.Will be available at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/g/f/gfj100/pbl/project2/
Poster
presentation in the Graduate
Exhibition in Spring 2005 for the exposition of a RGSO-funded research project
findings.
Presentation: “Between a Professional Code of
Ethics and an Ethics without a Code: the issue of Ethics as viewed by Pennycook
and Davies” presented by Yáñez-Prieto and Fernández-Vallejo at the Language
Acquisition Graduate Organization (LAGO) series at PSU, on February 12, 2002.
Funded by the Research and Graduate Studies Organization (RGSO) for research study support on
the teaching of literature through language. Spring 2004.
Instructor
of the Spanish control section of the Telecollaboration Project conducted by the Penn State
University Center of Language Acquisition. Fall 2001.
TEACHING
and coordinating EXPERIENCE
Penn State
University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania
Spanish
Intensive Intermediate Grammar and Composition. Summer 2003, Fall 2003, Spring
2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/x/mxy159/span200.htm
Coordinator of an average of six to eight
sections of Spanish 200 per semester.
Responsibilities:
syllabus design, selection of readings; creation of instructional materials,
activities, and a resource web page for instructors and students (see address
above); revision of instructors’ materials and activities; design of tests,
course portfolio, students’ checklists and log formats for process writing,
self-editing and linguistic reflection; creation of a course packet for
language review with emphasis on metalanguage and the structure of the
utterance; organization of orientations and periodical meetings with
instructors.
Teaching
of Romance Languages.
A requirement for teaching certification. Fall 2004.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/x/mxy159/methods/
Graduate
Lecturer.
Total
responsibility for class, including design of the course syllabus, selection of
readings, lecture, creation of materials for (self-) reflection and in-class
discussion, assessment, technology for foreign language teaching/ learning,
organization of students’ observations, organization of community of inquirers
with PSU students and University of Granada students of English Pedagogy for
the enhancement of genre development and cultural sensitivity.
Spanish
Advanced Grammar and Composition (The Learning of Literary Discourse as
Language in Use) A
requirement for Spanish majors. Spring 2004.
Graduate
Instructor.
Total
responsibility for class, including design of the course syllabus, selection of
readings, assessment, and the creation of materials and activities for
language-based literary instruction, concept-based grammar instruction, the teaching
of Spanish discourse, and creative writing.
This was the
experimental course that provided the data for my dissertation.
Spanish
Intensive Intermediate Grammar and Composition. Fall 2003, Summer 2003, Spring
2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001.
Graduate Instructor.
Spanish
Intermediate Grammar and Composition. Spring 2002 at Penn State University.
Graduate
Instructor.
The
Spanish Intensive at the Pennsylvania State University Summer Institute. Summer 2004, Summer 2003, Summer
2002, Summer 2001.
Teamteacher.
Collaborated
in the teaching of the course, and students’ evaluation with other three
colleagues.
Second
Semester of Elementary Spanish. Fall 2001, Fall 2000.
Graduate
Instructor.
First
Semester of Elementary Spanish. Spring 2001.
Graduate
Instructor.
University
of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Third
Semester of Elementary Spanish. Spring 2000, Winter 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1999,
Fall 1998.
Teamteacher.
Three of the
sections in the Honors program.
SERVICE
Penn State University,
University Park, State College, Pennsylvania.
Chair for
Collaboration in SLA at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) on October 15th, 2004, at
Penn State University.
Graduate
and Fixed Term Employee Organization (GFTEO) steward for the Department of Spanish,
Italian and Portuguese, Spring 2004.
Graduate
Student Organization (GSO) Graduate Committee Member. December 2003-May 2004.
Served as representative of the Linguistics students of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Department, which included voicing concerns and serving as conduit between faculty and graduate students. Also created resource pages for the Graduate students in both the literature and the linguistics tracks that can be found at:
http://sip.la.psu.edu/graduate/gsojournals.html (research resources)
http://sip.la.psu.edu/graduate/gsoteaching.html (teaching resources)
http://sip.la.psu.edu/graduate/gsotools.html (writing tools for English-speaking
and Spanish-speaking graduate students)
http://sip.la.psu.edu/graduate/gsoprofessional.html
(in collaboration with Silvia Álvarez Olarra, list of professional
associations for literature and linguistics students).
Intermediate
Spanish Program orientation co-organizer for the future application of concept-based
grammar instruction at this level. August 2004.
Planned in collaboration with Intermediate Spanish Language Program Supervisor Alexander F. Borys. This orientation was organized for Spanish 100 and 200 instructors as a follow-up of the Concept-based Grammar Workshop taught in the CALPER Workshop series, June 2004, at Penn State University.
Responsibilities:
collaborated in the search of concept-based grammar materials for instructors
that would apply to the topics studied in Intermediate Spanish Grammar and
Composition, and Intensive Intermediate Grammar and Composition; discussion
leading of these topics with instructors during the three-day orientation, and
the recommendation of other sources and materials available for instructor’s
support.
Member of a textbook search committee for
the Intermediate Language Program. Fall 2003 and Spring 2004.
Web design facilitator for Spanish
100 colleagues. October 2003.
Instructors
were taught how to create web pages and how to use them for collaborative
projects in the classroom.
Mentor of a new graduate linguistics
student. 2002.
Volunteer to welcome and to take several
linguistics prospective students on campus visits. 2001, 2002.
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de
Granada, Granada, Spain
Assistant
at the International Conference of Chicano Literature. 1998.
Helped
attendants at the information desk, and the book stand; welcomed speakers to
the department.
Assistant
at the II National Conference of General Linguistics. March, 1996
Helped
attendants at the information desk and in conference rooms.
HONORS,
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Penn State
University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania.
Teaching Excellence
Award of the Penn State College of Liberal Arts. 2003.
Teaching
Excellence Awards of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. 2002, 2001
University
of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Teaching
Excellence of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 2000.
Outstanding
Academic Performance Award of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures. May, 2000.
Honors in
the Spanish Literature Comprehensive M.A. Exams of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures. May, 2000.
Honors in
the Pedagogy-of-Foreign Languages M. A. Comprehensive Exams of the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures. May, 2000.
Universidad
de Granada, Granada, Spain
Honors in six courses of English language and
literature in the final three years of program of M.A. in English Philology.
June, 1998.
professional
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the American
Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).
COMPUTER
SKILLS
Web page
design
Computer-assisted
language instruction
(chat, forum, blogs, wikis, webquests)
LANGUAGES
Spanish: native
English: near-native proficiency
French: intermediate-advanced reading
and writing proficiency
Italian: novice reading proficiency
REFERENCES
Prof.
James P. Lantolf, 304b Sparks Building, office phone: 814-863-7038,
email: jpl7@psu.edu
Prof.
Steven L. Thorne, 304a Sparks, office phone: 814- 863-7036, email: sthorne@psu.edu
Prof.
Karen Johnson, 305 Sparks Building, office phone: 814-865-4982, email: kej1@psu.edu
Mr.
Alexander F. Borys, Intermediate Language Program Supervisor, 245 N
Burrowes Bldg., office phone
814 865-1171, email: aborys@psu.edu
