Summer Language Institute for Spanish Teachers
SLI Faculty
SLI Director
Dr. Anne Connor - Southern Oregon University
Anne Connor received her PhD in Spanish from Vanderbilt University and is Associate Professor of Spanish at Southern Oregon University, where she currently directs the Summer Language Institute. She teaches intermediate through advanced Spanish courses and is particularly interested in Contemporary Latin American Literature, U.S. Latino Literature and Culture, Women Writers of Latin America, and Music and Culture of Latin America. Email: connora@sou.edu
Winter Session: On-Line Course
Dr. Dennie Hoopingarner - Michigan State University
Dennie Hoopingarner is the Director of the Language Learning Center, and Associate Director for Technology Implementation at the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University. Hoopingarner earned his M.Ed in Secondary and Adult Education at Grand Valley State University, and his PhD in Linguistics at Michigan State University. He has been teaching at the college level since 1994. Previous to returning to the United States, he taught English and Chinese in the Republic of China. Hoopingarner has created numerous software programs for language teaching, applying technology and linguistic and learning theory to create innovative applications for language learning. He frequently partners with faculty in Michigan State University's Second Language Studies program to conduct research in second language acquisition using software tools for data elicitation and collection. As part of his position at Michigan State, Hoopingarner conducts workshops on the effective use of technology for language teaching for language teachers across the country and abroad. Email: hooping4@msu.edu
Summer 2010 - Session 1
Dr. Susan Hildebrandt - Illinois State University
Susan Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Coordinator of Teacher Education in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University. She earned her PhD in Foreign Language and ESL Education from the University of Iowa. Before her graduate studies, she taught Spanish at the elementary, middle, and high school levels for six years. Her research concerns second language teacher education and professionalization, assessment and evaluation, educational policy, and students with disabilities in the foreign language classroom. Email: shildeb@ilstu.edu
Dr. Sonia Kania - University of Texas at Arlington
Sonia Kania received her PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was director of the Department of Modern Languages’ Summer Study Abroad Program in Valladolid, Spain for three years and is currently a research fellow at UT Arlington’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography. She teaches advanced and graduate courses in Spanish language and linguistics and is particularly interested in the History of the Spanish Language, Spanish Dialectology, and the Origins of American Spanish. Her research focuses on Colonial Mexican and New Mexican Spanish. Email: skania@uta.edu
Dr. Judith Liskin-Gasparro - University of Iowa
Judith Liskin-Gasparro received her PhD in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin and is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa, where she also co-directs an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition. She teaches courses in teaching methods, second language acquisition, and Spanish language and applied linguistics, and until recently she was the director of the elementary and intermediate Spanish program. She is particularly interested in foreign language proficiency assessment, program evaluation and outcomes assessment, and the teaching materials (she is a co-author of two recent textbooks). Email: judith-liskin-gasparro@uiowa.edu
Dr. Gustavo Mejía - Central Connecticut State University
Gustavo Mejia holds a PhD from the University of Essex in England. He is currently Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Central Connecticut State University. He has taught at several institutions of higher learning in different parts of the world, and has been Associate Director of the Middlebury College School of Spanish in Vermont. He also directed Middlebury College’s Graduate School in Spain. Dr Mejia has also taught at the University of Natal Durban in South Africa and at the Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional in his native Colombia. He coordinates the Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish (SITS) at CCSU, and has participated in workshops on the Integration of Language and Culture through the use of technology. Dr. Mejia is the editor of several scholarly books and articles. He has also contributed to Spanish language textbooks, among which Mosaicos (5th Edition), and La escritura paso a paso (Prentice Hall). Email: MejiaG@mail.ccsu.edu
Dr. Mary O'Donnell - South Dakota State University
M
ary E. O’Donnell earned a PhD in Second Language Acquisition specializing in program language direction from the University of Iowa. She also has an MA in Spanish literature from the University of Notre Dame. Currently, she is teaching at South Dakota State University where she will eventually supervise the Spanish language sequence. She is now teaching Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and Spanish for Medical Professionals—as she is a Registered Nurse. Recently, she was the Director of Intermediate Spanish at Purdue University where she trained, supervised, and mentored teaching faculty and graduate teaching assistants. Her areas of academic interest include foreign language (FL) assessment, teacher training and supervision, the use of technologies in FL classrooms, and reading and writing in a foreign language. Email: Mary.ODonnell@sdstate.edu
Summer 2010 - Session 2
Dr. Catherine M. Barrette - Wayne State University
Catherine M. Barrette is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Spanish Basic Courses at Wayne State University. She earned her PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona, specializing in pedagogy and program administration. At Wayne State she teaches courses in Spanish language and applied linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With three co-authors she developed an introductory college textbook (Impresiones, Prentice Hall, 2004) that employs a task-based approach to language and culture. Furthermore, she is co-editor of a volume in the AAUSC series in Language Program Direction on language program articulation (Language Program Articulation: Developing a Theoretical Foundation, Heinle & Heinle, 2005), and has published research on language program articulation, teacher training, assessment, and instructional technology. Email: aa1471@wayne.edu
Dr. Craig Bergeson - Weber State University
Craig Bergeson received his MA from the University of Nevada, Reno and his PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is Professor of Spanish at Weber State University. He has developed courses that build language proficiency through the integration of various disciplines, such as art, film, history, literature, music, and photography. His research interests include methods of teaching literature and culture, contemporary Spanish narrative, and time in narrative literature. Email: CBERGESON@weber.edu
Dr. Troy Crawford - Universidad de Guanajuato
Troy Crawford, BA (Southern Oregon University), MBA (University of Guanajuato), MS (University of Guanajuato), MA (University of London), PhD (University of Kent, Canterbury) teaches courses on discourse analysis, techniques for teaching reading, writing, and grammar, and qualitative research methods. He has published articles in the area of second language writing and co-authored Close-up (Reading Comprehension). He is an Oral Examiner for University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and an Expert Translator for the Guanajuato State Supreme Court. He currently works in the educational planning department at the University of Guanajuato. Email: crawford@quijote.ugto.mx
Dr. Enrique Marquez- Florida Gulf Coast University
Enrique Marquez holds his PhD in Spanish from the University of Miami (1979). He also earned his MA in Linguistics from Université de Paris III-Sorbonne (1982); and his DEA in Linguistics, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris (1985). He has taught at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Spanish and French at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he leads the Foreign Language Program and is in charge of teaching Spanish, French, and cinema courses. He has published numerous academic books and articles, and presented papers at national and international forums. Email: emarquez@fgcu.edu
Dr. Kim Potowski - University of Illinois at Chicago
Kim Potowski is an Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Spanish heritage speaker program. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, principally exploring questions about language use and identity but also aspects of the structure of bilingual Spanish. Whenever possible she applies her findings to the heritage speaker classroom in order to create more effective teaching and learning. Email: kimpotow@uic.edu
Faculty from previous years
Dr. Francisco Cabello - Concordia College
Francisco Cabello is a native of Seville, Spain. He holds a BA in Modern Philology from the University of Seville, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate University, and was awarded his PhD in Spanish from the University of California at Davis. He is the author of the popular book Total Physical Response in the First Year with versions in Spanish, English and French. Email: cabello@cord.edu
Dr. Mariche García Bayonas - University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Mariche García Bayonas, a native of Spain, holds a PhD in Spanish
Dr. Tom Mathews - Weber State University
Tom Mathews received his MA from Middlebury College in Madrid, Spain, and then completed a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Delaware. He has been teaching at the university level for 24 years. He taught methods and graduate courses at BYU for five years before he moved to Weber State University in 1996. At Weber State, he is now Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Tom has published articles on language teaching and assessment in Foreign Language Annals, Hispania and Connections, among other places. He has twice been president of the Utah Foreign Language Association and is currently the Utah representative on the SWCOLT Board. Email: tmathews@weber.edu
Dr. María Paz Moreno - University of Cincinnati
María Paz Moreno is a native of Spain. She received her Licenciatura in Spanish Philology from the University of Alicante and later earned her PhD in Spanish Literature from Ohio State University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches literature, language and film courses. Prof. Moreno’s specialty is contemporary Spanish poetry. Email: morenom@uc.edu
Dr. Scott Rex - Southern Oregon University
Scott Rex holds a PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the University of California at Davis and is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southern Oregon University, where he directs the foreign language teacher education program. Previously, he directed the Self-Instructional Language Program at the University of South Alabama and developed linguistics courses for education students. He has worked in teacher training and preparation at Sacramento State University and the University of South Alabama. His research interests include theoretical syntax and second language acquisition. Email: rexs@sou.edu
