Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
Wake Forest University
Department of Romance Languages
Greene Hall 323
P.O. Box 7566
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
(336)-758-5194
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Ph.D., Spanish. Indiana University, Bloomington (2005)
Dissertation : The second language acquisition of Spanish gender agreement: The effects of linguistic variables on accuracy.
Directors : Drs. James F. Lee and Kimberly L. Geeslin.
M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington (1998)
M.A., Applied Linguistics (TESOL), Indiana University, Bloomington (1998)
B.A., English Language and Literature, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (1990)
Thesis : The communicative approach and CALL activities: An integration.
Alarcón, I. (forthcoming). ¿Cómo es que “un vestido” es masculino y “una corbata” es
femenina”? In J. Ewald & A. Edstrom (Eds.), [title pending]. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press.
Alarcón, I. (2006). The second language acquisition of Spanish gender agreement: The effects of
linguistic variables on accuracy. Munich: LINCOM.
Alarcón, I. (2004). The sequential acquisition of L2 Spanish gender marking: Assignment and
agreement. Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online, 4, Article 7.
Retrieved from https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/
Alarcón, I. (2003). The polysemy of the conjunction y in Spanish proverbs. Indiana University
Linguistics Club Working Papers Online , 3, Article 2. Retrieved from
https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/
Alarcón, I. (2002). Syntactic complexity and processing difficulty: Towards an objective
syntactic measure of text simplification. Indiana University Linguistics Club Working
Papers Online , 2, Article 8. Retrieved from https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/
Alarcón, I. (2000). Design your own ranch house. In K. Ryan (Ed.), Recipes for wired teachers
(pp. 106-107). Nagoya, Japan: Japan Association of Language Teaching Computer
Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group (JALT CALL SIG).
Alarcón, I. (2000). Furnish your new apartment. In K. Ryan (Ed.), Recipes for wired teachers
(pp. 108-109). Nagoya, Japan: Japan Association of Language Teaching Computer
Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group (JALT CALL SIG).
Alarcón, M.A. & Alarcón, I. (1992). Sistemas de aprendizaje interactivos y adquisición de
lenguas. Revista de Lingüística Aplicada, 30, 51-60.
2004-2005 Language Learning Dissertation Grant. A grant given by the Board of Directors of Language Learning, a journal of research in language studies published at the University of Michigan by Blackwell Publishing.
2004 Agapito Rey/Donald Sisters/Timothy Rogers Travel Grant. A travel grant given by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University, to Ph.D. students participating in nationally recognized professional conferences.
2004 MLA Graduate Student Travel Grant. A grant given by the Modern Languages Association to advanced graduate students for travel assistance to the 2004 MLA convention in Philadelphia.
2004 Graduate & Professional Student Organization Travel Grant. A competitive award for graduate and professional students at Indiana University, Bloomington, given to help support travel expenses to conferences and workshops.
2004 Student Choice Award nominee. An annual award given by the student body at Indiana University to nominate outstanding professors.
2003 Department of Spanish and Portuguese nominee for the Lieber Associate Instructor Teaching Award. A university-wide teaching award.
2003 Associate Instructor Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2002 Outstanding Achievement in Teaching. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington. Recognizes instructors whose students rate them among the top 5% of university instructors.
2002 Distinguished Teaching Award. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington. Recognizes instructors whose students rate them among the top 10% of university instructors.
“Effects of morphological marking and noun class on the relationship between gender assignment and agreement in L2 Spanish.”
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference. [forthcoming] Costa Mesa, California: April 21-24, 2007.
“The effects of linguistic variables on accuracy of gender agreement in L2 Spanish.” Joint American Association for Applied Linguistics and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. Montréal: June 17-20, 2006.
“Comprehensible input: How teachers conceptualize and implement this concept in their language classroom.” Lilly South Conference on College University Teaching. University of North Carolina, Greensboro: February, 17-19, 2006.
“The effects of linguistic variables on processing times in L2 Spanish gender agreement.” Workshop on Language Processing at the Joint Meeting of The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium & The Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. The Pennsylvania State University: November, 10-13, 2005.
“Theoretical and pedagogical implications of input processing in the acquisition of morphological features by college-level learners.” 55 th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem: October 13-15, 2005.
“The use of colors and numbers to trigger meaningful interactions.” Foreign/Second Language Teaching Share Fair. Indiana University, Bloomington: March 25, 2005.
“Group work: Giving the responsibility to the students.” Foreign/Second Language Teaching Share Fair. Indiana University, Bloomington: October 29, 2004.
“A psycholinguistic approach to the study of L2 Spanish gender agreement: Semantic and grammatical nouns.” Seventh Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: October 15-17, 2004.
“El voseo culto de Chile: Estudio con hablantes chilenos en Bloomington, Indiana.” First Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture. Indiana University, Bloomington: February 28-29, 2004.
“Using situations and role-plays to facilitate conversation.” Foreign/Second Language Teaching Share Fair. Indiana University, Bloomington: February 20, 2004.
“Let’s play with words.” Second/Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair. Indiana University, Bloomington: November 7, 2003.
“Las dinámicas grupales: Una técnica para desarrollar la competencia lingüística y comunicativa del alumno”. Octavo Congreso de Didáctica del Español. Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis: September 27, 2003.
“The second language acquisition of grammatical gender: two pilot studies.” Brown Bag Talk Series of the Program in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Indiana University, Bloomington: September 18, 2003.
“The polysemy of the conjunction y in Spanish proverbs.” 31 st Annual (LASSO) Linguistic Association of the Southwest Conference. Los Angeles and Pasadena, California: October 4-6, 2002.
“The sequential acquisition of Spanish gender marking.” 4 th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: October 11-14, 2001.
“Percepción de la entonación en hablantes de Concepción.” X Seminario de Investigación y Enseñanza de la Lingüística. Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile: 1993.
“Medición de la competencia comunicativa en una segunda lengua: una propuesta.” Primer Encuentro sobre Evaluación de Competencias Lingüísticas en Idioma Extranjero. Universidad de Concepción, Chile: 1992.
“Sistemas de aprendizaje interactivo y adquisición de lenguas.” IX Seminario Nacional de Investigación y Enseñanza de la Lingüística. Universidad de Concepción, Chile: 1991.
“Teacher talk in the foreign language classroom: L1/L2 alternation.” Workshop at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. November 4, 2006.
Cook it up. Creativity Workshop. Wake Forest University. October 19, 2006.
Assistant Professor. Wake Forest University, Department of Romance Languages. Fall 2005 – present.
Duties: Instruction of undergraduates, content development, test writing, test administration, and grading.
Course taught: Introduction to Linguistics (Lin/Ant 150), Introduction to Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition (Lin 330), Spanish Grammar and Composition (Spa 219), Intensive Elementary Spanish (Spa 113), Elementary Spanish (Spa 111).
Visiting Lecturer . Indiana University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Fall 2003 – Spring 2005.
Duties : Instruction of undergraduates, content development, test writing, test administration, and grading.
Courses taught : Introduction to Hispanic Culture (S275), Conversation and Diction (S317), and Intermediate Spanish (S200 and S250).
Graduate Associate Instructor . Indiana University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Fall 1995 – Spring 1998; Fall 1999 – Summer 2003.
Duties: Instruction of undergraduates, test writing, test administration, material development, and grading.
Courses taught: Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (S135, S150, S200, S250, S317).
ESL Instructor . Indiana University, English Evening TESOL Program. Spring 1998.
Duties : Instruction of advanced L2 adult learners, complete responsibility for curriculum development according to learner’s needs and initial evaluation of students for placement purposes.
Taught : A 10-week ESL course.
Spanish Teacher . Valencia, Spain, Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages for High School Students. Summers 1998 – 2001.
Duties : Instruction of high school students, full responsibility for curriculum development, traveling with students, administration, exam grading, counseling, leading extra-curricular activities, such as sports, singing, and excursions, holding Spanish phonetics sessions, and evaluating students’ overall performance.
Taught : Grammar and Conversation for beginning, intermediate and advanced learners.
EFL Instructor . Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Programa de Doctorado de la Faculdad de Ciencias Biológicas. Spring 1999.
Duties : Instruction of doctoral science students, and material development.
Taught : A professional reading-comprehension course.
EFL Teacher . Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura. Concepción, Chile. Fall 1998.
Duties : Instruction of L2 adult learners.
Taught : A reading-comprehension course.
EFL Instructor . Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 1994 – 1995.
Duties : Instruction of undergraduates, full responsibility for curriculum development, test writing, test administration, and grading.
Taught : English for Specific Purposes courses to Pharmacy, Sociology, and French students.
EFL High School Teacher . Instituto de Humanidades, Concepción, Chile. 1993 – 1995.
Duties: Instruction of students at all levels, material development, lab work, exam writing and evaluating, and counseling.
Taught : EFL high school courses covering grammar, vocabulary, listening-comprehension, reading, lab-work, and translation.
EFL Teaching Assistant . Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Departmento de Lenguas Extranjeras. 1993.
Duties : Instruction of Geology and Sociology undergraduates, curriculum development, and exam preparation and grading.
Taught : English for Specific Purposes courses to Geology, and Sociology students.
EFL Teacher . Instituto Chileno-Británico de Cultura, Concepción, Chile. 1993.
Duties : Instruction of beginning learners, course design, and writing and scoring exams.
Taught : An EFL course to beginners.
EFL High School Teacher . Colegio Toquicura, Concepción, Chile. 1991.
Duties : Instruction of elementary and high school level students.
Taught : General, wide-ranging EFL courses.
EFL High School Teacher . Colegio Concepción, Concepción, Chile. 1990.
Duties : Instruction of freshmen and sophomore high school students.
Taught : EFL courses.
Recorded speaker. Spanish audiotape recordings for 31S and 32S (Third year high school Spanish), Independent Study Courses. School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Fall 2002.
Recorded speaker. Spanish audiotape recordings for S200 and S250 (Second year Spanish), Independent Study Courses. School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Summer 2001.
Recorded speaker. Spanish audiotape recordings for S100 and S150 (First year Spanish), Independent Study Courses. School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Summer 2000.
Translator. English-Spanish/Spanish-English. Conferencia Regional Preparatoria de las Naciones Unidas para UNISPACE III, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Duties included reading, translating, and typing manuscripts presented at the Conference. October 12-16, 1998.
Computer Teaching Assistant . Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje de Idiomas (CRAI), Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Taught MS-DOS and WS to students of French, German, English, and Spanish. Duties included material design, editing, test writing, test administration, and grading. 1991 - 1992.
Student Assistant. English Phonetics II. Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Duties included examining phonetics transcriptions. 1988.
Reviewer of Article submitted to Hispania, a journal devoted to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, published by the AATSP. Summer 2006.
Reviewer of Textbook Chapter submitted to the World Languages Division of Pearson Education/Prentice Hall. Summer 2006.
Reviewer of Manuscripts submitted to the Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online. 2004.
Editor, Chiricú, the international journal of Chicano-Riqueño Studies. Indiana University. 2003 – 2004.
Associate Editor, Chiricú, the international journal of Chicano-Riqueño Studies. Indiana University. 2000 – 2002.
Member of the Search Committee for a tenure-track French applied linguistics position. Fall 2005.
Member of the organizing committee for the Foreign/Second Language Teaching Share Fair, Indiana University. Spring 2003 – Spring 2005.
Volunteer. The 2 nd Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics & Phonology Conference. Indiana University. Fall 2004.
Member of the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award Committee. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University. Spring 2004.
Member of the Associate Instructor Teaching Award Committee. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University. Spring 2004.
Volunteer. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA-7). Indiana University. Spring 2004.
Volunteer. The 33 rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Indiana University. Spring 2003.
Graduate Student Representative on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC). Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University. Fall 2000 – Spring 2003.
Grammar Activities Designer. Grammar of Unit 5 for S250 (Spanish 4 th semester): on-line grammar exercises. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University. Fall 2002.
Content Developer. Proyecto Ancla S275: on-line cultural materials. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University. Spring 2000.
Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Department of Second Language Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington
(812) 855-9877
bardovi@indiana.edu
Professor Clancy Clements
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
(505) 277-7361
jcclemen@unm.edu
Professor Kimberly Geeslin
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Indiana University, Bloomington
(812) 856-5470
kgeeslin@indiana.edu
Professor Luis Dávila
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Indiana University, Bloomington
(812) 855-5257
davilal@indiana.edu