Title(s): Assistant Professor
GSE Department of Learning and Teaching &
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Education: Ph.D. City University Graduate Center, Linguistics
M.Ed. Temple University, TESOL
B.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico, English Education

Affiliations: Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Linguistic Society of the SouthWest (LASSO)
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Research interests:

1. Bilingualism: Spanish and English contact
2. Sociolinguistics: Spanish in the U.S.A.
3. Second Language Acquisition: English acquisition among adult learners
4. ESL: Methods and research

Recent publications:

• see cv