Education

2002 Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York (Linguistics)
1974 M.Ed., Temple University, Philadelphia (ESL/Education)
1971 BA. Ed., University of Puerto Rico (English as a second language for elementary and secondary education)

Employment History

Fall 2004-present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Department of Learning and Teaching & School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. (Entered tenure stream July 2004).
Spring 2004 Part-time Lecturer Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking World/ SAS/Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University
2003 Taught ESL Practicum supervision, Fordham University
1992-2004 Director ESL Resource Center and adjunct lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York and adjunct teaching
1985-87 Technical Assistant, Bureau of Bilingual Education, New York State Education Department
1987-92 Adjunct Education Courses and ESL at: The New School University, Columbia University, Hunter College, and City College
1978-85 Director and adjunct lecturer, Instituto Multilingüe y Cultural, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
1977-78 Instructor, ESL, Colegio Universitario del Turabo, Puerto Rico
1974-77 Bilingual Education Specialist, Pennsylvania State Education Department, Monitored Bilingual Programs
1971-74 Academic advisor, Temple University, Supervised undergraduate studies for language minorities
1968-71 Academia Sta. Monica Elementary school, EFL teacher

Research Interests
Sociolinguist that specializes in Spanish in the U.S.A., Bilingualism, and Teaching English as a Second Language Methodology, Second Language Acquisition

My line of inquiry explores two interrelated avenues in the field of sociolinguistics: language in society and language education. In sociolinguistics I prepare language teachers and practitioners to better understand how languages are used in a speech community and, how language use should guide practices. This perspective views language as a social phenomenon, not an individual possession. Language in society addresses the ways in which sociolinguistic research can speak to practitioners. This avenue examines more discrete linguistic features and attempts to identify changes in language use which emerge as a consequence of external and linguistic variables. As a sociolinguist, teacher educator, and researcher, my work has concentrated on examining the use of Spanish among native and heritage bilingual speakers with the aim of speaking to not only teacher educators and linguists, but to the field of sociolinguistics.

Publications

Books

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2002) A sociolinguistic perspective on the use of subject personal pronouns in Spanish narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Munich: Lincom-Europa.

(2007) Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, J. Camacho, V. Depréz, N. Flores-Ferrán, L. Sanchez, M.J. Cabrera (Eds.). Philadephia: Benjamins; pps. 325).

Refereed Chapters in books

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007). Los Mexicanos in New Jersey: Pronominal expression and ethnolinguistic aspects for Cascadilla Press.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007). Is the past really the past: Narrative discourse and verb tense production. Spanish in Contact: Educational, Linguistic, and Social Inquiries. In R. Cameron and K. Potowski, (Eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2005). “La expresión del pronombre personal sujeto en narrativas orales de puertoriqueños en Nueva York", in: Luis A. Ortiz & López, Manel Lacorte (Eds.): Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2005, pp. 119-129. [Translation: The expression of personal subject pronouns in oral narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York. In text: Contact and Linguistic Contexts: Spanish in the United States and in Contact with Other Languages].

Journal Articles

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007) http://www.blackwell-compass.com/home_linco_compass , Linguistics and Language Compass: A Bend in the Road: Pronominal expression in Spanish after 30 years of sociolinguistic research. 

Flores-Ferrán, N. (in press Dec 2007). La expresión del sujeto en el español de Nueva York: el factor de la perseverancia. International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 36/2. [Translated: Subject expression in New York Spanish: the factor of perseverance]

Cameron, R., & Flores-Ferrán, N. (2004). Perseverance of subject expression across regional dialects. Spanish in Context Vol. 1, 1. 41-65.  (pp. 41-65)

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2004). Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans: Can we rest the case of English contact? Language Variation and Change 16, 49-73.

Flores, N. & Toro, J. (2000). The persistence of dialect features under conditions of contact and leveling, The Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 19 (2), 31-42.

Reviews:

Flores-Ferrán, N.(2008) Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling. McCarty, T. (2006). Ed. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. In the International Journal of Bilngual Education and Bilingualism, 10, 6.

Features:

Flores-Ferrán, N. And what about our English Language Learners? In J. Rowsell (Ed.) Family Literacy Experiences: Creating reading and writing opportunities that support classroom leanring. Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers (p.45)

Submitted for publication

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2008-09) “Indefiniteness or speaker intentionality: UNO and YO”. (Under review)
Flores-Ferrán, N. (2008-09)  “Referring expressions, discourse strategies, and dialect variation in Spanish switch referents contexts”. (Under review)

(in progress) Flores-Ferrán, N.  “One shoe does not fit all: An examination of Mexicano family language practices in a small city in New Jersey, U.S.A.”

(in progress manuscript) Flores-Ferrán, N. “There is no mainstream in linguistically responsive teaching”.

Conferences

Flores, N. May, 2007, International Conference on Bilingualism (ISB 6). University of Hamburg, Germany. On "Who said that, when, where, and how: The ¿Quién dijo qué? Connection, A look at how bilinguals and monolinguals switch subject referents in oral narratives".

Flores, N., March 2007, XXI Conference on Spanish in the USA & VI Conference Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. George Mason University, on “Mexicanos in New Jersey: The State of Spanish in New Brunswick”.

Flores, N., June 2006, Two presentations: Segunda Jornada de Español como Segunda Lengua [Second Symposium on "Spanish as a Second Language on Ethnographic" and "Sociolinguistic findings on Mexicanos in New Jersey and Verb Tense Production in Oral Narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City". Universidad Nacional del Rosario, Argentina.

Flores, N., June 2006, Provided 3-hour seminar to graduate teachers of English and linguistics from Universidad del Centro Educativo Latino Americano, Rosario, Argentina on "Comparisons between bilinguals and monolingual verb tense usage in oral narratives".

Flores, N., July 2006, Sociolinguistics Symposium16, University of Limerick, Ireland, on "Verb tense and narratives of Mexicans in Central New Jersey and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers of NYC".

Flores, N., April 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, On "Verb tense and narratives of Mexicans in Central New Jersey and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers of NYC".

Flores, N., April 2006 3rd International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, on "Linguistic analysis on Ethnolinguistic vitality of Mexicans in New Brunswick, New Jersey".

Flores, N., April 2006 Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages (LSRL), Rutgers University, Co-chair of conference.

Flores, N., November 2005 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Penn State University. Chair for session.

Flores, N., October 2005 New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) at New York University. On "Narratives and the verbal paradigm of bilingual speakers".

Flores, N., April 2005 Penn State University Colloquium. On "Style and narrative grammar of bilingual speakers: Tense, Mood, and Aspect".

Flores, N., April 2005 International Society for Language Studies in Montreal, Canada on "style, structure, and verbs tense and aspect in oral narratives of bilinguals".

Flores, N., March 2005 International Conference on Spanish in the United States in combination with the International Conference on Spanish in Contact, University of Illinois, Chicago, on "Spanish Narratives of Puerto Ricans in NYC: A sociolinguistic perspective on narrative style and structure and verb use of bilingual adults".

Flores, N., March 2005 International Symposium on Bilingualism, in Barcelona, Spain, on "Spanish Narratives of Puerto Ricans in NYC: A sociolinguistic perspective on narratives, subject pronoun usage, verb tense and aspect and style".

Flores, N., September 2004 European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), September 9th, in Zaragoza, Spain, on "Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans: Can we rest the case of English contact?"

Flores, N., September 2004 Department of Education, D.C. Title V, "ESL students and On-line instruction".

Flores, N., & Cameron, R. October 2003 at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Stanford University. On "Priming Effects and Pronominal Usage".

Flores, N., April 2002 Spanish and English Contact: Variable expression of subject pronouns: U.S., Spanish in the Caribbean: University of Puerto Rico.

Flores, N., October 2001 On pronominal expression: Linguistic Association of the Southwest, LASSO, University of New Mexico.

Flores, N., February 1998 Linguistic and Social Factors and the Use of Subject Pronouns: Spanish in the U.S. University of New Mexico.