Lourdes

My blogs

Introduction	My experience teaching languages spans 10 years in adult classrooms -- both Spanish as a foreign language and English as a second language. For another decade now, I have been conducting research on second language learning and teaching graduate courses in applied linguistics in the United States.
Interests	L2 instruction that fosters explicit and implicit grammar learning through tasks, The longitudinal study of language and literacy development, Second language writing and multicompetence, The use of research methods in applied linguistics (particularly research synthesis and meta-analysis), Technology and language learning (particularly computer-mediated communication), The relationship between language minority education and foreign language education
Favorite Movies	Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938), Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Pedro Almodovar, 1988), Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006)
Favorite Music	Greek music, particularly Eleftheria Arvanitaki and Nikos Papazoglou.
Favorite Books	Rayuela, by Cortazar (titled Hopscotch in English, published in 1963).