Our program has four core faculty members who conduct an active research agenda in several areas of Hispanic linguistics, including bilingualism, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and teaching, heritage language acquisition and teaching, and research methodology. For details on our projects, we invite you to visit our personal websites.
Professor (Ph.D., University of Arizona)
Director, School of International Letters and Cultures
Email: Sara.Beaudrie@asu.edu
Research Areas: heritage languages (instruction, assessment, development), language program development, bilingualism
Courses Regularly Taught: bilingualism, heritage language pedagogy, applied Spanish linguistics
Webpages: Google Scholar, Research Gate
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Southern California)
Faculty Head, Spanish and Portuguese, School of International Letters and Cultures
Email: Alvaro.Cerron-Palomino@asu.edu
Research Areas: variationist sociolinguistics, morphosyntactic variation, dialectology, historical linguistics
Courses Regularly Taught: sociolinguistics, Spanish in the Southwest, Spanish around the world
Webpages: Google Scholar, Research Gate
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Indiana University)
Associate Director of Administration, School of International Letters and Cultures
Graduate Adviser, Spanish Linguistics
Email: Michael.Gradoville@asu.edu
Research Areas: usage-based linguistics, phonology, sociophonetics, corpus linguistics, quantitative research methodology, language variation and change, Spanish, Portuguese
Courses Regularly Taught: research methods for linguistics, Spanish phonology, the sounds of Spanish, fundamentals of Spanish linguistics
Webpages: Google Scholar, Research Gate
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Iowa)
Email: Marta.Tecedor@asu.edu
Research Areas: computer assisted language learning, instructor training, curriculum development, second language acquisition
Courses Regularly Taught: Spanish second language acquisition, online learning, applied Spanish linguistics
Webpages: Google Scholar, Research Gate