Projects
Developing critical citizenship through active participation in projects focused on minority communities
Pronoun Expression in the Spanish spoken in Cartagena
Wayuunaiki-Español: Bilingüalism and Language Contact
Education
PhD in Spanish & Language Science Dual Title, Penn State
MA in Spanish Linguistics, Penn State
MA in Linguistics, Universidad del Atlántico
MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana
BA in Modern Languages, UA
Teaching
Research methodology, Universidad del Valle (2026)
Applied Linguistics, Universidad del Valle (2026)
Oral Discourse Genres, Universidad del Valle (2026)
Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Cultures in Spanish-American Linguistic Contact: Transfer, Code-Switching, Hybridization, and Convergence, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2025)
Language Studies I, Universidad del Norte (2025)
Culture & Peacebuilding, Universidad del Norte (2022-2025)
Intercultural Communication, Universidad del Norte (2021-2025)
Competencia Comunicativa II, Universidad del Norte (2021)
Portuguese I-VI, Institución Universitaria de Barranquilla (2021; 2014-2015)
Language and Society, South Dakota State University (2020)
Spanish, South Dakota State University (2019-2020)
Hispanic Linguistics, Penn State (2015-2019)
Inglés, Universidad Antonio Nariño (2007-2010)
·Torres Cacoullos, R., Lacasse, D., Johns, M. A., & De La Rosa Yacomelo J. (2017). El subjuntivo: hacia la rutinización. Moenia, 23.
·De La Rosa Yacomelo, J. (2019). Null Subjects in Palenquero: Do they really exist? International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2(4), 190-202.
De La Rosa Yacomelo, J. (2020). Sujetos nulos: tipología lingüística, adquisición y contacto de lenguas. Forma y Función.
Viloria Rodríguez, L., De La Rosa Yacomelo, J., Ramírez González, R., & García Segura, D. (2022). Pronouns in Wayuunaiki and Spanish: A Contrastive Analysis. Íkala, Revista De Lenguaje y Cultura, 27(1), 153–173. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v27n1a08
De La Rosa Yacomelo, Johan, Ramírez Rudecindo, Viloria Leonel, Valdez Wendy & Guerra-Lyons Jesús. (2023). Lexical Borrowings from Spanish to Wayuunaiki: Contact, Classification, and Motivations. Languages, 8, 1-17.
De La Rosa Yacomelo, J. & Cifuentes Mena da Silva, M. (2024). Reflexões sobre o ensino de português como língua estrangeira na Colômbia: interculturalidade, vantagens, desvantagens e desafios. Interritórios: Revista de Educación, 10 (19), 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2525-7668.2024.262032
De La Rosa Yacomelo J. & Ramírez R. (2024). Migración y contacto de lenguas: La movilidad de los indígenas wayuu al centro urbano en La Guajira. Indiana: Anthropological Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean, 41 (1), 273-294.
Guerra-Lyons J., De La Rosa Yacomelo J., & Villanueva-Niebles E. (2024). Dynamism and participant identification in the discursive construction of the American nation. Culture, Language, and Representation, 33, 135-155.
Blanchette, F., De La Rosa Yacomelo, J., Eads, A., Lai, L.-F., Harman, A., & Hunt, L. (2025). The Pennsylvania English Final Rise-Fall: Intonation, Pragmatics, and Regional Variation. Journal of English Linguistics, 53(1), 63-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242241311619
Ramírez González, R. & De La Rosa Yacomelo J. (2025). Nuclear arguments and their alignment system in Wayuunaiki. Literatura y Lingüística, 51, 311-335.
Valdez Jiménez, W., Díaz Pérez, M., Pulgarín Rivera, J. D., & De La Rosa Yacomelo, J. (2025). Lexical Availability Among Young Palenquero Creole Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. Íkala, Revista De Lenguaje Y Cultura, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361079.
Oliveros, I., De La Rosa Yacomelo, J., Harris Bonet, P., Soto, J., Campo, Ó. D., Cancino-Borbón, A., Arango Manrique, A., Robles Noriega, H., & Villalba, K. (2025). Using culturally relevant narratives to teach electrical risk management in schools: A case study from the Colombian Caribbean. In 2025 IEEE Colombian Caribbean Conference (C3) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/C366505.2025.11340341
De La Rosa Yacomelo, J., & Céspedes Guevara, N. Y. (2026). Intercultural communicative competence in foreign language learning books: an instrument for its assessment. Lenguas Modernas, (66), 37–63.
Guerra-Lyons, J. D., Concu, V., & De La Rosa Yacomelo, J. A. (2026). Not all it seems are the same: A systemic functional and pragmatic approach to evidentiality and mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics, 255, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.007
Redondo Insignares, W., & De la Rosa Yacomelo, J. (2026). Avances y Tendencias en la Educación Para la Paz: Una Revisión Sistemática. Pensamiento Educativo, Revista De Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana, 63(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.7764/PEL.63.1.2026.7
Contact me: johan.delarosa@correounivalle.edu.co