Category: News
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Scholar Profile – Javier Fernández-Agüera
A Spanish lecturer in the Languages and Applied Linguistics department, Javier Fernández-Agüera, brings a life-long passion for language combined with a heart for inclusion to the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Spanish Studies Alumni Highlight
The Spanish Studies program in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz is proud of our alumni and their accomplishments. We are starting this Alumni Spotlight as a way of highlighting those alumni who are doing great things.
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Announcing the Spanish Studies Minor
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is excited to announce that the new Spanish Studies Undergraduate Minor has been approved.
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Lain 2018-2019 CITL Faculty Fellow
Stephanie Lain, Lecturer in Spanish, selected as a 2018-2019 CITL Faculty Fellow.
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2018 Student News
Special recognition to language students Sam Knobel and Sophie Caplan, recipients of the 2018 Achim Perner award, and to Alexander Belyea and Natalie Ng, recipients of the Peter Rushton Memorial Award. Congratulations to Spanish Studies major, Rosa Sanchez, who was awarded a 2018 Koret Scholarship for her project titled Youth Identity Formation Amongst Indigenous Oaxaqueños. Of interest: “The surprising thing Google learned…
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UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory
The UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory facilitates research focused on the linguistic, social, and cognitive consequences of knowing more than one language. We are interested in how the bilingual language experience, language learning history, language dominance, proficiency levels, and cognitive factors affect the production, perception, and processing of both languages of the bilingual/multilingual individual.
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Zyzik Named to Prestigious Journal
Eve Zyzik has been named the Associate Executive Director of Language Learning.
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Rohmer Awarded Excellence in Teaching
Carine Rohmer, Lecturer in French, was honored with one of only six Excellence in Teaching Awards granted this year.
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Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism BA
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism is a major grounded in interdisciplinary studies. Students explore a variety of intriguing topics, such as: How do we learn a second language? Are there “better” ways of teaching languages? Who is a bilingual? How is language related to complex social structure and diverse social identities? What is the role of…
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Congratulations to Alvaro Romero
The Department of LAAL wishes to acknowledge Spanish Lecturer Alvaro Romero on the publication of his book.
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Peter Rushton Award Recipient Ysabel King
My time in Taipei was extraordinary. I went into it with a bit of anxiousness about living on my own and functioning in a country where I wasn’t confident in my language ability, but by the end I discovered a new confidence.
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Italian 100 – Fall 2015
Tonia Prencipe received a grant from the Italian Institute of Culture in San Francisco to partially sponsor a new course for Italian at UCSC.