CV Robert Blake

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VITA
ROBERT J. BLAKE
Born March 6, 1951
Education
Ph.D., 1980
University of Texas, Austin
Major: Hispanic Linguistics
Dissertation: "The Acquisition of Complex
Sentences among Native Spanish-Speaking
Children from Ages 4-10"
Supervisor: Yolanda Solé
M.A., 1974
Middlebury College
Major: Spanish Literature
B.A., 1973
U.C.L.A.
Major:
Spanish
Minor:
Economics
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Professor VIII
Professor VII
Professor VI
Founding Director
Director
Professor
Co-chair,
Professor
Professor
V
Spanish
IV
III
Professor II & chair
Invited Professor
Associate Professor IV
Language Program Director
Mercer Brugler Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor &
Language Coordinator
Computer Seminar
Language Coordinator
University of California, Davis, 2013
University of California, Davis, 2010
University of California, Davis, 2008
UC Consortium for Language Learning &
Teaching, 2000-2012
UC Davis Second Language Acquisition
Institute, 1997-2000
University of California, Davis, 2003-2008
University of California, Davis, 2001-2003
University of California, Davis, July 2000
University of California, Davis, 1997-2000
Department of Spanish & Classics
University of California, Davis, 1994-1997
Department of Spanish & Classics
UCSB Hispanic Institute, summers 1996,1997
University of California, Davis, 1992-1994
Department of Spanish & Classics
University of California, Davis, 1992present
Department of Spanish & Classics
University of Rochester, 1989-1991 (3-yr
chair)
University of Rochester, 1987Department of Foreign Language, Literatures,
& Linguistics
University of Rochester, 1985-1987
Department of Foreign Language, Literatures,
& Linguistics
Dartmouth College, 1980-85
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Middlebury College, the summer of 1987-1995
Middlebury College, the summers of 1982/1983
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Teaching Competencies
Hispanic linguistics
Spanish syntax
History of the Spanish language
Applied linguistics for Spanish
General linguistics
Introductory courses in linguistics
Introduction to syntactic analysis
SLA theory
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism and Code-Switching
Technology
Technology and L2 Learning
Research Interests
Second-Language
Acquisition
Language processing/reading using CALL
materials; distance learning
Language change
Variation theory as applied to the
historical development of the Spanish
language
Publications
Articles
1.
(1982). Some Empirically based Observations on Adult Usage
of the Subjunctive Mood in Mexico City. Current Research in
Romance Languages: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual
Symposium on Romance Languages. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Linguistics Club. 13-22.
2.
(1983) Mood Selection among Spanish-Speaking Children, Ages
4 to 12. Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, 10: 21-32.
3.
(1987) El uso del subjuntivo con cláusulas nominales: ¿regla
obligatoria o variable? In Humberto López Morales y María
Vaquero (eds.) Actas del primer congreso internacional sobre
el español de América (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982), San
Juan, Puerto Rico: La Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua
Española, 351-360.
4.
(1985). From Research to the Classroom:
Subjunctive. Hispania, 68: 166-73.
5.
(1985). El planeamiento lingüístico en el Perú:
antecedentes de la oficialización del quechua del 1975.
Ideologies & Literature, Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. Series 9, 51-73.
6.
(1985).
11-15.
CALL for the Macintosh.
Notes on the
The CALICO Journal, 3(1):
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7.
(1986). Scribal Worries and Medieval Sound Changes. In
Carol Neidle and Rafael A. Nuñez-Cedeño (eds.) Studies in
Romance Languages. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.
8.
(1987). New Linguistic Sources for Old Spanish. Hispanic
Review, 55(1):1-12.
9.
(1987). CALL and the Language Lab of the Future.
Bulletin, 18(2):25-29.
10.
(1987). Is to/a the head of S?: I don't want to decidir la
cuestión but I'm going to, Keith Denning et. al. (eds.)
Variation in Language: NWAV-XV15 at Stanford, Stanford,
CA:Stanford Linguistics Department. 22-34.
11.
(1988). Ffaro, Faro, Haro?: 'F' Doubling as a Source of
Linguistic Information for the Early Middle Ages. Romance
Philology, 41(3):267-289.
12.
(1988). Aproximaciones nuevas al fenómeno [f] > [h] > [Ø].
Las actas del I Congreso Internacional sobre la Historia de
la Lengua Española, Vol. I, Madrid: Editorial ARCO/LIBROS,
pp. 71-82.
13.
(1989). "Radiografía de un cambio lingüístico." Revista de
Filología Española, 69(1-2):39-59.
14.
(1989). Sound Change and Linguistic Residue: The Case of f >
h > Ø." In Thomas Walsh (ed.) GURT '88: Synchronic and
Diachronic Approaches to Linguistic Variation and Change.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, pp. 53-62.
15.
(1989). "CALL in the Extended Foreign-Language Classroom."
Language Teaching Strategies, 4:13-21, Toronto: University
of Toronto.
16.
(1991). La adquisición del subjuntivo: intersticio entre la
sintaxis y la pragmática. In Humberto López Morales (ed.) La
enseñanza del español como lengua materna, Río Piedras,
Puerto Rico: Editorial U. de Puerto Rico, pp. 231-242.
17.
(1991). Syntactic Aspects of Latinate Texts of the Early
Middle Ages. Roger Wright (ed.) Latin and the Romance
Languages in the Early Middle Ages, London: Croom Helm
Series, Routledge, 1990. 219-32.
18.
(1991). Squeezing the Turnip Dry: Latinate documents from
the Early Middle Ages. In Ray Harris-Northall and Thomas D.
Cravens (eds.), Linguistic Studies in Medieval Spanish,
Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, pp. 1-14.
19.
(1992). Reading in L2 on the computer: the case of
Recuerdos de Madrid. ADFL Bulletin, 24(1): 17-22.
20.
(1992). Aspectos sintácticos del español antiguo: La prosa
latinizada del Cartulario de San Millán de la Cogolla. Actas
ADFL
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del II Congreso de la Asociación de la Historia de la Lengua
Española. Pabellón de España: Madrid. 291-305.
21.
(1993). The Role of Syntax in Tracing the Development of Old
Spanish. Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages
(in series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103).
Amsterdam/Philadelphia:John Benjamins. 363-375.
22.
(1995). El latín notarial de un escriba bilingüe o bígrafo
del XIII. Actas del primero congreso del latín medieval.
Universidad de León. 463-468.
23.
(1994, February). La enseñanza del español a través de la
computadora. Revista de Estudios de Adquisición de la lengua
española. 15-24.
24.
(1998). The Role of Technology in Second Language Learning.
In Heidi Byrnes (ed.) Learning Foreign and Second Languages:
Perspectives in Research and Scholarship. New York: The
Modern Language Association. 209-237.
25.
(1998) Nuevos Destinos: Constructing a CD-ROM interface for
Teaching Spanish. In Keith Cameron (Ed.) Multimedia CALL:
Theory and Practice. Exeter: Elm Bank. 303-307
26.
(1998). Las Glosas de San Millán y de Silos en su contexto
sociolingüístico. In García Turza, Claudio; González
Bachiller, Fabián; Mangado Martínez, Javier (eds.), Actas del
IV Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española,
vol II. Logroño, Universidad de La Rioja. 925-932.
27.
(1999) co-authored with David Fahy and Dick Walters.
Implementing Chat Software in the Foreign-Language
Curriculum: The Case of RTA. In David Brown (ed.)
Interactive Learning : Vignettes from America's Most Wired
Campuses, Bolton, MA : Anker Pub. Co., 254-257.
28.
(1999). Nuevos Destinos: A CD-ROM for Advanced Beginning
Spanish. The CALICO Journal, 17(1): 9-24.
29.
(1999). Walters, R.F., Douglas, B.B., Blake, R.J. and D.W.
Fahy. Interactive Tools Aid Language Acquisition.
Multilingual Computing & Technology, 11(1):35-39.
30.
(1999 [2001]). co-authored with Adam Karp, Jill Pellettieri,
and Eva Barela. La evaluación de la comunicación sincrónica
por Internet: el caso RTA, un programa de chat. REALE, 11:
9-22.
31.
(May, 2000). Computer Mediated Communication: A Window on
Interlanguage. Language Learning & Technology, 4(1):120-136.
32.
(2001). What Language Professionals Need to Know about
Technology. Chairing the Foreign Language and Literature
Department, Part 2, A special issue of the ADFL Bulletin,
32(3): 245-266.
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33.
(2001). La enseñanza de ELE en el suroeste de los EE.UU. II
Congreso Internacional de la lengua española. December 2001
<http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/ponencias
/activo_del_espanol/1_la_industria_del_espanol/blake_r.htm>
33.
(2000) co-authored with Máximo Torreblanca. La apócope de la
-e en la época medieval. Actas del V Congreso de la
Asociación de la Historia de la Lengua Española. Valencia:
Editorial U Valencia.
34.
(2003). Co-authored with Eve Zyzik. Who's Helping Whom?:
NNS/NS Networked Conversations. Applied Linguistics,
24(4):519-544.
35.
(2003). El desarrollo de vocabulario en una segunda lengua a
través del ordenador. In F. M. Fernández et al. (eds.)
Lengua, Variación y contexto: Estudios dedicados a Humberto
López Morales Vol. I, Madrid: Editorial Arco Libros. 157-165.
36.
(2004). La tecnología en la enseñanza del español. Glosas:
Boletín de la Academia Norteamericana de la lengua española
5(1):1-3.
37.
(2004). Sobre las vocales e y o en la documentación leonesa
del siglo XIII. José Ma Fernández Catón (ed.) Orígenes de
las lenguas romances en el reino de León: siglos IX-XII.
León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación San Isidro, Caja
España de Inversiones, Archivo Histórico Diocesano. 543-553.
38.
(2005). The Pronunciation of h- and f- in Bilingual
Spanish/Arabic Treaties from the 13th Century. In Roger Wright
(ed.), Studies on Ibero-Romance Linguistics Dedicated to
Ralph Penny. London: Támesis, 75-83
39.
(2005). Bimodal CMC: The Glue of Language Learning at a
Distance. The CALICO Journal, 22(3):497-512.
40.
(2006). Two heads are better than one: CMC and the L2
curriculum. In Randall Donaldson and Margaret A. Haggstrom
(eds). Changing Language Education Through CALL. Lisse:
Swets and Zeitlinger. 229-248.
41.
(2005). Language Learning at a Distance: Spanish Without
Walls. In I. Thompson, I., & D. Hiple (eds.). Selected
papers from the 2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education,
Distributed Learning and Language Instruction (NetWork#44)
[HTML document]. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, National
Foreign Language Resource Center.
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/NetWorks/NW44.
42.
(2007). Co-authored with Ann Delforge. Online Language
Learning: The Case of Spanish Without Walls. In B. Lafford
& R. Salaberry (eds.) The Art of Teaching Spanish: Second
Language Acquisition from Research to Praxis:. Georgetown
University Press. 127-147. (expansion of #41)
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43.
(2007). Perspectives Volume: National language educational
policy. Modern Language Journal. Introduction and coedition with Claire Kramsch. 247-283.
44.
(2008). Durmió, puedo, era, sepa …: ¡¿Por qué hay tantos
verbos irregulars?! In J. Ewald & A. Edstrom (eds.) El
español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas.
Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 168-175.
45.
(2009). From Web Pages to distance Learning: Technology in
the Foreign-Language Curriculum. Teaching Literature and
Language Online, (Options in Teaching Series). New York:
MLA Press. 23-37.
46.
(2008) Distance Learning for Second and Foreign Language
Teaching. In N. Van Deusen-Scholl and N. H. Hornberger
(eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Second and
Foreign Language Education, Vol. 4. New York: Springer, 365376.
47.
(2008) co-authored with Gina Lee. PLACUIT MITI VONO ANIMO:
Curiosidades ortográficas de un notario leonés del IX. In C.
Company Company and J. Moreno de Alba (Eds.), Actas del VII
Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, 2
vols., Madrid: Arco Libros. 239-244.
48.
(2008). New Trends in Using Technology in the ForeignLanguage Curriculum. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics,
27, 76-97.
49.
(2008). co-authored with Nicole Wilson, Cristina Pardo
Ballester, and María Cetto. Measuring Oral Proficiency in
Distance, Face-to-Face, and Blended Classrooms. Language
Learning and Technology, 12(3), 114-127.
<http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num3/blakeetal/>.
50.
(2009). co-authored with G. Lee, MOCA: análisis de corpus en
línea en un contexto histórico. In A. Enrique-Arias (ed.),
Diacronía de las lenguas iberorromances: nuevas perspectivas
desde la lingüística de corpus. Frankfurt/Madrid:
Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 329-343.
51.
(2010). The Use of Technology for Second Language Distance
Learning. Modern Language Journal, 93(5), 822-837.
52.
(Forthcoming). La grafemática del cartulario de Valpuesta y
el continuo lingüístico. Actas del Congreso de Valpuesta en
sus orígenes. Burgos: Fundación de la Fundación Instituto
Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua, Burgos.
53.
(Forthcoming). El desarrollo del español desde los orígenes
hacia la época colonial: un análisis digital de corpus.
Actas del primer congreso sobre el español colonial. UNAM
54.
(2012). Co-authored with Omar Velázquez. Orígenes primitivos
de la a personal. Actas del 8o Congreso de la Asociación de
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la Historia de la Lengua Española.
683-694.
Santiago de Compostela.
55.
(2011). Current Trends in Online Language Learning.
Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 31: 19-35.
Annual
56.
(2010). Co-authored with Omar Velázquez. Temprana marcación
acusativa en el hispanorromance. In special issue of Romance
Philology in Memory of Ray Harris-Northall, 64(2):285-294.
57.
(2013). Language learning and technology. Byram, M. and Hu,
A. (eds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and
Learning. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. 712-715.
58.
(2012). co-authored with Carlos Sanchez Lancis. De los sos oios
tan fuerte mientre lorando: Un cambio sintáctico examinado a
través de un corpus digitalizado. Scriptum Digital, 1, 137-161.
http://scriptumdigital.org/numeros.php?opt=act&lang=es
59.
(2011). Homo ludens, los vídeojuegos y las TIC. Actas del IV
congreso de FIAPE IV: La enseñanza del español en un mundo
intercultural. Jornadas pedagógicas". Santiago de Campostela,
Spain. http://www.anpenorge.no/fiape/IVcongreso/actas.html
60.
(2012) co-authored with Sonia Shiri. Online Arabic Language
Learning: What Happens After? L2 Journal, 4: 230-246.
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bf3r8g1
61.
(2013). co-authored with Cecilia Colombi. La enseñanza del
español para hispanohablantes: Un currículum universitario. In
D. Dumitrescu (ed.).
El español en Estados Unidos: ‘E pluribus
unum’? Enfoques multidisciplinarios. New York: Academia
Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.
62.
(2012). Best Practices in Online Learning: Is it for everyone?
In F. Rubio, F. & J. Thoms (eds) Hybrid Language Teaching and
Learning: Exploring Theoretical, Pedagogical and Curricular
Issues. Boston: Cengage/Heinle. 10-26.
63.
(2012). co-authored with Kelly Arispe.
Successful Learning in a Hybrid Course.
449-465.
Individual Factors and
System Journal, 40 (3):
Books
1.
(1989) Al corriente: curso intermedio del español, 1st ed.
co-authored with Martha Marks. San Francisco: McGraw Hill
and Random House, Inc.
2.
(1993) Al corriente: curso intermedio del español, 2nd ed.,
co-authored with Martha Marks. San Francisco: McGraw Hill,
Inc.
3.
(1998) Al corriente: curso intermedio del español, 3rd ed.,
co-authored with Alicia Ramos and Martha Marks. San
Francisco: McGraw Hill, Inc.
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4.
(1999). Essays in Hispanic Linguistics Dedicated to Paul M.
Lloyd. co-edited book with Diana Ranson and Roger Wright.
Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta.
5.
(2001). Tesoros: Multimedia Introductory Spanish.
authored with Javier Blasco. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
6.
(2003) Al corriente: curso intermedio del español, 4th ed.,
co-authored with María Victoria González Pagani. San
Francisco: McGraw Hill, Inc.
7.
(2001). Co-authored with Derrin Pinto. (Workbook)
Workbook/Lab Manual to accompany Tesoros, A Multimedia-Based
Course. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
8.
(2003). co-authored with M. Victoria González Pagani.
(Workbook) Al corriente Workbook/Lab Manual. San Francisco:
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
9.
(2008). New Digital Classrooms: Technology and ForeignLanguage Learning. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University
Press.
co-
10. (2013). New Digital Classrooms: Technology and ForeignLanguage Learning, 2nd Edition. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press.
Software
1.
(1991 [1989]). HyperCALL: HyperCard Computer-Assisted
Language Learning (version 2.0): Foreign-language authoring
stack for the MacIntosh. Santa Barbara, Ca.: Intellimation.
2.
(1991). Recuerdos de Madrid: A computer adventure for
beginning and intermediate Spanish. D.C. Heath and Company,
Lexington, MA.
3.
(1998) Nuevos destinos, a CD-ROM for learning Spanish.
Academic.
4.
(2001). TESOROS CD-ROM, Introductory Spanish Course.
Blake, Javier Blasco & César Hernández (co-authors).
Valladolid, Spain & San Francisco: Boecillo Editora
Multimedia & McGraw-Hill, Inc.
5.
(2008). Tesoros Online.
with Javier Blasco.
6.
Arabic Encounters. Courseware for Advanced Arabic. Robert
Blake, PI. NSEP grant. http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/arabic.
Boecillo, Spain:
BeM.
Chief
Robert
co-authored
Reviews
1.
(1985). Review of Tabery, Julia Jordán, and Marion Railsback
Webb, Español en la comunidad. Hispania, 68: 83-85.
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2.
(1985). Review of Roger Wright, Late Latin and Early Romance
in Spain and Carolingian France. Hispanic Linguistics, 2(1):
161-66.
3.
(1986). A Response to 'Foreign Language Skills: Needs and
Resources in an Intelligence Agency…. The Defense Language
Institute and the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
4.
(1987). Review of Stephen Dworkin, Etymology and
Derivational Morphology: The Genesis of Old Spanish
Denominal Adjectives in -ido. Hispanic Review, 55(2): 22124.
5.
(1990). Reseña de Paul Lloyd, From Latin to Spanish:
Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Spanish Language
(Vol. I). Lingúística (publicación de ALFAL), 1(1):226-35.
6.
(1990). Book Notice for Violeta Demonte & Marina Fernández
Lagunilla (eds.), Sintaxis de las lenguas románicas.
Language, 66(4):864-65.
7.
(1991). Book Notice for Angela Labarca and Leslie M. Bailey
(eds.) Issues in L2: Theory as Practice/Practice as Theory,
Language. Language, 67(2):409-10.
8.
(1993). Review of Ralph Penny, A History of the Spanish
Language. Hispanic Review, 61(4):547-550.
9.
(2000). Review of Roberto's Restaurant CD-ROM."
Learning & Technology. Vol 4, No. 2, 000.
Language
10. (April 2002). Review of Ralph Penny, Variation and Change in
Spanish. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 79(2): 243-244.
11. (September 2004). Review of Live Action Spanish
Interactive.” Language Learning & Technology 8(3): 40-43.
12. (2005). Review of Wimba: Voice Management System 4.0. Jack
Burston (ed.) Digital Language Lab Solutions: An Evaluation
of Virtual Lab Programs. IALLT, 63-75.
13. (2007). Updated Review of Wimba: Voice Management System
4.0. In Jack Burston (ed.) Digital Language Lab Solutions:
An Evaluation of Virtual Lab Programs. IALLT, 63-75.
Invited Lectures
May 21-24, 2013
CALICO 2013
“L2 Vocabulary Growth With CALL,” CALICO
CALICO 2013, University of Hawai’I, Manoa
September 10-14, 2012,
CIHLE IX
“Rasgos sintácticos romances en la
documentación del Alto Medievo” with Carlos
Sanchez Lancis, IX Congreso Internacional de
la Historia de la Lengua Española in Cadiz,
Spain
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April 20-21, 2012,
UCSC
“Arabic Vocabulary Learning” with Shayma
Houssana, UC Consortium for Language
Learning & Teaching, 6th Biennial Conference
on SLA Theoretical and Pedagogical
Perspectives
February 17-18, 2012,
ASU
“Is Distance Language Learning for
Everybody?,” Plenary talk at Arizona State
Univeristy Annual Conference on Spanish,
Tempe, AZ
October 28, 2011,
UIowa
“What do Games have to Teach us about
Language Learning,” Jim Pusuak Memorial
Lecture, Dept. of Foreign Languages, UIowa
April 17-20, 2011,
FIAPE IV
“Las TIC y ELE,” Plenary talk at FIAPE IV,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
June 10-13, 2010
CALICO Conference
“Homo Ludens: New Ways of Learning and New
Paths for CALL.” Plenary talk at CALICO,
Amherst College, MA.
June 30-July 2, 2010
“El uso del ordenador para la comunidad
ELE.”
Plenary Talk at COMUNIDAD ELE, Salamanca,
Spain.
Salamanca, Spain
April 15-17, 2010
Lexington, Kentucky
“Orígenes de la a personal.”
Foreign Language Conference
March 11-14, 2009
Arizona State U, Tempe
“Trimodal chatting in distance learning
courses.” CALICO 09.
December 27-30, 2009
MLA, San Francisco
“Commonalities among L2 and Heritage
students,” Special interest in language
change
September 10-15, 2008
UNAM, Mexico
“Análisis de corpus para la historia de la
lengua,” I Coloquio del español colonial,
UNAM
October 15-20, 2007
U. de Majorca, Spain
“MOCA: una aplicación de análisis de
corpus para la diacronía,” Universidad de
Majorca, Las Palmas
February 21-23, 2007
IPES, Washington, D.C.
“Distance Learning for Languages,” DOE’s
Title VI Directors’ Meeting
September 4-8, 2006
Mérida, México
“Particularidades de textos medievales
leoneses, Asoc. de la Historia de Lengua
Española
June 8-10, 2006
Encuentro Cristóbal Villalón, “La enseñanza
a
distancia”
Univ. de Valladolid
Kentucky
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June 17-20, 2006
AAAL, Montreal
“Evaluation Oral Proficiency of Distance
Language Learners.”
May 20-25, 2004
CALICO, UHawaii, Manoa
“Arabic Without Walls,”
October 24-27, 2003
NLRC at UH at Manoa
“Distance Learning for Languages,”
Universidad de León
“La diptongación en León durante la Edad
Media.”
October 11-13, 2002
UPENN, P.A.
“The Classroom vs. the Virtual Course”.
Invited talk at the East Coast Language
Consortium, “Version 2.0, Foreign Language
Collaborations and the Web”. UPENN, P.A.
September 26-29, 2002
CUNY Graduate Center, NY
“La enseñanza del español en los EE.UU”.
Invited talk at the a Symposium sponsored by
CUNY Graduate Center, El Instituto
Cervantes, and the Government of Castile and
Leon.
March 8, 2002
UC Irvine
“Two Heads Better Than One: On-Line L2
Chatting and Vocabulary Growth,” talk at the
UC Language Consortium Conference on SLA
Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives.
UC Irvine
February 7, 2002
UCLA
“Technology and the Foreign Language
Curriculum”, invited talk at UCLA
October 16-19, 2001
Valladolid, Spain
“La industria de E/LE en el suroeste,”
invited talk at the II Congreso de Español,
Valladolid, Spain
April 30, 2001
Stanford University
“Language Negotiation over the Web,” invited
talk at Stanford University
April 12, 2001
Duke University
“Baker’s Dozen Teleconference on Technology
and Language Teaching,” invited speaker,
Duke University, Washington & Lee
University, and the Culpeper Foundation.
March 15-17, 2001
C. Florida University
“Spanish without Walls,” at CALICO 2001,
Central Florida University.
Feb 24-28, 2001
AAAL
"Heritage/NNS Networked Negotiations: a
Conversational Analysis." AAAL, St. Louis.
January 19, 2001
UCLA
“The UC Language Consortium and Heritage
Language Instruction,” invited talk at the
UCLA conference on Heritage Language
Programs. UCLA.
November 16-19, 2000
ACTFL
"Tesoros CD-ROM."
ACTFL 2000.
Boston, MA
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September 1-4, 2000
EUROCALL, Scotland
"L2 Vocabulary Development within an
Interactionist Framework." Paper coauthored with Viqui González Pagani at
EUROCALL 2000. Dundee, Scotland
August 22, 2000
DLI, Monterey, CA
"Putting it all together: CD-ROM, Chat, and
Web database for Distance Learning."
Keynote address at the Defense Language
Institute's Second Annual Language
Conference. Monterey, CA.
May 6, 2000
Georgetown University
"Networked Exchanges as a Way to Study
Interlanguage." GURT, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C..
April 6-8, 2000
UC Davis, CA
"Who's Helping whom?: NNS/NS Networked
Conversations." Paper given at the Spanish
in the U.S. Conference. UC Davis, CA.
February 1-6, 2000
"La apócope de la -e en la época medieval,"
V Congreso de la Asociación de la Historia
de la lengua española. University of
Valencia, Valencia, Spain
February 7 & 8, 2000
U. de Salamanca
Guest Lecturer. University of Salamanca,
Masters of ELE program. University of
Salamanca, Spain
October 8-10, 1999
Georgetown University
“Computer Mediated Communication: A Window
on Interlanguage.” Georgetown University.
March 21-24, 1999
U. de Salamanca, Spain
Guest Lecturer. University of Salamanca,
Masters of ELE program. Salamanca, Spain
March 6-10, 1999
Stamford, CT
“Using Chat programs to Analyze
learner/learner Discourse.” Stamford,
Connecticut, American Association of Applied
Linguists (AAAL)
February 13, 1999
“What Language Teachers Need to Know About
Technology.” CTW Mellon Project, Weslyan
University
December 28, 1998
San Francisco, MLA
“The Role of Technology in Second Language
Acquisition.” Invited talk at the
MLA Convention, San Francisco.
September 12, 1998
“La evaluación de la comunicación sincrónica
por Internet: el caso RTA, un programa de
“chat”.” Invited teleconference lecture, IX
Encuentro de Profesores de Español, UNAM,
Mexico and San Antonio.
July 6-9, 1998
“Designing interfaces for L2 CD-ROMs:
the
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San Diego, CA.
case of Nuevos destinos.”
San Diego.
May 27-29, 1998
Seattle, WA
“Distance Learning for Foreign Languages.”
Talk at the Washington Conference on
Distance Learning. UW and WSU, Seattle, WA.
October 23, 1997
Wesleyan, CT.
“Implementing Networked-Based Communication
in the Language Classroom. Invited Talk at
Wesleyan University, CT.
November, 1996
U de Valladolid
Planeamiento lingüístico en el Perú colonial
Invited lecturer for the conference on
Cultura y Corte de Valladolid, Universidad
de Valladolid.
November, 1996
“Nuevos Destinos: CD-ROM for SecondLanguage
Learning,” paper given at ACTFL ‘96,
Philadelphia.
ACTFL
Talk at CALICO,
Feb 10-13, 1996
PennState, PA
“RTA for Spanish,” Invited lecturer at
Penn State University
Sept. 10-12, 1995
CALL, Exeter, England
“Distance learning for teaching Foreign
Languages,” paper given at CALL, Exeter,
England
August 1995
AATSP, San Diego, CA
“Remote TA: Speaking Spanish on the
Internet,” paper given at AATSP, San Diego,
March 25-28, 1995
AAAL, Long Beach, CA
Lexical Processing in Second-Language
Readers,” paper given at AAAL, Long Beach
December 30, 1994
San Diego, CA
"What the Pro-Drop Parameter Tells Us about
Second Language Acquisition," MLA, San
Diego, CA.
April 11-17, 1993
Veracruz, Mexico
"La enseñanza del español a través de la
computora," ALFAL, Veracruz, Mexico
March 27, 1992
Syracuse Univ.
"How L2 learners read CALL materials",
invited paper at Syracuse Univ., Syracuse,
N.Y.
December 28-31, 1991
S.F., CA.
"Readers' strategies using CALL materials,"
invited paper at MLA conference, S.F., CA.
April 24-28, 1991
N.Y.C.
"How to author CALL lessons," workshop given
at Northeast Conference, N.Y.C.
February 21-24, 1991
U.C.S.B.
"The Role of Syntax in Tracing the
Development of Old Spanish," talk at LSRL
XXI, U.C.S.B.
October 18, 1990
Ball State Univ.
"Hypermedia and Teaching Languages," talk at
HyperMedia Conference, Ball State Univ.
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May 29, 1990
URochester
"Hypermedia for the Foreign Language
Curriculum," talk given at Macacademia,
April 19-21, 1990
N.Y.C.
"Learner-Driven Lesson Using Hypermedia,"
talk given at Northeast Conference, N.Y.C.
March 5-10, 1990
U de Sevilla
"Aspectos sintácticos del español antiguo:
La prosa latinizada del Cartulario de San
Millán de la Cogolla," talk at the II
Conference of the History of the Spanish
language, U de Sevilla, Spain.
November 10, 1989
Liverpool High School, NY
"New Technology and the Foreign Language
Curriculum," invited talk at Liverpool
Independent School District (Syracuse)
September 20, 1989
"Authoring CALL lessons for Foreign
Languages,"
invited talk at Ithaca College, NY.
Ithaca College, NY
August 14-18, 1989
Rugters Univ., NJ
"Towards a Syntactic Index for Semi-latinate
Texts of the Early Middle Ages," talk at
the International Society for Historical
Linguistics IX, Rutgers University, NJ.
April 22, 1989
Keynote address at the Coordinating
Committee
for ESOL Resources (CCER), MCC, Rochester,
NY.
MCC, Rochester, NY
April 6-9, 1989
NE conference, NYC
"HyperCALL and the Preparation of CALL
materials", talk at the Northeast
Conference, NY, NY.
March 3-5, 1989
U Texas, Austin
"HyperCALL and Videodisc Materials," invited
talk at National Portuguese Conference on
Teaching, Austin, TX.
February 23, 1989
U of Toronto
"HyperCALL in the Extended Classroom,"
invited talk at University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada.
November 18, 1988
"New Technologies in the Language
Classroom,"
invited talk at Nazareth College, Rochester,
NY.
Nazareth College
October 15-16, 1988
Boston, MA
Exhibitor at HyperExpo, World Trade Center,
Boston, MA.
July 22, 1988
"Hyper-HYPERCARD for the Language
Professions," invited talk at CALICO
International Convention
July 7-20, 1988
Spanish Computer Workshop (Master Teacher).
URocheste
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Middlebury College
The Language Schools, Middlebury College,
Vermont.
April 7-9, 1988
U Puerto Rico
Symposium on "Aportes de la Lingüística a la
enseñanza del español como lengua materna,"
invited talk. Univ. of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras, Puerto Rico.
March 10-12, 1988
"Sound Change and Linguistics Residue," talk
at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT
39)
Georgetown University, Washington.
August 14, 1987
"A Demonstration of TALK, Teacher's
Authoring
Language Kit," invited talk at the American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese, Los Angeles, CA.
AATSP
June 27, 1987
Middlebury College
"Using TALK to Create a CALL Foreign
Language
Curriculum," invited talk at Middlebury
College, The Language Schools.
May 27-29, 1987
MACADEMIA
"Authoring Tools for Language Instruction,"
invited talk at MACADEMIA (Apple Computers,
Inc.), Boston, Ma.
March 30-April 4, 1987
U Cáceres
"Aproximaciones nuevas al fenómeno [f] > [h]
>[Ø]," at Primer Congreso internacional
sobre la historia de la lengua española,
Universidad de Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain.
April 23, 1987
U Pennsylvania
"Sound Change in Old Spanish: The Case of
F-,"invited talk given to the UPenn
Linguistics Club.
November 15, 1986
SAMLA
"Computer Technology and the Language Lab,"
invited paper at the 1986 Southern
Association of the MLA (SAMLA). Atlanta,
Georgia.
November 12, 1986
"The Language Teacher and CALL," invited
talk
at the Univ. of Georgia, Department of
Romance Languages, Athens, Georgia.
U Georgia
September 26-27, 1986
AATSP
Oct. 24-26, 1986
Organizer and Chair of the session on
Applied
Linguistics and the Teaching of Spanish, The
Second Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting
of the American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese, Univ. of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
"Is 'to'/a
the head of S?
I don't want to
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NWAVE XV
decidir la cuestión but I'm going to," at
Proceedings of NWAV-XV, Stanford, CA:
Stanford Linguistics Department.
May 21, 1986
"Teaching Foreign Languages
Communicatively,"
workshop leader. Sponsored by the Second
Language Advisory Council of Western New
York, Univ. of Rochester.
U Rochester
April 11, 1986
U Rochester
"A Rose is a Rose, But is a Bilingual a
Bilingual?" FLLL Departmental Colloquium,
Univ. of Rochester
May 13-15, 1986
CALICO
"TALK, a New Authoring Language for the
Macintosh," at the third annual CALICO
meeting, The U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
MD.
Feb. 6-7, 1986
DLI, Monterey, CA
Discussant for "Second Language Teaching and
Educational Technology: A State of the Art
Symposium." sponsored by the Defense
Intellligence Agency/Univ. of Penn. at The
Defense Language Institute, Monterey, Ca.
Dec. 27-30, 1985
MLA
(1) "Prospects for the Language Lab of the
Future"; and (2) "The Macintosh and Foreign
Language Instruction" at the Modern Language
Association, Chicago
Oct. 24-26, 1985
"Interference or Creativity?:
-NDO
form in Puerto Rican Spanish"
Univ.
NWAVE XIV
Mar. 7-9, 1985
LSRL XV
Usage of the
Georgetown
"Scribal Worries and Medieval Sound
Changes."
Fifteenth Linguistics Symposium on Romance
Languages, Boston Univ.
Jan 29-Feb 2, 1985
CALICO
"Foreign Language Authoring System for the
Macintosh Microcomputer." Second Annual
Symposium on Computers and Language at
Baltimore, Md.
Oct. 25-27, 1984
NWAV XIII
(1) "Scribal Worries as a Source of
Reconstructing Medieval Sound Changes" and
(2) "A Non-Discrete Analysis of Estar
Progressives". Univ. of Pennsylvania
May 11-13, 1984
Andean Society
"Language Policy in Perú." Biennial Meeting
of the International Association for Andean
Culture, Darthmouth College
January 17, 1984
Ohio State U
"Pedagogical Reflections: How Much
Subjunctive is Enough?" Ohio State Univ.
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October 4-9, 1982
U Puerto Rico
Oct. 21-23, 1981
NWAV X
"El subjuntivo: regla obligatoria o
variable."
El Primer Congreso Sobre el Español de
América, Univ. of Puerto Rico
"Variation Theory and the Subjunctive Mood
in
Spanish." University of Pennsylvania
February 20, 1981
Boston U
"Mood Selection among Spanish-Speaking
Children." Program in Psycholinguistics and
Education, Boston Univ.
Mar. 25-27, 1981
LSRL XI
"Usage of the Subjunctive in Mexican
Spanish." Univ. of Texas, San Antonio
Academic Honors, Grants, and Offices
Honorary Societies
•Phi Beta Kappa, U.C.L.A.
Scholarships
•President's Scholarship, 1969
•Graduate Research Grant, 1979 and 1980
Awards
•URochester Students' Association "Teacher
of the Year-FINALIST (1 of 5)," 1989
•Elected Member of the North American
Academy of the Spanish Language, 2003
Grants & Fellowships
•2012-14, UC Davis Provost Hybrid Course
Award, Second-year Spanish, $12,000
•2011-13, UC Online Initiative, First-year
Spanish online, Office of the President,
$30,000
•2009-2012, National Language Flagship
Grant, “Arabic Encounters,” $300,000.
•2006-2012, co-PI with Olga Kagan for NLRC,
Heritage Language Resource Center,
$750,000
•2006, UCHRI cluster grant, Heritage
Language Teaching, $5,000.
•2006, June/July, Universidad de Valladolid,
International Scholar Collaboration
Grant, $4,000
•2005-2006, SALRC, Dual Script for Punjabi,
$24,000
•2005-2008, Title VI IRS Grant (DOE),
Punjabi Course Materials, $273,000
•2004-2005,NEW Humanities Faculty Workshop,
$74,000
•2003-2007, with co-PI Kirk Belnap (BYU),
FIPSE Grant, Arabic Without Walls,
$453,000.
•2003-2004, Faculty Research Grant, $1,434,
UCD
•2002, co-PI for a $25,000 MEXUS grant to
develop a SLA database
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•2002, co-PI for a three-year $240,00 FIPSE
grant to develop Spanish without Walls, a
Spanish distance learning course, 20002003
•1997-2000, co-PI with Dick Walters for
three-year $300,000 FIPSE grant to study
network-based language learning
•1993-1994, UCD Research Travel Award to
Salamanca, Spain
•1992-1993, Research Travel Award to
Veracruz, Mexico, UCD
•1992-1993, New Faculty Research Grant, UCD
•1989-91, Mercer Brugler Distinguished
Teaching Professor in the College of Arts
and Science, U of Rochester
•1988, Bridging Fellowship with Dept. of
Computer Science, U of Rochester
•1986-87, Mellon Fellowship in Humanities,
UPenn.
•1986, N.E.H. Travel to Collections Grant
•1986, Faculty Research Grant, URochester
•1985, Courseware Development Grant,
URochester
•1984, Sloan Foundation Grant for C.A.I.
curriculum development
•1984, N.E.H. Travel to Collections Grant,
Dartmouth
•1984, Faculty Fellowship, Dartmouth
Offices
•Editorial Board for Georgetown University
Press
•Editorial Board of Language Learning &
Technology
•Director of the UC Consortium for Language
Learning & Teaching, 2000-2012
•MLA Committee on Information Technology,
2006-2009
•UHawaii NFLRC advisory board, 2010-present
•CLEAR NFLRC advisory board, 2005-2012
•SDSU NFLRC (LARC) Advisory Board, 1999present
•Berkeley Language Center Advisory Board,
2004-present
•Carnegie Mellon University Language
Advisory Board, 2000-present
•California World Language Project Advisory
Board, 2005-present
•California Language Teachers Association
Advisory Board, 2005-present
•CALICO Executive Board, 1999-2002
•Director of the UC Davis Second Language
Acquisition Institute, 1997-2000
•Department Chair, 1994-1998, 2000-2003
•MLA delegate in pedagogy, elected 19921994.
•MLA Advisory Committee, elected 1990-1993.
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•Discussion Group on Comparative Romance
Linguistics, elected to executive
committee, 1990-1992.
•Asociación de Historia de la lengua
española, elected to board of directors,
1987-1990.
•Editor of the Comparative Romance
Linguistics Newsletter, 1986-1988
Memberships:
MLA
CALICO
AHLE
AAAL
References:
Tom Walsh, Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish &
Portuguese, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Milton Azevedo, Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Dept. of
Spanish & Portuguese, UCBerkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
Claire Kramsch, Distinguished Professor of German Linguistics,
Dept. of Germanic Languages, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
94720
Roger Wright, Professor of Spanish, Department of Hispanic
Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England L69
3BX
Home address:
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