Language Program

2012-13 General Catalog

Language Program
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Chinese

David Keenan
Chinese language, fiction, and history

French

Angela Elsey
Francophonie, 19th-century French history and civilization, French and Francophone cinema

Greta Hutchison
Foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, 20th-century French history and civilization, medieval French literature, 19th-century literature and art

Nora Megharbi
Second and foreign language acquisition, applied linguistics, pedagogical grammar, technology and multimedia, sociolinguistics, TA training, course supervision, business French, scientific French, francophone literature, translation

German

Zsuzsanna Abrams
Applied linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, computer-mediate communication

Walter Campbell
Language teaching, 18th- and 19th-century German literature, history of German

Hebrew

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Hebrew language and culture, biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics, the Hebrew Bible, Jewish thought, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition and bilingualism

Italian

Giulia Centineo
Italian culture and civilization; history of Italian language; Italian linguistics, syntax, and semantics; language pedagogy

Tonia Prencipe
Technology and foreign language pedagogy; modern Italian culture, history, literature, and cinema; creative writing; promotion of Italian language and culture of K-12

Japanese

Sakae Fujita
Foreign language methodology, drama/theater/improvisation use in language learning, language and identity, foreign language literacy

Shigeko Okamoto
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and gender, foreign language pedagogy, Japanese linguistics

Portuguese

Ana Maria Seara
Portuguese language; literature, film, and music of Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world; acquisition and teaching of foreign, second, and heritage languages

Spanish and Spanish for Spanish Speakers

Brenda Barceló
Medical and professional Spanish, language instruction technology, Spanish language instruction materials design, Latin American and U.S. Hispanic culture, Latin dance expressions, Spanish/English/Spanish translation and interpretation, Hispanic linguistics, Romance languages

Carlos Calierno
Bilingualism and intercultural communication; Latin American culture; history of the conquest, music, art, and cinematography

María Victoria González-Pagani
Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax; computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural studies, especially women’s contributions

Marta Navarro
Latin American literature, Mexican/Chicano culture, Latina/Chicana issues

Ariel A. Pérez
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, computer-assisted language learning, teaching language for proficiency, oral proficiency assessment; Latin American current affairs

Alvaro Romero-Marco
Spanish literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries; film, cultural studies

Eve Zyzik
Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, language pedagogy and curriculum design

Revised: 8/13/12