Emilia Alonso Marks/Associate Professor

 

 

Address

247 Gordy Hall, Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
Tel: (740) 593-2765 / Fax: 593-0729
Email: markse@ohio.edu
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~markse

Education

1992 Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, University of Sevilla, Spain.

1989-90 Graduate course work in Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Methods, University of Oregon.

1987-88 Graduate course work in Psycholinguistics and Second/Foreign Language Pedagogy, Harvard University.

1987 BA English, University of Sevilla, Spain.

Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude, Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Sevilla, Spain.

1985 Undergraduate course work in English Phonetics, University College of London.

Professional Appointments

2002-To Present Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University; Associate Director for Research, Institute for the Empirical Study of Language, Ohio University.

2008-2009 Director, Education Abroad Program, OU-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain (Spring Quarter).

 

2004-2005 Accompanying Professor and Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, OU-Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

2002-2003 Accompanying Professor and Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, OU-Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University.

1999-2000 Accompanying Professor and Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, O U – Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

1993-1996 Instructor, English Department, University of Sevilla, Spain.

1994-1996 Coordinator, Erasmus European Student-Exchange Program with the University of Strasbourg II and the University of Athens (Greece).

1992-1993 Assistant Director, Basic Spanish Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona.

1992-1993 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona.

1992-1993 ESL instructor, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona.

1990-1992 Instructor, Spanish-American Institute (University of Wisconsin-Platteville), Sevilla, Spain.

1989-1990 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon.

1988-1989 Instructor, English Department, University of Sevilla, Spain.

1988 Instructor, School of Tourism (C.E.N.P.), Sevilla, Spain.

1987-1988 Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University.

Courses I regularly teach

·        Spanish 341 & 343 “Advanced Composition and Conversation”

·        Spanish 370/536 “Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics”

·        Spanish 437/537 “Applied Phonetics”

·        Spanish 438/538 “Hispanic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics”

Research Interests

  • Speech perception and language understanding
  • First and second language acquisition
  • Spanish phonetics and phonology
  • Language pedagogy
  • Dialectology and Sociolinguistics

Current Research

Manuscripts Under Peer Review, Submitted, or in Preparation:

 

“Perceived writing likes and needs in Spanish and English as Foreign Languages,” under peer review, Hispania, co-authors: A. Bruton and A. Broca (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). December 2009.

 

“Migrating to rural Andalucía: Examining the counter-urbanization experience,” under peer review, Revista Internacional de Sociología, co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina-Greensboro). Julio 2009.

 

“Vowel mutability with print,” co-author: Danny R. Moates (Ohio University). December 2009.

 

“Examining the effects of counter-urbanization on existing rural communities,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina-Greensboro). Winter 2010.

 

“The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” co-authors: Danny R. Moates (Ohio University) and Darío Barrera-Pardo (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). We presented preliminary results at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Paris, July 2008. Data analyses will be completed in winter 2010.

 

Encuentro de identidades” [Encounter of identities]. Book project to be submitted in summer 2011.

Recent Publications

“Integrating communication skills: Meaningful projects for beginning writing and conversation students.” Selected proceedings of the XXVII Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). 2009 (in press).

 

“Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to distinguish novel languages,” co-authors: Nekane Oroz-Bretón, Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal and Liz McKenna. In Trends in Cognitive Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Models, Ed. By J. Valenzuela, A. Rojo and C. Soriano, pp. 277-291. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2009. ISBN: 978-3-631-57307-5.

 

 Exilio y patria en la última poesía de Ernestina de Champourcin” [Exile and homeland in the last poems of Ernestina de Champourcin], co-author: Thomas Franz (Ohio University). Ojáncano, 35, 31-45, April 2009.

 

 “Rhythmic characterization of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods. Selected Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008. CD-Rom.

 

“Incorporating service-learning in the Spanish classroom: Challenges and solutions,” Porta Linguarum, 9, January 2008.

Reevaluación del papel de la gramática en la instrucción lingüística: por qué hacerlo y cómo hacerlo” [Reevaluating the role of grammar in language instruction: Why do it and how to do it], Selected Proceedings of the XV Congress of the Spanish Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE), pp. 120-127, Sevilla, Spain, 2004.

“Sociedades en transformación/dialectos en flux: Dinamismo en La Reina del Sur de Arturo Pérez Reverte” [Societies in transformation/dialects in flux: Dynamism in The Queen of the South by A. Pérez-Reverte], co-authors: Thomas Franz (Ohio University) and Esperanza Zamora-Lara (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico). Huarte de San Juan, 7, 59-71, 2004.

“Reading texts in instructed L1 and FL reading: Student perceptions and actual selections,” co-author: Anthony Bruton (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). Hispania, 87, 4, 770-783, 2004.

Recent Presentations

“Heritage Spanish Speakers in School Settings: Are We Meeting the Needs of These Students?” submitted, co-author: Jaime Espinoza Moore (Ohio University), 11th Biennial ELIA Conference: Bilingualism and Multilingualism in School Settings, Sevilla, Spain, March 18-19, 2010.

 Una mirada a fondo al proceso de la contra-urbanización: Patrones migratorios en la Andalucía rural,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), V International Conference of the Hispanic Association for the Humanities (AHH), Sevilla, Spain, June 2009.

 

“Integrating communication skills: Meaningful projects for beginning writing and conversation students,” 27th International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), Ciudad Real, Spain, March 2009.

 

Counter-urbanization into rural Spain: Linguistic signs of identity,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO, March 2009.

 
“Características rítmicas de la prosa y el verso en dos variedades del portugués: el portugués europeo y el portugués brasileño,” co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods (Ohio University), 8th Ohio Latin-Americanist Conference (OLAC), Athens, OH, February 2009.
 
“The counterurbanization experience: Migration in rural Spain,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC), Wilmington, NC, October 2008.
 

“Rhythmic characteristics of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods (Ohio University), Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008.

 

“The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” co-authors: Danny R. Moates (Ohio University) and Darío Barrera-Pardo (University of Seville, Spain), Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008.

 

“Examining the effects of counterurbanization: Sociolinguistic adaptations of existing local communities,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Arizona Anthropology and Linguistics Symposium, Tucson, AZ, May 2008.

“Constructing cultural identity: The case of itinerant societies,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, San Antonio, TX, November 2007.

“The rhythmic characterization of two varieties of Portuguese,” co-authors: Verna Stockmal, Z.S. Bond and Audra Woods (Ohio University), 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2006.

“Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to distinguish novel languages,” co-authors: Nekane Oroz-Bretón (Universidad Pública de Navarra), Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal and Liz McKenna (Ohio University), 5th International Convention of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO), Murcia, Spain, October 2006.

“Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to identify unknown languages,” co-authors: Nekane Oroz-Bretón (Universidad Pública de Navarra), Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal and Liz McKenna (Ohio University), 9th Annual OSU Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Linguistics, and Culture, Columbus, OH, April 2006.

“Students’ perception of the importance of acquiring socio-cultural competence,” co-author: Nekane Oroz-Bretón (Universidad Pública de Navarra), Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Columbia University, New York, NY, October 2005.

“La influencia de los estudios en el extranjero en la percepción de la cultura anfitriona,” co-author: Nekane Oroz-Bretón (Universidad Pública de Navarra), I International ConferenceSpanish, language of the future” (FIAPE), Toledo, Spain, March 2005.

Reevaluación del papel de la gramática en la instrucción lingüística: por qué hacerlo y cómo hacerlo” [Reevaluating the role of grammar in language instruction: Why do it and how to do it], 15th Congress of the Spanish Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE), Sevilla, Spain, September 2004.

Recent Awards

2008 Ohio University: International Travel Fund (Summer).

2004 Ohio University: Faculty Fellowship Leave (Spring).

2004 Ohio University: Ohio University Research Council Discretionary Funds.

Organizations

  • American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
  • American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
  • Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA)
  • Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO)
  • Spanish Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE)