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, Department of Modern Languages, 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. Research Interests Speech perception and language understanding First and second language acquisition Spanish phonetics and phonology Language pedagogy Sociolinguistics Current Research Manuscripts in Preparation: “Perceived writing likes and needs in Spanish and English as Foreign Languages,” co-authors: A. Bruton and A. Broca (University of Seville, Spain). Fall 2009. “Migrating to rural Andalucía: Examining the counter-urbanization experience,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina-Greensboro). Fall 2009. “Vowel mutability with reading,” co-author: Danny R. Moates. Fall 2009. “Examining the effects of counter-urbanization on existing rural communities,” co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina-Greensboro). Fall 2009. “The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” co-authors: Danny R. Moates (Ohio University) and Darío Barrera-Pardo (University of Seville, Spain). We presented preliminary results at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Paris, July 2008. Data analyses will be completed in fall 2009. “Encuentro de identidades” [Encountering identities]. Book project to be submitted, end of fall 2009. 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. 2009 (in press). “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 (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. Peter Lang ISBN: 978-3-631-57307-5 (in press). “Rhythmic characterization of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods. Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008. “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], Proceedings of the XV ASELE Conference, 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], Huarte de San Juan, 7, 59-71, 2004 [co-authors: Thomas Franz, Ohio University and Esperanza Zamora-Lara, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico]. “Reading texts in instructed L1 and FL reading: Student perceptions and actual selections,” Hispania, 87, 4, 770-783, 2004 [co-author: Anthony Bruton, University of Sevilla, Spain]. “Language experience and the representation of phonology in an unknown language,” RESLA, 16, 23-31, 2003 [co-authors: Z.S. Bond and Verna Stockmal]. “Determining phoneme variability in lexical selection: The case of Spanish consonants,” Cognitive Linguistics in Spain at the Turn of the Century (I), pp. 253-261. Ed. by C. Molina, M.L. Blanco, J. Marín, A.L. Rodríguez and M. Romano. Madrid: Servicio de Imprenta de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2003. [co-authors: Danny R. Moates and Z.S. Bond]. “Vowel mutability: The Case of monolingual Spanish listeners and bilingual Spanish-English listeners,” Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 21, 2, 73-99, 2002 [co-authors: Danny R. Moates, Z.S. Bond and Leonor Vázquez]. “Word reconstruction and consonant features in English and Spanish,” Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences, 40, 2, 2002 [co-authors: Danny Moates, Z.S. Bond and Verna Stockmal]. Recent Presentations “Una mirada a fondo al proceso de la contra-urbanización: Patrones migratorios en la Andalucía rural,” paper accepted for presentation, V International Conference of the Hispanic Association for the Humanities (AHH), Sevilla, June 2009 [co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas, University of North Carolina, Greensboro]. “Integrating communication skills: Meaningful projects for beginning writing and conversation students,” paper accepted for presentation, AESLA (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference, Ciudad Real, Spain, March 2009. “Counter-urbanization into rural Spain: Linguistic signs of identity,” poster accepted for presentation, AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), University of Colorado, Denver, March 2009 [co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas, University of North Carolina-Greensboro]. “Características rítmicas de la prosa y el verso en dos variedades del portugués,” 8th OLAC (Ohio Latin-Americanist Conference), Ohio University, Athens, February 2009 [co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods]. “A closer look at the counterurbanization experience: Migratory patterns in rural Andalucía,” MIFLC (Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference), University of North Carolina, Wilmington, October 2008 [co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas, University of North Carolina-Greensboro]. “Rhythmic characteristics of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008 [co-authors: Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, and Audra Woods]. “The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Paris, July 2008 [co-authors: Danny R. Moates (Ohio University) and Darío Barrera-Pardo (University of Seville, Spain)]. “Examining the effects of counterurbanization: Sociolinguistic adaptations of existing local communities,” Arizona Anthropology and Linguistics Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 2008 [co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)]. “Constructing cultural identity: The case of itinerant societies,” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, San Antonio, TX, November 2007 [co-author: Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)].  “The rhythmic characterization of two varieties of Portuguese,” 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2006 [co-authors: Verna Stockmal, Z.S. Bond and Audra Woods]. “Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to distinguish novel languages,” V AELCO (Spanish Association for Cognitive Linguistics) International Convention, Murcia, Spain, October 2006 [co-authors: Nekane Oroz-Bretón, Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal y Liz McKenna]. “Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to distinguish novel languages,” 9th Annual OSU Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Linguistics, and Culture, Columbus, Ohio, April 2006 [co-authors: Nekane Oroz-Bretón, Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal y Liz McKenna]. “Students’ perception of the importance of acquiring socio-cultural competence,” SLRF (Second Language Research Forum), Columbia University, New York, October 2005 [co-author: Nekane Oroz-Bretón, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain]. “La influencia de los estudios en el extranjero en la percepción de la cultura anfitriona,” I International Conference “Spanish, language of the future,” Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, March 2005 [co-author: Nekane Oroz, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain]. “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 ASELE (Spanish Association for Spanish as a Foreign Language) Conference, Sevilla, Spain, September 2004. “Vowel mutability with print materials in Spanish and English,” 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003 [co-author: Danny R. Moates]. “Word reconstruction with print materials in Spanish: An extended perspective” International Psycholinguistic Symposium, Barcelona, March 2003 [co-author: Danny R. Moates]. Recent Awards 2008 Ohio University: International Travel Fund (Summer). 2006 Ohio University: Faculty Leave (Spring). 2006 Ohio University: Baker Fund (sought but not awarded). 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 for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO) Spanish Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE)