Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Submissions from 2024
Developing Community-Based Sociolinguistic Corpora to Promote Social Justice, Ryan M. Bessett, Katherine Christoffersen, Ana M. Carvalho, Isabella Calafate, and Mayte Vega Mudy
Validation of the Spanish version of the IVI_C VRQoL in children from 8 to 18 years old, Carlos Fresno Cañada, Joan Gispets Parcerisas, Nazaret Fresno, Héctor Salvador Hernandez, Ana Llorca Cardeñosa, Alejandro Martinez Roda, and Joan Prat Bartomeu
The Literary Landscape for Twentieth-Century Spanish-Speaking LDS Poets, Gabriel González Núñez
Expanding Understandings of Race in Postsecondary Language Classrooms: A Call for Multiraciality in Teacher Identity Research, Marcela Hebbard
Submissions from 2023
Negotiating the Messiness of Teaching Linguistic Justice Online: Reflections of Multilingual Writing Instructors During COVID, Forster Kudjo Agama, Marcela Hebbard, and Bernadette M. López-Fitzsimmons
A cross dialectal comparison of first person singular subject pronoun expression in Southern Arizona and Southeast Texas, Ryan M. Bessett
Exploring Implicit Linguistic Bias: A Self-reflection Guide, Alyssa G. Cavazos
Exploring the impact of a student-faculty partnership program at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Alyssa G. Cavazos, Lesley Chapa, and Javier Cavazos Vela
Advancing a Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translingual Professional Development Framework for Teaching Assistants in Writing and Spanish Programs: An Update, Alyssa G. Cavazos, Marcela Hebbard, José E. Hernández, Crystal Rodriguez, and Geoffrey Schwarz
Student perceptions of community-engaged scholarship courses: Developing a sociolinguistic corpus on the U.S.–Mexico Border, Katherine Christoffersen, Aubrey Villanueva, and Ryan M. Bessett
Fugitive administrative rhetorics, Norma Denae Dibrell, Andrew Hollinger, and Maggie Shelledy
Motivation to learn Korean as L2 or L3 in a bilingual, bicultural community, Minhee Eom and Jean Braithwaite
Live captioning accuracy in English‑language newscasts in the USA, Nazaret Fresno
Media accessibility: in search for alliances, Nazaret Fresno and Gian Maria Greco
“Make a reasonable effort”: Translation policy for Texas state websites, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez and Nazaret Fresno
The Backchannel: A re/turn to digital communities, Andrew Hollinger and Manny Piña
Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850, John C. Isbell
Perceptual sensitivity to stress in native English speakers learning Spanish as a second language, Ramsés Ortín and Miquel Simonet
The accuracy of automatic and human live captions in English, Pablo Romero-Fresco and Nazaret Fresno
Precarious Citizenship: Ambivalence, Literacy, and Prisoner Reentry, Maggie Shelledy
Review: Expanding Writing Center Research with Discourse Analysis, Sara Swaim and Randall W. Monty
Submissions from 2022
On playful language divergences. Code-switching among Spanish-Portuguese bilinguals, Ana M. Carvalho and Katherine Christoffersen
Exploring translanguaging events through a multilingual writing course design, Alyssa G. Cavazos
Honrando Voces Diversas: A Framework for Equity-Minded Teaching Partnerships, Alyssa G. Cavazos and Lesley Chapa
Teaching Philosophy Statements: The Impact of a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Alyssa G. Cavazos, Cristina Trejo, Javier Cavazos Vela, Stephanie Garza-Ochoa, Yaritza Marin, and Alexis Racelis
The Day After. Access to the Final 2016 US Presidential Debate After its Live Broadcast, Nazaret Fresno
Subtitling speed in Media Accessibility research: some methodological considerations, Nazaret Fresno and Katarzyna Sepielak
Reporting at the border:Translation in periodicals at the Texas-Tamaulipas border during the 19th century, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Translating (or Not) a South American Philosopher The paratexts of the works of José Enrique Rodó in English, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Translation Studies and Public Policy, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
A leadership journey: How advising shapes an institutional culture, Jacquelyn Jones, Melissa Welker, Jonikka Charlton, and Janna Arney
JUST LOOK AT THESE SCARED FUCKING DWEEBS, Randall W. Monty
Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress, Ramsés Ortín
Phonological processing of stress by native English speakers learning Spanish as a second language, Ramsés Ortín and Miquel Simonet
Historicizing Power and Legitimacy After the Social Justice Turn: Resisting Narcissistic Tendencies, Cecilia D. Shelton and Sarah Warren-Riley
Submissions from 2021
A preliminary development and validation of the Translingual Disposition Questionnaire with Latinx students, Alyssa G. Cavazos and Mehmet A. Karaman
Insights from a faculty learning community on translingual community-engaged pedagogy at a Hispanic serving institution, Alyssa G. Cavazos and Sandra I. Musanti
Technologically-Aided Transcription Methods for Bilingual Sociolinguistic Corpora: Findings, Resources, and Considerations, Katherine Christoffersen, Ryan M. Bessett, and Ana M. Carvalho
Toda lengua es válida aquí en esta clase: Translanguaging pedagogy and critical language awareness in sociolinguistics courses on the U.S.-Mexico border, Katherine Christoffersen and Kimberly Regalado
Access to prominent political events on the World Wide Web: the case of the final 2016 US presidential debate, Nazaret Fresno
Closed captioning quality in the information society: the case of the American newscasts reshown online, Nazaret Fresno
Live Captioning Accuracy in Spanish-Language Newscasts in the United States, Nazaret Fresno
Strengthening respeakers’ training in Spain: the research-practice connection, Nazaret Fresno and Pablo Romero-Fresco
Dancing with the Devil Revisited, Marlene Galván
Política de Tradução em um mundo linguisticamente diverso, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez and Luciane Bittencourt Gomes Batista de Oliveira
Introducing Global Citizenship in Language Teacher Education through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Ramsés Ortín
Submissions from 2020
Foreign Languages Teaching Challenges: Stages, Practices and Methodologies, Khalid Aada
Insight on Planning and Assessing the Teaching-Learning Process, Khalid Aada
Reflective Teaching Practices Between Theory and Reality in a Demanding Society, Khalid Aada
Evaluación de programas de lengua: perspectivas profesionales e investigadoras, Julio Ciller and Ramsés Ortín
Football for all: the quality of the live closed captioning in the Super Bowl LII, Nazaret Fresno, Katarzyna Sepielak, and Maciej Krawczyk
Review of Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies, Marlene Galván
The Story of A Shipwrecked Slave: The Role of Esteban De Dorantes As An Interpreter In The Early Exploration And Conquest of The Americas, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Uncommonly Common: Reconsidering Creativity and Beauty in Technical Communication, Kathleen S. Hardesty and Andrew Hollinger
Becoming Transfronterizo Collaborators: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Developing Translingual Pedagogies In Wac/Wid, Marcela Hebbard and Yanina Hernández
(Dis)similarity and Identity: On Becoming Quasi-WPA, Andrew Hollinger and Jessie Borgman
Culturally Relevant Care Through the Lens of Duoethnography, Jacqueline B. Koonce and Karin A. Lewis
When the Classroom Becomes a Screen: Finding Our Talent Zones for Teaching, Beatrice Mendez Newman
Accounts of Asylum: A Call Toward Transnational Literacies of Displacement, Monica Reyes
Ethos in Early Chinese Rhetoric: The Case of “Heaven”, Yong-Kang Wei
Submissions from 2019
El francés como desafío plurilingüistico en el contexto educativo de México, Khalid Aada
Teaching in a Multicultural and Demanding Society, Khalid Aada
Encouraging Languages other than English in First-Year Writing Courses: Experiences from Linguistically Diverse Writers, Alyssa G. Cavazos
Linguistic Terrorism in the Borderlands: Language Ideologies in the Narratives of Young Adults in the Rio Grande Valley, Katherine Christoffersen
On Not Taming the Wild Tongue: Challenges and Approaches to Institutional Translation in a University Serving a Historically Minoritized Population, Jose M. Davila-Montes, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez, and Francisco Guajardo
The shape of translation policy: a comparison of policy determinants in Bangor and Brownsville, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Translating to change the nation: The case of José Pedro Varela, a reformer in late 19th century Uruguay, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Undergirding Writing Centers' Responses to the Neoliberal Academy, Randall W. Monty
“If It Hadn’t Been for Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilient Dwelling and Rhetorical Agency in Prison Writing, Maggie Shelledy
Submissions from 2018
Advancing a Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translingual Framework: A Professional Development Series for Teaching Assistants in Writing and Spanish Programs, Alyssa G. Cavazos, Marcela Hebbard, José E. Hernández, Crystal Rodriguez, and Geoffrey Schwarz
Crossing Linguistic Borders: Teaching Writing Skills in Two Languages to Translators-in-Training, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Traducir en pro de la educación del pueblo: la labor traductora de la Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
A Review of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes, Andrew Hollinger
Transfer of Variable Grammars in Third Language Acquisition, Ramsés Ortín and Carmen Fernandez-Florez
Javier Sicilia: Advocate of deliberative democracy in the Americas, Lyon Rathbun
No language policy without translation policy: A comparison of Flanders and Wales, Meylaerts Reine and Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Submissions from 2017
Comparing native speaker ratings and quantitative measures of oral proficiency in IELTS interviews, Katherine Christoffersen
What Students Do with Words: Language Use and Communicative Function in Full and Partial Immersion Classrooms, Katherine Christoffersen
“You live in the United States, you speak English,” decían las maestras How New Mexican Spanish speakers enact, ascribe, and reject ethnic identities, Katherine Christoffersen and Naomi L. Shin
Translation as a Rhetoric of Meaning, Jose M. Davila-Montes
Positional Verbs in Colonial Valley Zapotec, John Foreman and Brooke D. Lillehaugen
Approaching Engagement in Audio Description, Nazaret Fresno
Law and translation at the U.S.-Mexico border: Translation policy in a diglossic setting, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
You’re Going to Need This for College, Andrew Hollinger
Submissions from 2016
A contrastive analysis of dar ‘give’ in English and Brazilian Portuguese: semantic-syntactic relationships and implications for L2 instruction, Katherine Christoffersen
Dominant Discourses and Language Socialization in the Literacy Practices of a Spanish-Speaking Church, Katherine Christoffersen
On Attitudes Toward Spanish Varieties: A Bilingual Perspective, Julio F. C. Ciller and Carmen F. Florez
Audio Description Washes Brighter? A Study in Brand Names and Advertising, Jose M. Davila-Montes and Pilar Orero
Carving Characters in the Mind. A Theoretical Approach to the Reception of Characters in Audio Described Films, Nazaret Fresno
On Translation Policy, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Translation Policy in a Linguistically Diverse World, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Opening the Door for Cross-Disciplinary Literacy: Doing History and Writing in a High School to University Collaboration, Beatrice Mendez Newman and Penny Rosas
The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone, Randall W. Monty
Submissions from 2015
Latinas/os succeeding in academia: the effect of mentors and multiethnic coursework, Alyssa G. Cavazos
Audio describing characters : what features do audiences remember?, Nazaret Fresno, Judit Castellà Mate, Anna Matamala, and Olga Soler Vilageliu