Emilia Alonso Marks (also Emilia Alonso Sameño)

Professor

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Address

Department of Modern Languages, 247 Gordy Hall
Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
Tel: (740) 593-2765 / Fax: 593-0729
Email: markse@ohio.edu
http://www.ohio.edu/people/markse/vita_files/vita.html

Education

1992

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Universidad de 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 in English, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

 

Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude, Institute of Educational Sciences, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

1985

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

Professional Appointments

2012-Present

Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University.


  • Graduate Chair (2012-2015).

2002-2011

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University.

 

  • Director, Education Abroad Program, OU-Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain. (Spring Quarter 2010-2011, 2008-2009).

 

  • Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, OU–Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (2004-2005).

 

  • Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, OU–Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (2002-2003).

1996-2002 

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University.

 

  • Co-Director, Education Abroad Program, OU–Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (1999-2000).

1993-1996 

Instructor, English Department, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

 

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

1992-1993

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

 

  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona.

 

  • 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, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

 

  • Instructor, School of Tourism (C.E.N.P.), Sevilla, Spain (September-December).

1987-1988

Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University.

Courses I Regularly Teach

  • Spanish 3110 & 3120 "Advanced Composition and Conversation"

  • Spanish 3460/5460 "Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics"

  • Spanish 4437/5437 "Applied Phonetics"

  • Spanish 4438/5438 "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 (identity and exile)

Current Research

Selected Refereed Journal Articles, Selected Proceedings, and Book Chapters

*Designates a student

  • “Assessing the impact of a short-term study abroad program on gains in cross-cultural sensitivity,” Emilia Alonso Marks. Accepted. Proceedings of the Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA) [Spanish Applied Linguistics Association] Conference, Lleida, Spain, April 2012.

  • “Vowel mutability in print in English and Spanish,” Danny R. Moates and Emilia Alonso Marks. Forthcoming. The Mental Lexicon 7:3, 2012.

  • “Heritage Spanish speakers in school settings: Are their needs being met?” J.E. Espinoza Moore* and E. Alonso Marks. In-press. In C. Abello-Contesse, P. Chandler, M.D. López-Jiménez, and R. Chacón-Beltrán (Eds.), Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Education: New Initiatives Anchored in Experience. Multilingual Matters, 2012.

  • “Una mirada a fondo al proceso de la contra-urbanización: Patrones migratorios en la Andalucía rural” [A closer look at the counter-urbanization process: Migratory patterns in rural Andalucía], Emilia Alonso Marks and Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro). El español, integrador de culturas. Ensayos. Serie Reflexión 15. Ed. By J. H. Valdivieso and E. Ruiz-Fornells. Editorial Orbis Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-931139-70-0.

  • “Heritage Language Speakers,” Emilia Alonso Marks. ELIA 11, 183-187, 2011.

  • “Perceived writing likes and needs in Spanish and English as Foreign Languages,” Anthony Bruton (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain), Emilia Alonso Marks and Ángeles Broca (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). Hispania, 93, 3, 471-489, September 2010.

  • “Integrating communication skills: Meaningful projects for beginning writing and conversation students,” Emilia Alonso Marks. Ways and Modes of Human Communication. Colección estudios 129, XX. Ed. by R. Caballero and M.J. Pinar. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2010. ISBN: 978-84-8427-759-0.

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

  • “Monolingual and bilingual children’s abilities to distinguish novel languages,” Emilia Alonso Marks, Nekane Oroz-Bretón (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain), Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal and Liz McKenna* (Ohio University). Trends in Cognitive Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Models, 277-291. Ed. by J. Valenzuela, A. Rojo and C. Soriano. Peter Lang, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-631-57307-5.

  • “Rhythmic characteristics of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, Emilia Alonso Marks and Audra Woods* (Ohio University). Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of America Meeting (CD-ROM), Paris, 2008.

  • “Incorporating service-learning in the Spanish classroom: Challenges and solutions,” Emilia Alonso Marks. Porta Linguarum, 9, 157-165, January 2008.

Book in Preparation

  • “Las palomas de San Blas” [Saint Blaise's doves], Emilia Alonso Marks. Book project. I started writing this book in the spring of 2009. The book is based on data I collected over a two-year period and analyzed over another two-year period. It deals with identity issues pertaining to two communities that have become in contact in rural Spain, a community of old-time residents and a community of recently arrived residents. This project will contribute to the on-going dialogue in the discipline, about identity and exile.

Articles Submitted, Revising to Resubmit, Resubmitted, or in Preparation

  • "Medidores del contacto y sensibilidad transculturales en el aprendizaje exitoso del inglés como lengua extranjera: Los estudiantes ecuatorianos en CEDEI," Rosa M Piqueres Gilabert* and Emilia Alonso Marks. Revising to resubmit. Fall 2012.

  • “Losing the Fear of Speaking: Tackling Anxiety in the Foreign Language Classroom,” Irene Ramos Arbolí* y Emilia Alonso Marks. IRB approved in April 2012. Data collection began in fall 2012. Manuscript in preparation.

  • “Knowledge, use, variation, and change in subjunctive in complement clauses by Argentinean and Spanish native speakers of Spanish,” Muriel Gallego and Emilia Alonso Marks. IRB approved in October 2010. We began data collection in winter and spring 2011. We conducted preliminary analyses in fall 2011. Data coding and interpretation began in winter 2012. Final analyses were conducted in spring 2012. Manuscript in preparation.

  • “Peer Word Definition Strategies in Monolingual and Bilingual Adolescents,” Sally Marinellie, Emilia Alonso Marks, R. Warhola,* O. Masters,* C. Ordóñez-Bogart,* L. Poteet.* IRB approved in May 2010. Data collected in winter 2011. We conducted preliminary analyses in fall 2011. Data coding and interpretation began in winter 2012 and continued through spring 2012. Manuscript in preparation.

  • “The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” Danny R. Moates, Emilia Alonso Marks and Darío Barrera Pardo (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). We presented preliminary results at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Paris, July 2008. Manuscript in preparation.

Conferences

Recent Papers and Posters

  • “Non-native judgments of speaking genres and dialects in two varieties of Portuguese,” Emilia Alonso Marks, Zinny S. Bond and Verna Stockmal. Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, October 2012.

  • “Isaac del Vando-Villar: Hombre de letras pero ante todo, poeta,” Thomas R. Franz and Emilia Alonso Marks. Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (Hispanic Humanities Association) Conference, Madrid, Spain, June 2012.

  • “Assessing the impact of short-term study abroad programs on gains in cross-cultural sensitivity,” Emilia Alonso Marks. Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA) Conference, Universitat de Lleida, Spain, April 2012.

  • “Gains in cross-cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness in the study abroad context," Emilia Alonso Marks. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Boston, MA, March 24-26, 2012.

  • “The effects of attitudes and motivation on EFL learning: Ecuatorian students at CEDEI,” Rosa M. Piqueres-Gilabert* (Indiana University) and Emilia Alonso Marks. Presented by Rosa M. Piqueres-Gilabert.* 12th Annual Graduate Symposium: Global Perspectives in Linguistic Studies. Purdue University, March 2012.

  • “La influencia de los programas de estudio en el extranjero en el desarrollo de la sensibilidad croscultural,” Emilia Alonso Marks. Congreso Mundial de Profesores de Español (COMPROFES) [World Spanish Teachers Conference], Instituto Cervantes, 21-23 November, 2011.

  • “Attitudes and motivation in successful EFL learning: The case of Ecuadorian students at CEDEI,” Rosa M Piqueres Gilabert* and Emilia Alonso Marks. Presented by Rosa M Piqueres Gilabert.* Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2011.

  • “Designing meaningful projects that integrate writing and conversation skills,” Emilia Alonso Marks. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Conference, Boston, November 2010.

  • “Vowel mutability in print in English and Spanish,” Danny Moates and Emilia Alonso Marks. Co-presented. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP) Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, September 2010.

  • “Linguistic signs of identity among itinerant societies in rural Andalucía,” Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Emilia Alonso Marks. Presented by Mariche G. Bayonas. Spanish in Society Conference: Mediating Spaces, 5th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Limerick, Ireland, July 2010.

  • “Heritage Spanish Speakers in School Settings: Are We Meeting the Needs of These Students?” Jaime E. Espinoza Moore* and Emilia Alonso Marks. Co-presented. 11th Biennial ELIA International Conference: Bilingualism and Multilingualism in School Settings, Sevilla, March 18-19, 2010.

  • “Writing in a Foreign Language: Addressing Students’ Likes and Needs,” Anthony Bruton (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain), Emilia Alonso Marks and Ángeles Broca (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)]. Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. 9th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Athens, OH, February 27, 2010.

  • “Una mirada a fondo al proceso de la contra-urbanización: Patrones migratorios en la Andalucía rural” [A closer look at the counter-urbanization process: Migratory patterns in rural Andalucía], Emilia Alonso Marks and Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro). Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. 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,” Emilia Alonso Marks. XXVII AESLA (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics) International Conference, Ciudad Real, Spain, March 2009.

  • “Counter-urbanization into rural Spain: Linguistic signs of identity,” Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Emilia Alonso Marks. Presented by Mariche G. Bayonas. AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference, University of Colorado, Denver, March 2009.

  • “Características rítmicas de la prosa y el verso en dos variedades del portugués: el portugués europeo y el portugués brasileño” [Rhythmic features in prose and verse of two varieties of Portuguese: European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese], Z.S. Bond, V. Stockmal, Emilia Alonso Marks and A. Woods.* Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. 8th Ohio Latin-Americanist Conference, Ohio University, Athens, February 2009.

  • “The counter-urbanization experience: Migration in rural Spain,” Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Emilia Alonso Marks. Presented by Mariche G. Bayonas. MIFLC (Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference), University of North Carolina, Wilmington, October 2008.

  • “Rhythmic characteristics of prose and verse in varieties of Portuguese,” Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal, Emilia Alonso Marks and A. Woods.* Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. Acoustics 08 (Acoustical Society of America Meeting), Paris, July 2008.

  • “The feature [sonorant] in lexical access in Spanish,” Danny Moates, Emilia Alonso Marks and Darío Barrera (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). Co-presented. Acoustics 08 (Acoustical Society of America Meeting), Paris, July 2008.

  • “Examining counterurbanization: Sociolinguistic adaptation of the local community,” Emilia Alonso Marks and Mariche G. Bayonas (University of North Carolina, Greensboro). Presented by Emilia Alonso Marks. Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 9-11, 2008.

Recent Invited Talks

  • "Designing Cooperative Communicative Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom," Language Learning Series, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, February 2012.

  • “Writing in English and Spanish as Foreign Languages,” Colloquium, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University, October 2010.

  • “Implementing Cooperative Communicative Activities for Foreign Language Learners,” Foreign Language Unit, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia, June 2010.

  • “The rhythm of two varieties of Portuguese: Its sensitivity to task demands,” Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, October 2008.

  • “Children’s Language Identification Ability,” Colloquium, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, June 2008.

Interviews

  • Guest speaker at Conversations From Studio B, a WOUB radio talk show, with host Kelee Riesbeck, May 2008.

  • Guest speaker at Rise! Radio Talk Show hosted by Burnette Clingman of Burnette Clingman Enterprises, Dayton, Ohio, June 2006.

Current Sponsored Research Projects and Grants

2012-2016

Ohio University: Presidential Teacher Award

2010-2013

Ministry of Education and Innovation, Government of Spain: Research Project, “Percepción de los sonidos del inglés y del español por estudiantes de segundas lenguas” [Perception of Spanish and English Sounds by Second Language Learners]. PI: Dr. Teresa López Soto (Universidad de Sevilla). I am a co-investigator in this project.

2010-2013

Ministry of Education and Innovation, Government of Spain: Research Project, “La Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras: Tareas con Contenido” [Foreign Language Teaching: Adding Content to Task]. PI: Dr. Anthony Bruton (Universidad de Sevilla). I am a co-investigator in this project.

2012

Ohio University: Faculty Fellowship Leave (spring).


  • International Travel Fund

Scholarly Outreach

Recent and Current Editorships

2009-Present

Reviewer, Hispania (AATSP Journal)

2007

Reviewer, Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, San Antonio, TX, published with Cascadilla Press in 2008.

Recent Guest speaker Co-sponsorships and Co-organizations 

2012

Dr. Anna Babel, Assistant Professor of Spanish, The Ohio State University. Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Latin American Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences [fall].

2011

Dr. Rajiv Saxena, Fulbright Senior Scholar, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Visit co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Latin American Studies, the Center for International Studies, the Office of Diversity, Access and Equity, and the College of Arts and Sciences [winter].

2010

Dr. Terrell Morgan, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Latin American Studies, and the Department of Linguistics [winter].

2008

Dr. Teresa López Soto, Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Colloquium sponsored by the Institute for the Empirical Study of Language [summer].

2007

Dr. David Pisoni, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University. Kennedy Speaker. Lecture sponsored by the Institute for the Empirical Study of Language and the Kennedy Lecture Series [spring].

Recent Professional Service

2010

Chair, Linguistics session, 9th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Ohio University

 

Chair, three sessions, 11th Biennial Bilingualism and Multilingualism in School Settings (ELIA) Conference, Sevilla, Spain

2009

Chair, Linguistics session, 8th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Ohio University

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)

Hispanic Association of the Humanities (AHH)

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA)

Spanish Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE)

Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA)

Ohio Foreign Language Alliance (OVFLA)