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María  Ciriza Lope

María Ciriza Lope, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

817-257-6372 Scharbauer Hall 3103

  • Linguistics

Education

2009 University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics

2003 University of Illinois at Urbana –Champaign
MA in Hispanic Linguistics

2000 Deusto University
Bilbao, Spain
BA English Philology

Courses Taught

  • Spanish Phonology
  • Service-Learning in the Latino Community
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Medical Translation

Areas of Focus

Applied Linguistics
Language contact
Language revitalization

  • Books
    • Arxer, Steven, Maria del Puy Ciriza and Marco Shappeck. (2017). Aging in a Second Language: A Case Study of Aging, Immigration, and an English Speaking Community. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-57609-1.

  • Articles & Essays
    • Ciriza Lope, Maria. Forthcoming (2024). “Initiatives to Promote the Interfenerational Transmission of Basque: the Case of Worshops for Parents.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

    • Ciriza Lope, Maria. (2023). “‘Teaching English as service’ in Spanish language programs: A Translanuaging approach.” L2 Journal, 15(1) https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/L215159227 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cp127zr

    • Ciriza, Maria del Puy. (2019). Towards a parental muda for new Basque Speakers: assessing emotional factors and language ideologies. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12363

    • Ciriza, María del Puy. (2018). Bringing parents together: An innovative approach for parental involvement in an immersion school in the Basque Autonomous Community. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (1), 50-63. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2018.1467424

    • Ciriza, María del Puy, Shappeck, Marco and Steven Arxer. 2016. “Emergent target language identities among Latino English language learners.” Journal of Latinos and Education, 17(1), 1-16.

    • Ciriza, María del Puy. 2012. Basque natives vs. Basque learners: the construction of the Basque speaker through satire. Discourse, Context and Media 1 (4), 173-182.

    • 2024: The Heart of the Matter: Increasing Intercultural Empathy through Narratives. 11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. March 26th-28th. UT-San Antonio, Texas.
    • 2023: Critical Language Awareness and Intersectionality: Promoting “Context” and “Place” as Pedagogical Catalysts. 10th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. April 6-8th. Harvard University, Boston.
    • 2021: Basque Language Planning and Grassroots Movements: New Discourses on Intergenerational Language Transmission. International Conference: Conventional and Unconventional Ways of Transmitting and Revitalizing Minoritized Languages in European Context and Beyond, September 8th-10th. Warsaw.

Advanced Postgraduate Certificate in SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education)

  • Basque Studies Society
  • ACTFL
  • AAUSC  

Reviews Editor of the International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.

 

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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