Dr. Isabel Velázquez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
1127 Oldfather Hall
402-472-9821
mvelazquez2@unl.edu
Isabel Velázquez , Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) M.A. in Spanish, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Licenciatura en Comunicación, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Her area of research includes Sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the U.S./Mexico border, and the role of language in identity formations of US Latina/os. Her current research focuses on linguistic maintenance and loss among Latino families in the Midwest.
Articles:
- Velázquez, I. (2010). ¿Sólo una vida traducida? Dislocación, diáspora y perviviencia cultural en la experiencia Mexicana en Estados Unidos. Conciencia Mexicana: Bicentenario de la Independencia y Centenario de la Revolución. Rodrigo Pereyra, Ed. Lubbock, TX: Céfiro Press. 201–208.
- Velázquez, I. (2009). Intergenerational Spanish transmission in El Paso, Texas: Parental perceptions of cost/benefit. Spanish in Context 6:1, 69-84.
Interview:
- Sobre el español en Estados Unidos redEle Revista Electrónica de Didáctica del Español como Lengua Extranjera Número 24. 2012
Courses Taught:
Graduate
- SPAN 498/898. Spanish in the US: Variation and Contact
- SPAN 498/898. Heritage Speaker Pedagogy
- MODL 880. Applied Linguistics, Second Lang Teaching Methodology
Undergraduate
- SPAN 317. Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- SPAN 304. Advanced Writing
- SPAN 497. Sociolinguistics of Spanish
