Joseph Collentine, Professor of Spanish

My name is Dr. Joseph Collentine. I am a Professor of Spanish. My interests break down into three areas:

• Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language
  • Mood (i.e., the indictive/subjunctive distinction)
  • Study Abroad
  • Learning Theories
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning
• Computational Linguistics
  • Corpus based approaches to language analysis
  • Learner corpora

See the Spanish Corpus Linguistic to download a free Mac based concordance program and tutorials on the use of regular expressions.

At present, my colleague, Dr. Yuly Asención, and I are in the process of collecting a Spanish learner corpus that targets students at the first, second and third years of Spanish university-level instruction.

Currently, I have various administrative duties:

• Chair, Department of Modern Languages
• Redesign of the Spanish On-line program
• Assit with various duties in the Spanish Masters in Teaching Spanish