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

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 two principal administrative duties:

• Co-coordinator with Dr. Cecilia Ojeda, of the Spanish On-line program
• Coordinator of the Spanish Masters in Teaching Spanish