Curriculum Vitae [updated September 2014] Aixa Said-Mohand

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1 Curriculum Vitae [updated September 2014] Aixa Said-Mohand Education 2006 Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics (Sociolinguistics) University of Florida, Gainesville. Dissertation: Sociolinguistic Variation in the Use of Spanish Discourse Markers by Spanish Heritage Speakers M.A. in Spanish Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Máster de Formación de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera. [Master on the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language] 1999 Postgraduate Certificate in Technical Translation English-to-Spanish Language Services, Dublin City University B.A. in Geography and History Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de la Cartuja, Granada, Spain. [Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras. Geografía e Historia: especialización en Historia Contemporánea.] Teaching Experience Present Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages. New Jersey City University. Undergraduate Courses taught: Elementary Spanish I (LANG 103) and II (LANG 104), English-Spanish Comparative Grammar (LANG 310), Methodology I (LANG 510), English-Spanish Comparative Grammar II (LANG 311), and Spanish in the United States (LANG 340) Graduate Courses taught: Advanced Spanish Grammar and Linguistics (LANG 602) Assistant Professor of Spanish and Humanistic Studies Department of Humanistic Studies. University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Courses taught: Beginning Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish Conversation and Composition, Advanced Spanish Grammar, Spanish Sociolinguistics, Spanish Phonetics, Spanish in the U.S., and Language & Society Assistant to the Coordinator for the First Year Program in Spanish Department of Romances Languages and Literatures, University of Florida.

2 Duties: Observing and evaluating teaching assistants, teaching workshops, implementing exams, advising teaching assistants on grading materials and exams, and planning language instruction Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Romances Languages and Literatures, University of Florida. Courses taught: Elementary Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish II, Spanish Grammar and Composition, Intermediate Grammar and Composition for Spanish Heritage Learners, Advanced Spanish Conversation, and Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics College Lecturer in Spanish School of Business and Humanities, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland. Duties: Teaching Spanish at all levels, participating in the writing and correction of exams for nationally recognized courses, and moderating oral examinations Coordinator of the Spanish Program and Instructor The Galway Language Center, The Bridge Mills, Galway, Ireland. Duties: Organizing teacher interviews, training and supervising Spanish teachers, analyzing students target needs, teaching Spanish at all levels to adult learners in evening classes, preparing for Leaving Certificate exams (GCSE) Instructor of Spanish Scoil Ide, Primary School, Salthill, Galway, Ireland. Appointed by the Modern Languages Pilot Project Español in Ireland. Duties: Fostering positive attitudes toward language learning to primary school students (fifth and sixth grades), encouraging communication in the four language skills Adjunct Instructor of Spanish Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Duties: Teaching Elementary Spanish and updating Language Lab materials. Scholarships / Awards / Grants 2013 Travel Grant College of Arts & Science, NJCU. Travel grant to present and direct workshops in Baltimore, Maryland Travel Grant College of Arts & Science, NJCU. Travel grant to present and direct workshops in Baltimore, Maryland Travel Grant College of Arts & Science, NJCU. Travel grant to present a conference paper in Sacramento, California Travel Grant

3 College of Arts & Science, NJCU. Travel grant to present and direct a workshop in Baltimore, Maryland Travel Grant Humanistic Studies Department, UW-Green Bay. Travel grant to present a conference paper in Miami, Florida Travel Grant College of Liberal Arts, UW-Green Bay. Travel grant for professional development to attend a Heritage Languages workshop in UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Travel Grant Humanistic Studies Department, UW-Green Bay. Travel grant to present a conference paper in Washington DC Travel Grant Humanistic Studies Department, UW-Green Bay. Travel grant to present a conference paper in San Antonio, Texas Award for Outstanding PhD Student Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida Travel Grants Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida Award for Cooperative Leadership in Teaching Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida Grinter Fellowship Graduate School Fellowship to facilitate the recruitment of truly exceptional graduate students to the University of Florida entering a Ph.D. program Award for Cooperative Leadership in Teaching Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida Visiting Student Scholarship University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Attended courses in Latin American- European Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies and the Department of History Erasmus-Lingua Exchange Programme National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Graduate Assistantship Department of Contemporary History, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada, Spain Scholarship

4 The Ministry of Education of Spain. Research and Publications Research interests Language contact, language use and attitudes, Spanish in the United States and Gibraltar, discourse analysis, acquisition and teaching of Spanish as a heritage and second language. Books 2013 Bilingüismo en Gibraltar: Inglés y Español [Bilingualism in Gibraltar] Publisher: Editorial Académica Española, Germany. ISBN-10: MESAS de Conversación: Spanish conversation manual. Submitted for consideration 2013 Audio-Cuentos. Collection of Spanish short stories written by NJCU Spanish majors. They will be recorded as audio-book and distributed to Jersey City Schools. In progress. Articles 2014 Perfil sociolingüístico de los aprendices de español como lengua de herencia en los Estados Unidos Revista Textos Mes de la Herencia Hispana: propuesta didáctica basada en el diseño inverso Boletín de ASELE (International Association of the Teaching of Spanish as Foreign Language) "El diseño inverso en la adquisición de una segunda lengua: su aplicación en el desarrollo de unidades temáticas" Revista electrónica de didáctica del español lengua extranjera 2013 El español como lengua de herencia en los EEUU: retos para su didáctica MarcoELE, Journal of Spanish Language Didactics El español en los Estados Unidos: Los marcadores del discurso, estado de la cuestión [Spanish in the USA and Discourse markers: State of the Field]. TonosDigital, Madrid The Teaching of Spanish heritage language: Overview of what we need to know as teachers. PORTA LINGUARUM, International Interuniversity Journal specialised in foreign language didactics Actitudes y Usos lingüísticos hacia el inglés y el español: estudiantes universitarios bilingües de la Florida. RæL-Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada Inglés y español en Gibraltar: usos y actitudes lingüísticas entre la población joven. Tonos Digital 1.

5 2010 El uso del articulo definido por parte de estudiantes estadounidenses: análisis de errores y explicación pedagógica. MarcoELE A sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish discourse marker COMO (like) in the oral narrative of Hispanic heritage speakers. Revista de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Volume 6 (2) A sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish discourse marker ENTONCES (so) in the oral narrative of Hispanic heritage speakers. Sociolinguistic Studies, Volume 2 (1): A sociolinguistic study of the use of the Spanish discourse marker TÚ SABES (you know) in the oral narrative of Hispanic heritage speakers. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Volume 26 (2): The acquisition of the Spanish definite article: Oral and written evidence. Revista de Español como Lengua Extranjera, 10: La enseñanza del discurso académico a estudiantes bilingües. Bilingual Research Journal, 29 (3). Reviewer Due to my expertise in Spanish in the US and Spanish as a Heritage Language. Book-chapter (30 pages) written by Dr. Sara M. Beatrice (the University of Arizona) Article: "Pues aquí, en la casa, se aprende el español": Spanish Literacy Development in a Texas Border Colonia"" for the Bilingual Research Journal. Work in progress The use of the Spanish discourse marker ES QUE. A sociolinguistic approach. Spanish and English in Jersey City: Language Use and Attitude Conferences, Seminars and Colloquia Academic Conference Papers 2014 How can we best not to teach but present Spanish Grammar for Real Communication? NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) The Teaching of Spanish as a Heritage Language. NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2012 The Teaching of Pragmatics in the Spanish Language Classroom: From Theory to Practice. NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2011 How Can We Help Our Students to Improve Their Spanish Language

6 Pronunciation? NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2011 Percepciones hacia los aprendices de español como lengua patrimonial: profesores de primaria y secundaria en el estado de Wisconsin [Wisconsin Teacher s belief and attitudes toward learners of Spanish a Heritage Language]. Congress of Spanish in the US / Spanish in Contact with other languages. University of California Davis Análisis discursivo del español cubano-americano. The 22 nd Conference on Spanish in the United States. Miami, February 19 th 21 st Estudio sociolingüístico del marcador del discurso entonces en el español hablado por jóvenes bilingües. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Texas at San Antonio, November 1 st -4 th Estudio sociolingüístico del marcador del discurso como en el español hablado por jóvenes bilingües. The 21 st Conference on Spanish in the United States. George Mason University, March 15 th 18 th "Actitudes y usos lingüísticos de jóvenes bilingües hacia el español en Florida: de los cuestionarios a la entrevista etnográfica. The 20 th Conference on Spanish in the United States. The University of Illinois at Chicago, March 24 th -26 th Spanish use among Spanish heritage speakers: Language maintenance or shift? First Graduate Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Hispanic Literatures, Languages and Cultures. University of Florida, October 13 th -14 th Los clíticos en el discurso oral de jóvenes bilingües en Florida: El español cubanoamericano". The 8 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Minnesota, October 15 th 17 th. Presentations 2010 Spanish language in the US. Language Workshop organized by NJCU FELA. March 30 th Spanish in the US: demystifying the myths. An invitation by the University of Florida Institute of Hispanic/Latino Culture La Casita. October 12 th ''La enseñanza del español a bilingües estadounidenses''. Instituto Cervantes USA (Inc.) New York, November 21 st La observación en al aula. Instituto Cervantes de Dublín, Ireland, April. Other presentations 2006 Do you have a Teaching Philosophy? Teaching Support Group of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Spring.

7 2005 "Find Out How You Teach". Teaching Support Group of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, February "Motivating and Unmotivating in the Foreign Language Classroom". Teaching Support Group of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, November "An Analysis of Language Use and Attitudes: Spanish and English in Gibraltar". Entre Nous seminar, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, October Favoritism, Unexpected Events in the Classroom, and Ego-Management". Teaching Support Group of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Spring. Workshops and Seminars Attended for Professional and Academic Development 2013 Developing and Assessing Students' Language Performance Workshop sponsored by FLENJ Annual Spring Conference. Two days workshop 2012 Assessment Down Pat: Planning for Performance and Transfer Workshop sponsored by FLENJ Introduction to SOPI (Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview). Workshop sponsored by FLENJ Annual Spring Conference Web-tools for Telling our Stories in the Digital Age: Classroom practices and activities. Workshop sponsored by FLENJ st Century Curriculum and Instruction: A Model Unit. Workshop sponsored by FLENJ 2011 Jornadas de formación centradas en la competencia digital docente en la enseñanza del ELE [Workshop on the Use of Digital Instruments in the Foreign Language Classroom]. Organized by Instituto Cervantes New York / Education Office of Spain Embassy in New York. October 29 th, 8:20: am to 4:45pm 2011 La pizarra digital interactiva (PDI): Pistas para optimizar su uso en el aula de español Smart Board in the Spanish language classroom. Organized by Instituto Cervantes New York 2010 El español popular de los EEUU como base para la expansión del conocimiento el español general entre hispanohablantes en los EEUU Instituto Cervantes New York. December 3 rd 2010 Jornadas de Formación en Evaluación [Workshop on Evaluation Instruments on Foreign Languages Teaching]. Organized by Instituto Cervantes New York / Education

8 Office of Spain Embassy in New York. October 23 rd 2010 Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) Familiarization Workshop. FLENJ Annual Spring Conference. April Forming Stories through Art, Imagination and Possibilities Language Learning and the Imagination Symposium New Jersey City University. April 30 th 2009 XVI Seminar on Teacher Preparation for World Languages: The 2009 Core Curriculum Content Standard for World Languages Middlesex County College, New Jersey, October 30 th Website Development Presented by CITI / Academic Computing, New Jersey City University, October 8 th Multimedia on the Cheap: integrate audio and video in your class or class project, Presented by CITI / Academic Computing, New Jersey City University, October 7 th Creating portfolios, pdfs and forms with Adobe Acrobat Presented by CITI / Academic Computing, New Jersey City University, October 2 nd ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Familiarization Workshop. Sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Wisconsin. April 4 th 2008 Modified Oral Proficiency Interview (MOPI). Sponsored by the Wisconsin Association of Language Teachers. November 6 th Connecting MOPI to the Classroom. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Association of Language Teachers. November 7 th Connecting Your Classroom to the Heritage Language Community. Sponsored by National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at the University of California- Los Angeles, May 16 th -17 th The Role of Grammar in the Communicative Classroom" by Dr. Sharon Foster. Organized by McGraw-Hill World Languages Professional Development Workshop at the University of Florida, February 25 th Foreign Language Testing Workshop by Dr. Catherine M. Barrette, Wayne State University. Workshop funded by The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the University Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Florida, August 21 st -22 nd Teaching Languages and Technology. Organized by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Language Laboratory Division, University of Florida, November.

9 2003 VI Curso de Formación de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera, organized by the Instituto Cervantes USA (Inc.) and The Spanish Office of Education. New York, June 20 th -21 st Learning Strategies in the Classes of Spanish as Foreign Language. Meeting organized by the Irish Department of Education and the Irish Association of Spanish Teachers, November The Use of the Internet and Computers in the Classroom Context. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, March. Service to the University, the Community, and the Field Present Committee Member of NJCU College of Arts & Science Honors Program Search and Screen Committee for an Assistant Professor of Political Sciences. NJCU Search and Screen Committee for an Assistant Professor of Arabic-French for the Modern Languages Department. NJCU Search and Screen Committee for an Assistant Professor of Honors Program. NJCU Representing the Modern Languages Department at the Special Registration Drive 2013 Spring Open House 2013 Presenter of WE STILL LIVE HERE: AS NUTAYUNEAN a film documentary for the International Film Festival Advisor for the Golden Key International Honor Society Presenter of The Linguistis: confronting the institutional and racist forces behind silencing certain languages a film documentary for the International Film Festival 2011 Fall Open House Member of the Working Group for NJCU Community Connection Present Member of the Election Senate Committee 2010 Presenter of First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language a film documentary for the International Film Festival 2010 Spring Open House 2010 Presenter of Speaking in Tongues a film documentary for the International Film Festival.

10 2010/2012 Department Representative at the University Senate General Studies Working Group on Interdisciplinary Issues Recognition Award Working Group Course Evaluation Instrument Committee. 2009/2010 Alternate Senator to Professor Barugel at the University Senate Present Editor of Voces Latinas, NJCU Modern Languages Student Journal 2008 Search and Screen Committee for an Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies/Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Organizer of the 2 nd Forum for the Study Abroad Programs in Latin America and Spain. February. Sponsored by the International Education Office, The Spanish Club and the Spanish Program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Organizer of the 1 st Forum for the Study Abroad Programs in Latin America and Spain. February. Sponsored by the International Education Office, The Spanish Club and the Spanish Program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Session Chair for the 21 st Conference on Spanish in the United States. George Mason University, March 15 th 18 th 2007 Committee member for The Ethnic Studies and World Culture domain, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Committee member for the Modern Language Fleurant Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies/Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. 2006/07 Committee member of Search and Screen Committee for Lecturer of Humanistic Studies/Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Committee member for The Crandall/Daniels Scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Interpreter. Quechua people and culture in Ecuador. Lecture organized by Dr. Marcelo Cruz, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay WPR (Wisconsin Public radio) La Voz Hispana. Interviewed to talk about Spanish in the United States, September Session Chair. First Graduate Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Hispanic Literatures, Languages and Cultures. University of Florida, October 13 th -14 th.

11 2003 International Volunteer: Duties: welcoming, orienting and catering for the needs of assisting new international students at the University of Florida, Office of International Student Services, Summer. Administrative experience 2009-present New Jersey City University Advisor for about one third of our Spanish Majors. Coordinator the Elementary Spanish courses LANG 103 and 104. Adjunct faculty visitations and evaluations University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Co-adviser: student advising in close contact with Professor Cristina Ortiz, University of Wisconsin- Green Bay. Revision of textbooks for the Spanish general language courses , University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Oral proficiency interview (OPI) for teaching certification requirements, University of Wisconsin- Green Bay. Director of the Language Lab ( ), University of Wisconsin-green Bay Other Professional Experience 1999 Context Translations and Interpreting Services Simultaneous Interpreter English-to- Spanish at the conference Islands of Poverty. Euro-Seminar, sponsored by the European Union. Galway, Ireland, November Language Assistant. University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Duties: updating different sections of the Language Laboratory as well as collaborating with laboratory users, Summer Radio Broadcaster in several radio stations in Spain (Melilla and Granada). Professional Associations Linguistic Association of the Southwest Modern Language Association (MLA) Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (FLENJ) Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)

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