Guest Lecture by Dr. Del Barrio de la Rosa, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Lexical Availability and Spanish as a Foreign/Second Language

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM EST
Johnson Center, #239 / Freshman Center

Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Valladolid (Spain) with a dissertation on diachronic syntax. He has taught at universities in Spain, Italy, Germany, and China. Since January 2015, he is Associate Professor of Spanish Language at “Ca’ Foscari” Univesity of Venice. He has authored Ejercicios de Lexicología del Español (Lincom, 2014) and several articles and book chapters about historical linguistics of Spanish, contrastive grammar, Spanish American varieties and Spanish as Foreign Language. His main research interests are language variation and change in Spanish, as well as comparative grammar.

Dr. Del Barrio de la Rosa will talk about Lexical Availability and Spanish as a Foreign Language. Studies on Lexical Availability provide us with valuable insights in vocabulary teaching planning. This lecture intends to show how this kind of research on vocabulary may contribute in many ways to the teaching / learning of Spanish, as well as increase our knowledge of the organization of the mental lexicon, the storage and retrieving of words and the influence of psycho-social factors, attitudes and motivation on vocabulary learning.

(Lecture will be in Spanish)