Innovation in Language Learning
Angela George
Institution: University of Calgary
Country: Canada
Angela George is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.
Angela earned her PhD in 2013 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN (USA) where she specialized in Hispanic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Her dissertation, titled “The development of Castilian dialectal features during a semester abroad in Toledo, Spain”, investigated the development of regional features of the Spanish of North-Central Spain by university learners of Spanish. She attributed various social and individual variables to the use and non-use of the three features under study.
From 2013-2016, Angela was an Assistant Professor of Spanish and of Foreign Language Education at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA (USA). She coordinated the undergraduate foreign language education program while teaching and researching both Spanish and foreign language pedagogy. She published her research in prominent journals such as the Foreign Language Annals. Her research focuses were the acquisition of variable features, the teaching of heritage language learners, and the use of technology in the classroom. She also participated a funded initiative labelled “Foreign Languages Research Priorities Project” from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages where she investigated communities of practice by novice teachers when observing expert teachers.
Angela then became an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Calgary, where she currently resides. In this position, Angela continued her research, teaching, service and leadership in both Spanish and Education. In the three years since she has been in this position, she published 9 articles in various peer-reviewed journals, including Spanish in Context, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, Heritage Language Journal, and Special Issue of Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Second language teaching and generative linguistics. She presented her research 14 times at both regional and international conferences including the Second Language Research Forum, the American Association of Applied Linguistics, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics. Additionally, she provided various pedagogical workshops for instructors and graduate instructors of second languages. She also continues to serve as a university liaison for the Alberta Consortium of Spanish teachers.
Areas of expertise: Second language acquisition, Second language pedagogy, Hispanic linguistics, Teaching with technology, Sociolinguistics, Heritage language learner pedagogy, Heritage language learner acquisition, Acquisition of Spanish
Angela earned her PhD in 2013 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN (USA) where she specialized in Hispanic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Her dissertation, titled “The development of Castilian dialectal features during a semester abroad in Toledo, Spain”, investigated the development of regional features of the Spanish of North-Central Spain by university learners of Spanish. She attributed various social and individual variables to the use and non-use of the three features under study.
From 2013-2016, Angela was an Assistant Professor of Spanish and of Foreign Language Education at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA (USA). She coordinated the undergraduate foreign language education program while teaching and researching both Spanish and foreign language pedagogy. She published her research in prominent journals such as the Foreign Language Annals. Her research focuses were the acquisition of variable features, the teaching of heritage language learners, and the use of technology in the classroom. She also participated a funded initiative labelled “Foreign Languages Research Priorities Project” from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages where she investigated communities of practice by novice teachers when observing expert teachers.
Angela then became an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Calgary, where she currently resides. In this position, Angela continued her research, teaching, service and leadership in both Spanish and Education. In the three years since she has been in this position, she published 9 articles in various peer-reviewed journals, including Spanish in Context, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, Heritage Language Journal, and Special Issue of Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Second language teaching and generative linguistics. She presented her research 14 times at both regional and international conferences including the Second Language Research Forum, the American Association of Applied Linguistics, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics. Additionally, she provided various pedagogical workshops for instructors and graduate instructors of second languages. She also continues to serve as a university liaison for the Alberta Consortium of Spanish teachers.
Areas of expertise: Second language acquisition, Second language pedagogy, Hispanic linguistics, Teaching with technology, Sociolinguistics, Heritage language learner pedagogy, Heritage language learner acquisition, Acquisition of Spanish
