Associate Professor of Spanish and Foreign Language Education
Porter 214B
Phone: (219) 989-2647
velezre@calumet.purdue.edu
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, Foreign Language Education, 2000
M.S., Purdue University, Foreign Language Education, 1990
B.A., Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia), Foreign Languages, 1984
Teaching/Research Specialties
Spanish language courses, Spanish for native speakers, Foreign language methods.
Selected Publications
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Articles in refereed journals
- “Identity negotiation in the workplace: Shifting between imposed, assumed and negotiable identities.” ISLS Volume 3 of Readings in Language Studies. Forthcoming.
- “From social identity to professional identity: Issues of language and gender.” Foreign Language Annals. 2010.
- ‘Trayectorias bilingües: Desafíos en la construcción de identidades entre inmigrantes hispanas.” Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana. 2007.
- “La construcción de identidades: El caso de universitarias hispanas inmigrantes en el contexto estadounidense.” Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística. 2006.
- “From student to teacher: A successful transition.”Foreign Language Annals, 2006.
- “Las autobiografías lingüísticas: Una propuesta metodológica para el desarrollo de la lecto-escritura de los alumnos hispanohablantes.” Hispania, 2005.
- “Student or teacher: Tensions faced by a Spanish language student teacher.” Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2003.
- “English in Colombia: A sociolinguistic profile”. World Englishes, 2003.
- “Learning to teach Spanish: A case study.” Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 2002.
- “Second language teacher education: A review of the literature.” Foreign Language Annals, 2002.
Book chapters
Silva, T., Reichelt, M., Chikuma, Y., Duval-Couetil, N. Mo, R.P., G., and Wood, S & Vélez-Rendón, G. “Second language writing up close and personal: Some success stories.” In B. Kroll (Ed.), Exploring Second Language Writing: Issues for teachers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Other publications
- Delicado, G. & Vélez-Rendón. “The key to a successful study abroad program: Experiential learning and blogs”. IFTLA News Online, 2012.
- “Entre el origen y la diáspora: Claves para la vida transnacional.” Revista Contratiempo, 2006.
- Lee, J., Moore, Z. Pinnock, G. & Vélez, G. Español para la vida Book 4. Surrey, England: Nelson Thornes Ltd, 2002.
- Moore, Z. & Vélez, G. Español para la vida: Workbook 3. Surrey, England: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1995.
Languages
Spanish, English and some French.
Research Interests
Learning how to teach foreign languages, issues related to Spanish heritage students, sociolinguistics, literacy narratives.
Courses Taught
Span 101-202 Spanish Levels I-IV
Span 261 Basic Spanish Composition
Span 313 Spanish for Native Speakers
Span 365 Spanish Conversation
Span 408 Spanish Internship
Span 515 Advanced Spanish Composition
Span 590A Technology and Culture
EDCI 342 Strategies of Foreign Language Instruction
EDCI 498D Supervised Teach Sec. Foreign Languages
