| Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Southern California, 1996. Areas of interest are sociolinguistics, minority languages and bilingualism. She is interested in second language acquisition, and the acquisition of narrative discourse strategies by bilingual children. Within the area of applied linguistics, she is interested in the study of development of discourse strategies in the L2 classroom. Publications include The Use of the Past Tense in the Narratives of Bilingual Children: The Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions, Spanish in the U.S., Ana Roca; Editor, (2000). "The Proficiency Continuum in Quechua-Spanish Bilingual Speakers: An Analysis of the Verbal Clitic System," Journal of Southwestern Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 1, (2001). Director of the Spanish Language Program Education:
- PhD in Spanish Linguistics University of Southern California, 1996
- Masters in Linguistics State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990
- BA in Linguistics Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 1989
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistic aspects of Bilingualism, Bilingualism in the Andes, Languages in contact, Spanish in the USA, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Instruction, Testing and Assessment Recent Publications
- L. Paredes. "The Implications of the authentic text." forthcoming volume on Electronic Discourse for language learning and teaching. Ed. Lee, Abraham and Lawrence Williams. John Benjamins,
Accepted, Fall, 2008. [abs]
- with J. Camacho, L. Sánchez. "The genitive clitic and the genitive construction in Andean Spanish." Clitics, Pronouns and Movement Ed. James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane. John Benjamins, 1997.
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