Eva Rodríguez-González
- Associate Professor
- Coordinator of Spanish as a Second Language Program
- Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor Eva Rodríguez-González received an appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico in 2014. Currently she is the coordinator of the Spanish as a Second Language Program at UNM, and also teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her classes have focused on basic linguistic knowledge, classroom-based research as a method, the fundamental principles of effective Spanish language instruction, and other topics. Rodríguez-González specializes in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and foreign language pedagogy. Her main areas of research are classroom-based language learning, and cognitive approaches to language acquisition.
Education
- PHD in Linguistics, University of Kansas (2006)
- MA in Linguistics, University of Kansas (2003)
- Diploma on Advances Studies in English Linguistics, Universities of Santiago de Compostela/A Coruña and Vigo (1999)
Research Areas
- Second Language Acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism
- Foreign Language Pedagogy
Latin American Studies Courses
- SPAN 351 Intro Spanish Linguistics
- SPAN 549 Seminar: Language Learning Research Methods
- SPAN 541 Research on Teaching Spanish
*Latin America-related courses offered during the past three years*